Josef Pilvousek

Josef Pilvousek (born June 7, 1948 in Thalwend ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and taught church history of the Middle Ages and modern times at the University of Erfurt until his retirement in 2013 .

Life

After high school and military service, Josef Pilvousek attended the church language course in Halle (Saale) , which prepared him for studying theology. From 1970 to 1975 he studied theology and philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological Studies in Erfurt , the only training facility for Catholic priests in the GDR. After being ordained a priest in 1977 by Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck , he worked for three years in pastoral care. In 1980 Pilvousek returned to studying philosophy and theology in Erfurt as an assistant, and in 1985 he completed his dissertation The Prelates of the Collegiate Church of St. Marien in Erfurt from 1400–1555 . In 1988 he was by the Pontifical Gregorian University for Dr. theol. doctorate - a procedure that resulted from the church political situation in the GDR. From 1985 to 1993 he was director of the cathedral archive in Erfurt.

Josef Pilvousek experienced the social and political upheaval in the GDR in 1989 during a one-year study visit to Rome. In 1994 he was appointed to the chair for church history of the Middle Ages and the modern age at the Philosophical-Theological Studies in Erfurt, which he has administered since 1988. Since 1990 he has been a pastor in the parish vicarie Neudietendorf. With the incorporation of the Erfurt Theological Faculty, which emerged from the Philosophical-Theological Studies, into the University of Erfurt in 2003, Pilvousek became a university professor. He retired in 2013. From 2015 to 2016 Pilvousek was parish administrator in the parish of St. Bonifatius in Gotha.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a ceremony took place on June 20, 2018, at which Bernhard Vogel gave the celebratory lecture.

Act

In 1990, Josef Pilvousek was commissioned to process East German church history. In this context, he set up the church regional archive Ordinarien Ost (ROO) and the research center for contemporary church history in Erfurt. He was chairman of the archives advisory board of the diocese of Erfurt. Through a large number of publications he has contributed to the understanding of historical, ecclesiastical and theological developments since 1945. His other areas of research included the history of the Reformation and Central German regional history.

Memberships and editorial work

Josef Pilvousek is a member of various institutions and commissions: since 1988/89 of the AG of Church Historians of the German-Speaking Area, which he chaired from 2006 to 2010, as well as the Society for Middle Rhine Church History and the Görres Society . From 1991 the membership in the committee was added, between 2004 and 2011 also in the board of the society for the publication of the Corpus Catholicorum eV as well as in the commission for contemporary history .

In addition, Pilvousek was or is a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt. He is one of the founding members of the Rotary Club Erfurt-Krämerbrücke, of which he was president in 1998/99. The church historian has been a member of the Senate of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt since 2017.

Pilvousek is co-editor of the journal Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte , the yearbook for central German church and religious history as well as the Erfurt Theological Studies and the Erfurt Theological Writings .

Publications (selection)

• The prelates of the Collegiate Church of St. Marien in Erfurt from 1400–1555 (= Erfurt Theological Studies 55). Leipzig 1988.
• Church life in the totalitarian state. Pastoral care in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1976. Source texts from the professorships . Leipzig 1994.
• Church life in the totalitarian state. Source texts from the professorships 1977–1989. Document volume II Leipzig 1998.
• Vatican Ostpolitik - The politics of state and church in the GDR. In: Karl-Joseph Hummel (ed.): Vatican Ostpolitik under Johannes XXIII. and Paul VI. 1958-1988. Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich 1999, pp. 113-134.
• Catholic Church in the GDR. Church for Society? In: Wolfgang Schluchter (ed.): Colloquia of the Max Weber College VI-XIV (1999–2000), Erfurt 2000, pp. 93–116.
• Martin Luther and Erfurt . In: Josef Freitag (Hrsg.): Luther in Erfurt and the Catholic theology (= Erfurt Theologische Schriften 29). Leipzig 2001, pp. 13-27.
• Theological training and social upheaval. 50 years of Catholic theological college and priest training in Erfurt . Leipzig 2002.
• Reformation in Erfurt under the spell of Thuringian Luther research? In: Historisches Jahrbuch 123 (2003), pp. 339–355.
• The reception of the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church in the GDR . In: History Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (Hrsg.): Rottenburger yearbook for church history. Forty Years of the Second Vatican Council 26 (2007), Ostfildern 2008, pp. 107-120.
• Hugo Aufderbeck (1909-1981) . Heiligenstadt 2009 (together with Elisabeth Preuß).
• Admission - integration - home. Refugees, displaced persons and the “arrival society” (= studies on contemporary church history 3), Münster 2009 (together with Elisabeth Preuß).
• Mission - Concepts and Practice of the Catholic Church in Past and Present (= Erfurt Theologische Schriften 38), Würzburg 2009 (together with Myriam Wijlens, Benedikt Kranemann ).
• The Library of the Amplonius Rating de Berka and its hidden treasures. Notes on the rediscovery of the "Erfurt" Augustine sermons (= Erfurt Theologische Schriften, vol. 39), Würzburg 2010 (together with J. Römelt).
• The “Reform Process” of the Catholic Church in the New Lander after 1989 . In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 23 (2010), pp. 464–481.
• Organization and structure of the “emigrated pastoral care” of the Archdiocese of Cologne in Thuringia 1943–1945 . In: H. Finger, R. Haas, H.-J. Scheidgen (Ed.): Local Church and Universal Church in History. Cologne Church History between the Middle Ages and the Second Vatican Council. Ceremony for Norbert Trippen on his 75th birthday (= Bonn contributions to church history, vol. 28), Cologne-Weimar-Wien 2011, pp. 491–515.
• The integration of the theological faculty into the University of Erfurt . In: Theologie und Glaube 55 (2012), pp. 172–238.
• Catholic reactions to the commemoration of Luther in the year of the seizure of power . In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 26 (2013), pp. 335–346.
• On the status of contemporary research on Catholicism in the New States . In: Theologische Revue 110 (2014), pp. 3–20.
• The Catholic Church in the GDR. Contributions to the Church History of Central Germany , Münster 2014.
• Between controversial sermons and mediation theology. The Erfurt cathedral preacher Konrad Klinge (1483-1556) . In Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 70 (2018), 147–166.
• 350 years of the Ursulines in Erfurt. On the history of the Ursuline Order and its Erfurt Convention . in: Yearbook for Central German Churches and Religious History 14 (2018), 251–270.
• Wolfgang Trilling, Erfurt and Catholicism in the GDR in: Oratorium Leipzig (ed.), Wolfgang Trilling - Witness of Hope, Dresden 2019, 179–190.
• "Light headwind in the storm of socialism". On the life of Christians in the GDR and their church opportunities . In: Theologie der Gegenwart, Vol. 62 (2019/2) pp. 120-136.
• Review: Josef Bordat, From selling indulgences to celibacy. The register of sins of the Catholic Church, Rückersdorf: Lepanto Verlag 2017 . In: Theologie der Gegenwart, Vol. 62 (2019/2) pp. 157–158.

literature

• Sebastian Holzbrecher and Torsten W. Müller as editors: Church life through the ages. Perspectives and contributions of (Central) German church historiography. Festschrift for Josef Pilvousek (= Erfurt theological writings . Volume 104). Echter, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-429-03594-5 .

Web links

• Chair for Church History at the University of Erfurt
• Complete list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://aktuell.uni-erfurt.de/2018/06/07/festakt-anlaesslich-des-70-geburtestag-von-prof-em-dr-josef-pilvousek/