Academic Education
since 2020	Study of Sociology (1-subject BA)
2017 - 2022	Catholic theology at the WWU Münster (Mag. Theol.) Thesis: "Therefore special care is required with Jewish catechumens" The baptism of Romanian Jews during the Shoah.
Work Experience
since 04/2023	Research assistant in the project EXC 2060 A3-37 - Pope Pius XII and baptised Jews in Romania and Brazil
2019 - 2023	Student assistant at the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History on the DFG project "Critical online edition of the nunciature reports of Eugenio Pacelli (1917-1929)" and "Asking the Pope for Help. Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime in the Sources of the Vatican."
2018 - 2019	Student assistant at the library in the Philosophikum

Duration: 01/04/2023 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Sonderrolle Rumänien? Zu den Möglichkeiten der Apostolischen Nuntien, Katholiken jüdischer Herkunft während der Shoah zu helfen. Ein Werkstattbericht König, Lorena (22/11/2024) 38.Jahrestagung des Schwerter Arbeitskreises für Katholizismusforschung, Schwerte Type of talk: scientific talk
Rome's unloved children? Political Catholicism between Revolution, Empire and Weimar Republic (1791-1933) Kempe, Maik Henning; König, Lorena; Renner, Robert; Neumann, Michael; Pfister, Michael; Wolf, Hubert (05/07/2019) Mitten in dieser Welt. Politisches Handeln der katholischen Christen in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster Type of talk: scientific talk

[Working title] Romania as a special case? The treatment of Catholics of Jewish origin by the Vatican and European states during the Shoah.
Candidate: König, Lorena | Supervisors: Wolf, Hubert Schüller, Thomas
Period of time: 07/10/2024 - today
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster