Johann Baptist Baltzer

Bust (1876) of the cathedral capitular Johann Baptist Baltzer in the old cemetery in Bonn, by Bernhard Afinger

Johann Baptist Baltzer , also Johannes Baptista Baltzer , (born June 16, 1803 in Andernach , † October 1, 1871 in Bonn ) was a Catholic theologian and important dogmatist who joined the old Catholic movement towards the end of his life .

Life

Baltzer received his high school education at the Catholic High School in Cologne . From 1823 to 1827 he studied Catholic theology under Georg Hermes at the University of Bonn . In 1829 he was ordained a priest , and in 1830 received his doctorate in theology from the theological faculty in Munich on the basis of the two dissertations on the freedom of human will and the original condition of the first ancestral parents with the waiver of the oral examination. In the same year he became an associate professor, a year later a full professor of dogmatics in Breslau , and in 1843 he was clergyman to the consistory .

In response to a sermon by the Royal Consistorial Councilor, Superintendent and First Preacher at the Court Church in Breslau, Ludwig Falk, Baltzer wrote The Christian Dogma of Bliss in 1844 . In 1846 he became canon at the cathedral under Prince-Bishop Melchior von Diepenbrock , and in 1860 he became cathedral scholastic .

After he had defended the teachings of the Viennese theologian Anton Günther , whose writings were placed on the index of writings forbidden by the Catholic Church in 1857 , in 1853 and had continued to teach Günther's writings indexed after 1859, Heinrich Förster was given to him on April 17, 1860 the church's license to teach ( missio canonica ) revoked.

In 1870 he declared himself against the dogma of papal infallibility and joined the Old Catholic Movement. On the other hand, he described devout Protestantism as “amiable inconsistency”.

He was suspended by Prince-Bishop Heinrich Förster in 1870 after he had signed the Nuremberg Declaration against the Pope's infallibility. All ecclesiastical offices and income were blocked for him ( suspensio ab ordine et beneficio ). He was acquitted by the royal Prussian disciplinary court of the charge made by the minister of culture at the request of the prince-bishop for breach of official duties, but remained without a church teaching assignment. Despite the papal wish to become a teacher, he remained a member of the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Breslau and died on October 1, 1871 in Bonn.

Fonts

The Christian dogma of happiness, according to Catholic and Protestant confessions. At the request and provocation of the gentlemen: Consistorialrath and Superintendent Falk, Professor Lic. Suckow and Senior Krause. Kupferberg, Mainz 1844.
The Christian dogma of happiness, a pamphlet. 2nd Edition. Mainz 1844, as a continuation of this writing.
Theological letters. Mainz 1844 and Breslau 1845.
with D. Latussek , Dr. Ritter , Gärth, [Emanuel Joseph] Elsler, Dr. Förster , [Karl August Wilhelm] Baron von Plotho , [Joseph] Neukirch, Dr. Herber, [Joseph] Freiß, Dr. [Joseph] Sauer and [Aloys] Wache: The Breslau Cathedral Chapter against the "Decree of the Evangelical High Church Council of July 29, 1852". G. Ph. Aderholz, Breslau 1852.
New theological letters to Anton Günther. Mainz and Breslau 1853.
About the beginnings of organisms and the prehistory of man. 4th edition. Paderborn 1873.
The biblical story of creation. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1867–1872.

literature

Angela Berlis : Johannes Baptista Baltzer . In: Andernacher Annalen 6 (2005/2006), Historischer Verein Andernach e. V. (Ed .; Red. Klaus Schäfer), Andernach 2004; Pp. 141-161.
Ernst Melzer: Baltzer, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 33 f.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Baltzer, Johann Baptist. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 361. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

Web links

Бальцер Иоганн Баптист (Johann Baptist Baltzer) article from the old Russian encyclopedia Brockhaus-Efron (russ.)

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 285.
^ JB Baltzer: New theological letters to Anton Günther. 1853, 1859 placed on the index of scriptures forbidden by the Catholic Church.
↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 277 and 285.
↑ Carl Jentsch: Changes. Life memories. FW Grunow, Leipzig 1896, p. 119.
↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 231 and 241.
^ Heinrich Bacht : Prince-Bishop Heinrich Förster and Professor Joseph Hubert Reinkens. Cologne / Vienna 1985 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany. Volume 20), pp. 178–217.
↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 289.

personal data
SURNAME	Baltzer, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baltzer, Johann Baptista; Baltzer, Johannes Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Then after
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1871
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 285.

[2] JB Baltzer: New theological letters to Anton Günther. 1853, 1859 placed on the index of scriptures forbidden by the Catholic Church.

[3] Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 277 and 285.

[4] Carl Jentsch: Changes. Life memories. FW Grunow, Leipzig 1896, p. 119.

[5] Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 231 and 241.

[6] Heinrich Bacht : Prince-Bishop Heinrich Förster and Professor Joseph Hubert Reinkens. Cologne / Vienna 1985 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany. Volume 20), pp. 178–217.

[7] Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 289.