Klaus Vondung is Professor Emeritus in German Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. His research and teaching abroad include a Visiting Scholarship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Visiting Professorships at the University of Florida, Gainesville, the University of Houston, Kansai University, Suita/Osaka, and KwanseiGakuin University, Nishinomiya. He is permanent Honorary Guest Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.    In addition to numerous books and articles in German, in English he has published the book  The Apocalypse in Germany (2000), edited   in the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, and is the author of many articles in journals and essay volumes.