Werner Gitt

Werner Gitt was born in Raineck/East Prussia (Germany) in 1937. He studied engineering from 1963 to 1968 at the Technical University in Hannover and graduated as Doctor of Engineering at the Technical University in Aachen in 1970. Since 1971, he has been Supervisor of Information Technology at the Federal Physics-Technology Institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) in Braunschweig, where he became a Director and Professor in 1978. He has written numerous scientific papers in the field of information science, numerical mathematics and control engineering, as well as several popular books, some of which have been translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Kirghizian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian. In 1980 he became a member of the executive committee of the study group “Word and Knowledge”.

Since 1984 he has been a regular guest lecturer at the State Independent Theological University of Basle, Switzerland, teaching on the subject of ‘Bible and Science’. He has held lectures on related topics at numerous universities at home and abroad and has spoken on Faith and Science in a number of different countries (including Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Kasakhstan, Kirghisia, Lithuania, Namibia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA).

Karl-Heinz Vanheiden

Karl-Heinz Vanheiden was born in Jena in 1948. He studied physics from 1968 to 1971 at the University of Halle, and then was called to Christian youth work in East Germany.

Between 1975 and 1991 he taught youth work, homiletics, and prophecy at the Burgstaedt Bible School. From 1985 through to 1990 he was a member of the executive committee of the Work Group “Faith and Knowledge” in the former German Democratic Republic. Since 1992 he has been touring as an evangelical preacher.