Studied Latin and Greek Philology, Medieval Latin Philology, and German Language and Literature at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Awarded a Dr. phil. in Latin Philology in 2000 in Jena. Intern and research assistant at the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar from 2000 to 2005; research associate at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2005 to 2007; research associate at the University of Zurich from 2007 to 2021; since , research associate at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Co-editorship

Masters, Disciples, Rebels. Following and Dissent (akolouthēsis and enantiōsis) Through the Ages. Dedicated to Meinolf Vielberg on his 65th birthday. Edited by Oliver Ehlen, Roderich Kirchner, Judith Steiniger, and Christian Tornau, Tübingen 2024 (Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature 2).

Correspondence Among Theologians in Southwest Germany: Insights into Church and Cultural History. In Honor of Christoph Strohm on His 65th Birthday, edited by Marcel Böhme, Max Graff, and Judith Steiniger, Heidelberg 2023.

Contributions to Editions

Correspondence Among Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550–1620). Critical Selected Edition, Volume 3: Strasbourg I (1549–1577), edited by Christoph Strohm, compiled by Stefan Aderhold, Sabine Arend, Marcel Böhme, Stephen E. Buckwalter, Daniel Degen, Gerald Dörner, Max Graff, Judith Steiniger, and Thomas Wilhelmi (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 109), Gütersloh 2024.

Correspondence Among Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550–1620). Critical Selected Edition, Volume 2: The Electoral Palatinate I (1556–1583), edited by Christoph Strohm, compiled by Stefan Aderhold, Sabine Arend, Marcel Böhme, Stephen E. Buckwalter, Daniel Degen, Gerald Dörner, Max Graff, Judith Steiniger, and Thomas Wilhelmi (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation 99), Gütersloh 2022.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 20. Letters from April through December 1547. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Yvonne Häfner, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2022.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 19. Letters from January through March 1547. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2019.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 18. Letters from October through December 1546. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2017.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 17. Letters from June through September 1546. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2015.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 16. Letters from January through May 1546. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2014.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 15. Letters from the Year 1545. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2013.

The Works of Heinrich Bullinger. Part Two. Correspondence. Published on behalf of the Zwingli Society of Zurich by the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 14. Letters from the Year 1544. Edited by Reinhard Bodenmann, Rainer Henrich, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger, Zurich 2011.

Melanchthon’s Correspondence. A Critical and Annotated Complete Edition. Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Heinz Scheible on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities . Volume T 9. Texts 2336–2604 (1540). Edited by Christine Mundhenk with the collaboration of Marion Bechtold, Heidi Hein, Simone Kurz, and Judith Steiniger, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2008.

Melanchthon’s Correspondence. A Critical and Annotated Complete Edition. Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Heinz Scheible on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities . Volume T 8. Texts 1980–2335 (1538–1539). Edited by Christine Mundhenk, Heidi Hein, and Judith Steiniger, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2007.

Melanchthon’s Correspondence. A Critical and Annotated Complete Edition. Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Heinz Scheible on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities . Volume T 7. Texts 1684–1979 (1536–1537). Edited by Christine Mundhenk with the assistance of Heidi Hein and Judith Steiniger, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2006.

Doctoral Dissertation

P. Papinius Statius, *Thebais*. Commentary on Book 4, 1–344. Stuttgart 2005. Surviving reviews: *Forum Classicum* 3 (2006), 224f. (Hans-Ulrich Berner); *Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft* 49 (2006), 33–39 (Werner Schubert); Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Nov. 26, 2006) (Gianpiero Rosati); *Grazer Beiträge* 25 (2006), 293–296 (Gesine Manuwald); *Revue des Études Latines* 84 (2006), 321 (Sylvie Franchet d’Espèrey); Emerita 75 (2007), 168–171 (Cecilia Criado); L'Antiquité Classique 76 (2007), 342f. (Pol Tordeur); *Museum Helveticum* 64 (2007), 246f. (Valéry Berlincourt); *Latomus* 67 (2008), 516 (Anne-Marie Taisne).

Recent Articles (published in 2023 or later)

Germaniae lumen. The Strasbourg humanist Johannes Sturm as a prime example for the Jena scholar Friedrich Andreas Hallbauer, in: Masters, Disciples, Rebels. Succession and Contradiction (akolouthēsis and enantiōsis) Through the Ages. Edited by Oliver Ehlen, Roderich Kirchner, Judith Steiniger, and Christian Tornau, Tübingen 2024 (Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature 2), pp. 227–241.

Bodenmann, Reinhard, and Steiniger, Judith: “Bilingual Polemical Poems from the Time of the Schmalkaldic War (1546/47)—Heinrich Bullinger—Kaspar Gräter—Johannes Hoffmeister,” in: Zeitschrift für bayerische Kirchengeschichte 92 (2023), pp. 1–58.

Lincicum, David/Steiniger, Judith: “The Poetry of Ferdinand Christian Baur: Three Poems from the Nachlass,” in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 134, Issue 1 (2023), pp. 66–84.

New Year’s Greetings to Strasbourg. A poetic letter from Wilhelm Bidembach to Johannes Marbach dated 1568, in: Correspondence Among Theologians in Southwest Germany: Insights into Church and Cultural History. In Honor of Christoph Strohm on His 65th Birthday, ed. by Marcel Böhme, Max Graff, and Judith Steiniger, Heidelberg 2023, pp. 161–175.

Translation

Calvin Critical Edition. Edited by Eberhard Busch, Matthias Freudenberg, Alasdair Heron, Christian Link, Peter Opitz, Ernst Saxer, and Hans Scholl. Volume 8. Ecumenical Correspondence. A Selection from Calvin’s Letters. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011. – Contents: 1. Calvin—A Reformation Profile (edited by Judith Steiniger). pp. 17–46. – 2. Turmoil in Geneva (edited by Judith Steiniger). pp. 47–83.

Reviews

including in *Zwingliana*; *Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique*. Louvain Journal of Church History.

Database

Weimar Classical Foundation, Goethe and Schiller Archive (ed.): Complete Inventory of Manuscripts of Goethe's Works, online database. Edited by Jürgen Gruß, Silke Henke, and Judith Steiniger.

Presentations (selection)

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute for Classical Studies (October 27, 2018), Colloquium Aevum sempiternum. The Enduring Legacy of Antiquity in Pagan and Christian Contexts. Symposium in Honor of Meinolf Vielberg on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday: “Plagiarism and Quotations: Observations in the Latin Works of Ortensio Lando.”

University of Zurich, Faculty of Theology, Society for Church History (November 2012): “The Humanist Ortensio Lando and His Early Latin Works.”

European Melanchthon Academy in Bretten, conference “Cicero in the Early Modern Period” (October 2011): “Cicero’s Influence on Ortensio Lando’s *Forcianae Quaestiones* (Lyon, 1535).”

Johannes a Lasco Library, Emden, 8th Conference on the History of Reformed Protestantism (March 21, 2011): “‘In periculosissimis istis temporibus.’ Heinrich Bullinger’s Correspondence as an Important Source for 16th-Century History.”

University of Basel, 2nd Swiss History Days, panel "Victims and Overcomers of Confessional Boundaries in the 16th Century" (February 6, 2010): "Ortensio Lando: An 'irregolare' and 'capriccioso' Between Catholicism and the Reformation."

[with Dr. Alexandra Kess-Hall:] University of Basel, 2nd Swiss History Conference, panel “Source Editions—Forms and Functions in the Current Transformation of Historical Scholarship” (February 5, 2010): “From the Work on the Edition of Heinrich Bullinger’s Correspondence.”