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Heiner Bielefeldt

Professor Heiner Bielefeldt, born 1958, comes from the Rhineland region of Germany. After studying philosophy, theology, and history at Bonn and Tübingen, he taught at various universities in Germany and other countries. He gained his doctorate and habilitation in philosophy. From 2003 to 2009, Bielefeldt was the director of the German Institute for Human Rights in Berlin. Since 2009 he has held the Chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Concurrently from 2010 to 2016 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.

heiner.bielefeldt@fau.de

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