Adolf Hampel
Adolf Hampel (born September 7, 1933 in Kleinherrlitz (Malé Heraltice) - near Groß Herrlitz ) - is a German Catholic theologian .
Life
Hampel was expelled from the Sudetenland with his family in 1946 and attended high school in Passau. He studied from 1953 to 1958 at the theological college for expellees in Königstein im Taunus and at the Collegium Russicum in the Vatican . In 1958 he was ordained a priest according to the Byzantine rite . In 1962 he received his doctorate in Rome and was offered a position at the theological college in Königstein im Taunus. In 1969 he became professor for Catholic church history and moral theology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He applied to the Pope to lay him down and release him from celibacy . The request was granted and Hampel married his girlfriend Renate. In 1973 the Hampel family moved into the rectory in the gateway to Hungen Castle . Hampel's encounter with Hans Georg Graf von Oppersdorff gave him the idea of buying Hungen Castle. In 1977 he founded the German Korczak Society with Erich Dauzenroth . In 2012 he published a book with memoirs under the title My Long Way to Moscow .
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Hampel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Adolf Hampel - a pioneer of the East-West dialogue ( memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Gießener Anzeiger
- Hungen Castle: My home is my castle in the Frankfurter Rundschau
- One mark and three million euros ( memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Gießener Anzeiger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hampel, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein-Herrlitz |