Erwin Iserloh

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Erwin Iserloh (born May 15, 1915 in Ruhrort , today Duisburg - Beeck , † April 14, 1996 in Münster ) was a Roman Catholic church historian and ecumenist.

Life

Erwin Iserloh was decisively shaped by the resistance against National Socialism . He was a member of the Bund Neudeutschland (ND), an association of the Catholic youth movement founded after the First World War , and took part in the fight against the Hitler Youth (HJ).

After studying theology in Münster Iserloh received in 1940 by Bishop Clemens August von Galen in the cathedral at Munster the priesthood . Then he was able to write a dissertation on the history of the Reformation with Joseph Lortz , the pioneer of new Catholic Luther research. In 1942 Iserloh was appointed president of the " St. Josefshaus " boys' education institution near Wettringen . He supervised difficult young people between the ages of 16 and 21 who had committed several criminal offenses in the Heidhof. This closed department was housed in a separate building, isolated from the other groups of pupils. He continued the illegal youth work in the Münsterland . Accused by the Gestapo of "continuing illegal bandages and degrading military strength ", he went into hiding in Apple pods in the Martinis pen. Because contrary to the opinion of his Bishop von Galen that the Nazi regime was waging a legitimate war against godless Bolshevism , he did not want to volunteer for the Wehrmacht in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp.

In December 1942 he received the order to be assigned to the 5th / 6th medical department in Soest as a patient carrier. On September 1, 1943, Iserloh was ordered to work as an ambulance driver on the Eastern Front , where he also worked as a priest. He escaped Soviet captivity by taking a leave from the front in June 1944. In October 1944 he was back at the front with an ambulance train in southern Masuria . On March 22, 1945 he was wounded in Rosenberg , the port of Heiligenbeil , and rescued by his brother Lothar while trying to reach the ship to Pillau at the ferry terminal . He was transported to Swinoujscie on a transport of the wounded and then to a military hospital in Heringsdorf . He was then transferred to Reserve Hospital II in Helmstedt .

In June 1945, by order of the British military government , Iserloh was moved to the St. Josefshaus reserve hospital near Wettringen . After his recovery he took over the leadership of a group of school-leavers there. In November 1945 he became a chaplain in the monastery of the Holy Cross in Freckenhorst (Warendorf district). In 1947 he went to Rome to study at the priestly college at Campo Santo Teutonico . There he was a student of Hubert Jedin , with whom he completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1951 . For Jedin's multi-volume handbook of church history , Iserloh later wrote the chapters on the Reformation (Volume 4, 1st part).

Iserloh taught church history , from 1954 to 1964 at the theological faculty in Trier and from 1964 to his retirement in 1983 in Münster , where he first became director of the Catholic-Ecumenical Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

Iserloh was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia in 1968, of which he was a member from 1978. Between 1982 and 1990 he was vice chairman of the commission. Between 1979 and 1989 he was the director of the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Department of Münster .

From 1976 to 1990 Iserloh was resident cathedral capitular in Münster. He was buried in the canon cemetery at Münster Cathedral in the courtyard of the cloister.

Services

Iserloh's main research interests were the late Middle Ages , the history of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation . His assertion that Luther's posting of the theses at the castle church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517 in the traditional form caused a stir . However, the good expert on the life and works of Martin Luther did not question the authenticity of the 95 theses themselves.

Iserloh published the series Corpus Catholicorum , Catholic Life and Church Reform and Reformation History Studies and Texts , which dealt with Catholic theologians of the 16th century; also the writings and letters of the Catholic social reformer Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler . He was co-editor of the magazines Theologische Revue and Catholica , also a member of the advisory board of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute in Paderborn and of the Commission for Contemporary History in Bonn as well as an advisor to the Ecumenical Commission of the German Bishops' Conference .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Eucharist as portrayed by Johannes Eck : A contribution to the pre-Indian controversial theology about the sacrifice of the Mass . Aschendorff, Münster 1950 (dissertation 1942), online: unifr.ch accessed on February 12, 2013
  • Grace and Eucharist in the Philosophical Theology of Wilhelm von Ockham : Their Significance for the Causes of the Reformation . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1956 (Habilitation), online: unifr.ch accessed on February 12, 2013
  • Luther's posting, fact or legend? Steiner, Wiesbaden 1962
  • Luther between reform and reformation. The theses were not posted . Münster 1966, 1968 (3rd edition)
  • Luther and the Reformation . Aschaffenburg 1974
  • History and Theology of the Reformation . Paderborn 1980, 4th edition 1998
  • Church - event and history. Articles and lectures . Aschendorff, Münster 1985
  • Life review . In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 82 (1987), pp. 15–43, unifr.ch

literature

in order of appearance

  • Remigius Bäumer (Ed.): Reformatio ecclesiae: Contributions to ecclesiastical reform efforts from the old church to the modern age. Ceremony for Erwin Iserloh . Schöningh, Paderborn 1980.
  • Remigius Bäumer: Erwin Iserloh. His scientific life's work. For his 80th birthday . In: Annuario de Historia de la Iglesia , vol. 5 (1996), pp. 501–505 ( digitized version of the Universidad de Navarra (PDF), accessed on June 22, 2020).
  • Konrad Repgen : In memoriam Erwin Iserloh (1915–1996). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 117 (1997), pp. 255–270.
  • Harald Wagner : Joseph Bautz - Hermann Eising - Erwin Iserloh. Almost forgotten theology professors from the diocese. In: Dorothea Sattler (Ed.): Commemorate and create. 1200 years of the diocese of Münster. Aschendorff, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-00213-2 , pp. 162-179.
  • Wilhelm Damberg :  Iserloh, Erwin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 687-694.
  • Barbara Hallensleben : Erwin Iserloh (1915–1996) - a “modern from (about) tomorrow” . In: Trier Theologische Zeitschrift , vol. 120 (2011), pp. 150–163 ( online on the website of the Institute for Ecumenical Studies, Freiburg im Üechtland).
  • Uwe Wolff : Iserloh. The theses were not posted (= Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia, vol. 61). Institute for Ecumenical Studies of the University of Friborg Switzerland / Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7245-1956-0 [The volume contains a biographical study of Erwin Iserloh, his personal memories, a documentation of Iserloh's arguments about the posting of the theses, a Research report on recent developments in the debate about posting the theses, the complete bibliography Erwin Iserloh.]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uwe Wolff: Iserloh. The theses were not posted [= Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia 61]. Institute for Ecumenical Studies at the University of Freiburg Switzerland / Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7245-1956-0 , p. 45
  2. ↑ Uwe Wolff: Iserloh. The theses were not posted [= Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia 61]. Institute for Ecumenical Studies at the University of Freiburg Switzerland / Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7245-1956-0 , Chapter 4: In the Second World War , pp. 45ff.
personal data
SURNAME Iserloh, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhrort , today Duisburg-Beeck
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1996
Place of death trier