 This was also the year that he finished his reconstruction of the Thanksgiving Hymns scroll.Stegemann obtained his doctorate in Theology from Bonn in 1971.From 1971 to 1979 he held the post of professor at Philipps-Universität in Marburg, after which he took over from Hans Conzelmann at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he taught until the end of the summer 2005, when he retired.