Wilhelm Baum

Wilhelm Baum (born 1948 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German-Austrian historian, theologian, philosopher and publisher.

Biography Wilhelm Baum studied history, German language, and theology in Innsbruck, Rome, Mainz and Tübingen (two of his professors were Ernst Bloch and Hans Küng). In 1971 he became a doctor of philosophy and in 1999 a doctor of theology at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. In 1995, he taught medieval history at the University of Klagenfurt and in Graz.

Baum who lives in Klagenfurt, Austria, is the head of the publishing house Kitab-Verlag, which he founded in 1999. He's a PEN club member.