This site is the site of Erwin Ochsenmeier (a.k.a. me).
It has gone through several phases. It started as a place to put some of my material in Religious studies. After a change of career, it was mainly dedicated to Language acquisition. As I have now been working for the Université Catholique de Louvain for a number of years, I use our Moodle platform for that content. I have therefore decided to start using this site for religious studies material as of the Fall of 2015.
Of course, the views expressed on this site are solely my own and do not represent those of my employer or any affiliated organization. Content is provided for informational purposes only, without liability for errors or omissions.
Bio
I was born in Belgium from a Belgian Dutch speaking mother and a German father. My mother was from the north of Ypres (Belgium), my father had emigrated from Munich (Germany) after WWII with his mom. I think most of the Ochsenmeiers are still in Bavaria and related one way or the other to each other. I grew up speaking French. I took English and Spanish at university and spent a couple of summers during my studies in the UK (Southampton and Lincoln) and in Spain (Málaga and Burgos). I then studied theology in Belgium, the USA and France where I got my Ph.D..
Besides Brussels, I have lived in the USA (Denver and Atlanta) and had a “green card” for about 10 years. I worked as a network manager in Atlanta (USA) and as a translator part time or full time for about ten years, mostly in the technical and computer fields, both in the USA and in Belgium. We speak English at home but raised our kids in French and English.
Though I had been teaching on and off since the late 1980s, about ten years ago I decided to get a teaching degree (in Dutch) with a focus on modern languages. I now teach English at the UCL-Université Saint-Louis in Brussels where I am also a member of the Commission of the School of Religion of the Saint-Louis campus. A while ago I also wrote a NT Greek course in French.
For more information on my career, see my LinkedIn profile.
My hobbies and interests besides work are IT stuff, literature and languages, anything that has to do with the USA, the UK and Germany, biking, playing guitar, cooking and photography now and then.
In addition to languages, I also keep on working on exegetical issues in the New Testament and have been working for a number of years on political and public theology, focusing, among others, on Thomas Hobbes and Sören Kierkegaard.