Denis Kitzinger

Biography

Dr. Denis Kitzinger holds a PhD in modern intellectual history from St. Andrews University in Scotland. He is a native of Flörsheim, Germany. In his youth and early adulthood, Dr. Kitzinger spent much time on the soccer field, an occupation that earned him a full athletic scholarship to David Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Before his arrival in the United States in 2002, he studied political philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, the former seat of St. Boniface, Apostle to the Germans. He has lived in all four corners of the United States, from Tennessee to California, from Michigan to West Virginia, and now in New Hampshire.

From 2006 to 2007, after completing his master’s degree on the West Coast at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, he spent an invaluable year at the Russell Kirk Center in Michigan where, among other subjects, he studied American conservatism and totalitarian ideologies. From 2008 to 2010, he and his wife Sara lived in lovely Scotland, where he pursued his doctorate in intellectual history at the University of St. Andrews. His dissertation critically engages the early thought of the Catholic phenomenologist and philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977). At Thomas More College, Dr. Kitzinger has taught a variety of courses across multiple disciplines, mainly in the humanities (Greek, Medieval, Modern) and moral philosophy (Ethics, Economics, Politics).

His scholarly interests include the intellectual and political history of German Catholicism, especially of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Aristotelian-Thomistic moral and political philosophy; and Christian personalism. In his spare time, Dr. Kitzinger enjoys time with his family, working on projects around the house, and following European football.

Dr. Kitzinger resides in Nashua, NH with his wife, Dr. Sara Kitzinger, and their three sons, Josef, Philipp, and Nikolas.