After having completed her degree of Theology and Classical Philology in Frankfurt, Marburg and Kiel she received the PhD
(dissertation on the Socratic Aischines) in 1964 in Frankfurt/Germany.

In 1969 she gained her licentiate at the "Oriental Faculty" of Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome, Italy.

In 1972 she could habilitate in Göttingen about the Syrian gnostic Bardesanes of Edessa.

Since 1972 she acted as private lecturer, later on she became professor for "Church History and New Testament Research with eminently consideration of
Christian Orient" at the Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät in Münster, Germany.

In 1983 she became director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (which was founded in 1959 by her husband Kurt Aland) and also the Bible Museum.

This institute achieved worldwide significance by publishing the "Nestle-Aland" - Novum Testamentum Graece and the UBS Greek New Testament.

Until her retirement Barbara Aland was also the director of Hermann-Kunst-Stiftung for Promotion of New Testament Research.

She is still working academically in her retirement.
After having completed her degree of Theology and Classical Philology in Frankfurt, Marburg and Kiel she received the PhD
(dissertation on the Socratic Aischines) in 1964 in Frankfurt/Germany.
In 1969 she gained her licentiate at the "Oriental Faculty" of Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome, Italy.
In 1972 she could habilitate in Göttingen about the Syrian gnostic Bardesanes of Edessa.
Since 1972 she acted as private lecturer, later on she became professor for "Church History and New Testament Research with eminently consideration of
Christian Orient" at the Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät in Münster, Germany.
In 1983 she became director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (which was founded in 1959 by her husband Kurt Aland) and also the Bible Museum.
This institute achieved worldwide significance by publishing the "Nestle-Aland" - Novum Testamentum Graece and the UBS Greek New Testament.
Until her retirement Barbara Aland was also the director of Hermann-Kunst-Stiftung for Promotion of New Testament Research.
She is still working academically in her retirement.
Barbara Aland