Michal Valčo

He was born in 1976 in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. He has been happily married since 1996 with Katarina and has two children – Marek and Magdalena. He received his master of divinity studies at the Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University (LTF CU), Bratislava, during the course of which he spent the fall semester of 1999 at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. His doctoral studies were completed in 2005 at the Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava [Dissertation Thesis: The Sources and Meaning of Martin Chemnitz’s Christology in his Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper]. He received his habilitation in the area of religious studies at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty of Prešov University in Prešov, Slovakia (March 2013) [Habilitation Thesis: The Apologetic and Ecumenical Potential of Luther’s Theological-Religious Emphases]. In the Fall semester of 2010 he became a Copenhaver Visiting Scholar at Roanoke College, Salem, VA. Two years later, he and his wife became visiting Professors of Religion at Roanoke College between August 2012 – May 2013. In August 2015, he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria. In 2014-16 he served as Head of Department of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, where he held the position of Associate Professor of Religious Studies. As of September 2016, he became member of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the same Faculty. In February 2017 he became an employer of the Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia, where he held the position of head of the Department of General and Applied Ethics (until May 2018). Between 2018 and 2019, he worked as a research professor at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Presov in Presov in the field of Religious Studies. His current employer is Comenius University in Bratislava, the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty. His main areas of academic interests are philosophy of Religion (especially S. Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer), the theology of Martin Luther and Leonard Stöckel, the situation of the churches under and after Communism, and current issues in theological/philosophical ethics. Important monographic publications: The 1861 Slovak National Gathering in Turc. St. Martin: Theological Aspects of the Memorandum Events and their Legacy for Today (2012)
Supervisors: Paul Hinlicky
Phone: +421918487939
Address: Záborie č. 70
03803 Sklabiňa
Slovakia