Project Director of the edition of Spener’s Letters
- born 1952 in Bottrop, study of history, German, and Protestant theology
- 1985 Doctorate in church history at the Ruhr University Bochum (under Johannes Wallmann)
- 1991 Habilitation
- since 1992 professor for church history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Research areas: Lutheran Orthodoxy, European piety movements in the Early Modern period, history of Pietism - 1993 to 2010 Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Pietism
- 2010-2018 Rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- since 2018 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Francke Foundations
- Member of the Historical Commission for Research in Pietism
- Member of the board of trustees of the Foundation Luther Memorials of Saxony-Anhalt
Literature by and about Udo Sträter in the catalogue of the German National Library.