Dissertation §6
- 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 (§6.1 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. theol.) must satisfy scholarly standards and contribute to the solution of scholarly inquiries. It must be the independent work of the applicant and must be portrayed in the appropriate form. 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 and must satisfy the demands of Sentence 1.
- It is acceptable that the dissertation (§6.2 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. theol.), in whole or in part, has been published previously.
- The dissertation (§6.3 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study, Dr. theol.) 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. In this case, the applicant must provide a detailed summary in German.
- The form (§6.4 of the Regulations for Doctoral Study) of the title page (Homepage) must correspond to the model provided by the faculty. The applicant’s curriculum vitae must be provided on the last page.