Reelected on Friday at the head of the University of Strasbourg (Unistra), the only public university with two theological faculties, Catholic and Protestant, with 30 votes, 3 draws and 3 abstentions, Michel Deneken, 63, noted that
"this crisis had brought together ”
the members of the board of directors.
A way of recalling, with sobriety, the controversies that accompanied, at the end of 2016, his arrival at the head of the institution.
For the first time, a priest assumed the presidency of a university.
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No Roman collar, no cross, even discreet.
Nothing distinguishes this theologian from his colleagues.
Four years ago, he had not expected the attacks triggered by his assumption of the presidency.
“It was not at my age that I was going to start a career as an Ayatollah!” He
quips.
All the more astonished since there had been no reaction after his appointment as professor of the universities of the Faculty of Catholic Theology, created in 1902 within the Imperial German University by
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