Studied Medieval and Modern Latin Philology, Classical Philology, and German Language and Literature in Göttingen.

1995: Ph.D. with the dissertation *The 'Occultus Erfordensis' by Nicolaus von Bibra: A Critical Edition and Commentary*(see below).

Employee since 2001; director of the Melanchthon Research Center at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since .

since , editor of Melanchthon's Correspondence ( see below).

Editions:

Melanchthon’s Correspondence, Academy of Sciences and Humanities on behalf of Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Heinz Scheible / (from vol. T 11 onward) Christine Mundhenk, 22 vols. (T 5 ff.), edited in collaboration with Walter Thüringer (T 5), Roxane Wartenberg, and Richard Wetzel (T 6),  Heidi Hein (T 7 ff), Judith Steiniger (T 7–9), Marion Bechtold (T 9 and 10), Simone Kurz (T 9–11), Matthias Dall'Asta (T 10 ff), and Regine Klar (T 23–26). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 2003 ff.

Nicolaus von Bibra’s *Occultus Erfordensis*: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Commentary, and German Translation. Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1997 (Publications of the Society for the History and Archaeology of Erfurt) (Doctoral dissertation).

Publishing: 

Melanchthon’s Correspondence, commissioned by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 2010 ff. (Vol. 13 ff. and Vol. T 11 ff.).

Philipp Melanchthon in 100 Personal Letters, translated and edited in collaboration with Matthias Dall'Asta and Heidi Hein. Göttingen: V&R 2017.  

Philipp Melanchthon in 16th-Century Epistolary Culture, edited in collaboration with Matthias Dall'Asta and Heidi Hein. Heidelberg: Winter 2015 (Akademiekonferenzen 19).  

Contributions to anthologies: 

Give and Take: Gifts and Tokens of Friendship in Melanchthon’s Correspondence. In: The Culture of Letter-Writing in the Reformation Era, ed. Johannes Schilling. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2023, pp. 135–152.

Philipp Melanchthon’s Relations with Hungary and Transylvania as Reflected in Networks and Correspondence. In: Journal of Early Modern Christianity 8/1 (2021), pp. 103–118. – Also in: *Initia Reformationis Transilvaniae: Diversity, New Beginnings, and Spaces of Reception in the Early Modern Period*, ed. by Ulrich A. Wien. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2025 (Studies of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe 2), pp. 349–364.

Friedrich Myconius’s Relations with the Wittenberg Theologians. In: Friedrich Myconius (1490–1546). From Franciscan to Reformer, ed. by Daniel Gehrt and Kathrin Paasch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2020 (Gothaer Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 15), pp. 73–87.

Melanchthon Has a Problem with Epidemics. In: Athene. Heidelberg Journal of the Sciences 1/2020, p. 18 ff.

Protestant Epistolary Culture: Philipp Melanchthon. In: Handbook of the Letter: From the Early Modern Period to the Present, edited by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig, Jörg Schuster, Gesa Steinbrink, and Jochen Strobel. Berlin: de Gruyter 2020, pp. 683–691.

Farewell to the Charioteer. Melanchthon’s Writings on Luther’s Death. In: Luther’s Death: Event and Impact, ed. by Armin Kohnle. Leipzig: EVA 2019 (Publications of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt 23), pp. 159–175.

Philipp Melanchthon in 100 Personal Letters, translated and edited in collaboration with Matthias Dall'Asta and Heidi Hein. Göttingen: V&R 2017.  

Johannes Mathesius and Philipp Melanchthon. In: Johannes Mathesius (1504–1565). Reception and Dissemination of the Wittenberg Reformation through Sermons and Exegesis, ed. by Armin Kohnle and Irene Dingel. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2017 (Leucorea Studies on the History of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy 30), pp. 85–102.

Chapter “Lifeand Letters” in: Philipp Melanchthon. The Reformer Between Faith and Knowledge. A Handbook, edited by Günter Frank in collaboration with Axel Lange. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2017 (De Gruyter Reference), pp. 25–42 and 303–319.

Articles “Melanchthon as a Ghostwriter,” “A Problem Shared Is a Problem Halved,” and “A Girl Stands Her Ground”in: *Manu propria – Mit eigener Hand*. 95 Autographs from the Reformation Era, edited by Jana Kocourek and Hans-Peter Hasse. Markkleeberg: Sax-Verlag 2017, p. 130 ff., no. 59; p. 138 ff., no. 63; and p. 144 ff., no. 66.

Between Praise and Criticism: Melanchthon’s Remarks on the Elder Luther. In: Philipp Melanchthon in the Epistolary Culture of the 16th Century, ed. by Matthias Dall’Asta, Heidi Hein, and Ch. M. Heidelberg: Winter 2015 (Akademiekonferenzen 19), pp. 131–145.

Protestant Order in Catholic Bohemia: Johannes Mathesius’s Regulations for the Church, Schools, and Hospitals. In: Regulations for the Church—Impact on the World. Protestant Church Regulations of the 16th Century, edited by Sabine Arend and Gerald Dörner. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015 (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation 84), pp. 291–309.

Article:Örtel von Windsheim, Veit.In: The Early Modern Period in Germany, 1520–1620. Literary Encyclopedia of Authors, ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann et al., vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015, cols. 625–635.

Bucer’s Relationship with Luther and Melanchthon. In: Martin Bucer between the Imperial Diets of Augsburg (1530) and Regensburg (1532). Contributions to the Geography, Theology, and Prosopography of the Reformation, ed. by Wolfgang Simon. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011, pp. 205–216.

Reform Stagnation and Political Disenchantment. Melanchthon’s Letters from the Regensburg Diet of 1541. In: Philipp Melanchthon. Teacher of Germany, Reformer of Europe, ed. by Irene Dingel and Armin Kohnle. Leipzig: EVA 2011 (Leucorea Studies on the History of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy 13), pp. 51–63.

Rhetoric and Poetry in Philipp Melanchthon’s Educational System. In: Luther Yearbook 78 (2011), 251–275.