Luise Schottroff

Luise Schottroff (11 April 1934 – 8 February 2015) was a German New Testament and feminist scholar. She was born in Berlin, Germany, and her father was a pastor in the Confessing Church. Schottroff studied theology at the University of Mainz, and then pursued a doctorate at the University of Göttingen, completing her degree in 1960. Her dissertation was entitled, "Die Bereitung zum Sterben: Studien zu den frühen reformatorischen Sterbebüchern." and Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity. She co-authored, with Marie-Theres Wacker and Silvia Schroer, Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective, which was published in 1998.

She married Willy Schottroff, an Old Testament scholar, in 1961.