Dissertation §9
- The Council of the Faculty of Protestant Theology determined on 15 March 2013 that the written dissertation may not exceed 300 pages (DIN A4 VG Wort; this corresponds to 653,400 characters); this includes footnotes/endnotes. The Doctoral Studies Board will make the decision concerning any exception to this rule.
- The dissertation (§9.1 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. phil.) must be a materially coherent, independent work of the applicant, must be portrayed in the appropriate form, and must contribute to the solution of scholarly inquiries. If the dissertation was produced in conjunction with communal research, then the individual achievements of the applicant must be clearly marked as such and must be able to be evaluated as such.
- It is acceptable that the dissertation (§9.2 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. phil.), in whole or in part, has been published previously.
- The dissertation (§9.3 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. phil.) is, as a general rule, to be composed in the German language. The Doctoral Studies Board may allow the applicant to submit a dissertation composed in another language, provided that compelling reasons for this exist.