1952 onwards - Academic career

Rather than pursue a life as a parish preist, however, Ratzinger continued his academic studies - working as a lecturer on dogmatic and fundamental theology at the Higher School in Freising (pictured above), before completing first a doctorate in theology and eventually a dissertation that qualified him for University teaching. He became a professor, first at the University of Bonn, then the Universities of Münster, Tübingen, and finally Regensburg, where he held the Chair of dogmatics and history of dogma.