Adolf Holl

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Adolf Holl (born May 13, 1930 in Vienna ; † January 23, 2020 there ) was an Austrian theologian , sociologist of religion , publicist and (suspended from office) Catholic priest .

Life

Adolf Holl, born on May 13, 1930, bore the name of the unemployed Karl Wilhelm Holl, with whom his mother Josefine entered into a short marriage of convenience on January 29, 1930 ; his real father, a married senior building officer in the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture , died in November 1931 at the age of 57. Some celebrities attended the funeral, including the then Agriculture Minister Engelbert Dollfuß .

As a 14-year-old, in the war winter of 1944, Holl said he had finally decided to become a priest as an altar server at the altar by the magic of a Latin Mass . He was ordained a priest in 1954 and received his doctorate in Catholic theology from the University of Vienna in 1955 . In another study of philosophy , psychology and history , he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1961. The subject of his first works was the church father Augustine . From 1963 he was a lecturer at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Vienna .

From 1954 to 1973 he was chaplain in the parish church on Keplerplatz and in the Neulerchenfeld parish church .

The murdered Bishop Romero was inspired by the Spanish edition of Holl's first bestseller.

His book Jesus in Bad Society (1971), in which his partner, the journalist Inge Santner-Cyrus, contributed, brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. In it he stated that the family, priesthood, social class and politics were "actually indifferent to the Lord Jesus" and also questioned the divinity of Jesus. As a result, his teaching license was revoked in 1973 . In 1976 he was suspended from the priesthood by the Archbishop of Vienna , Cardinal König , for whom he also wrote speeches, under pressure from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican. Months earlier, he announced the breach of celibacy in the television public . In the 1970s he was particularly popular with a youth who rebelled against rigid social structures and traditionalism. Some of his well-attended lectures were under police protection. Back then, his name was equated with acute danger in the conservative environment, especially since he sawed the trunk of the official church . The church critic's first bestseller has been translated into 10 languages ​​and is considered the key and understanding text of Brazilian liberation theology .

Christ in Emmaus
Ave verum , aspect of Adolf Holl's emotional home

He drew from the mystery of the change even when he had long since located the person of Jesus in this world. He associated the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci , Rembrandt's painting Christ in Emmaus and the Ave Verum by Mozart with deep personal emotions.

He became known throughout Austria as the discussion leader for the Club 2 live broadcast . He worked as a writer and freelance publicist until his death. His biographer Klauhs stated that “the sarcastic revolutionary of yore had become a sophistic rogue who accompanied the decline of his church with relaxed cheerfulness.” Holl gave insights into his personal motivations, his feelings as a priest and was considered an open, human scholar.

He died in 2020 after a serious illness at the age of 89 in Vienna-Döbling .

Awards

Works (selection)

As an author:

As editor:

  • Baptism certificate Catholic. Celebrities answer the question: How do you feel about religion? Eichborn, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-8218-0419-X .
  • News from death. Today's ways of dealing with having to die. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-8000-3343-7 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Holl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Adolf Holl  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Holl, theologian and church critic, is dead , article in Die Presse on January 23, 2020, accessed on January 23, 2020.
  2. ^ Between frankincense and sulfur , article in Wiener Zeitung , April 1, 2018
  3. ^ Died - Adolf Holl , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed January 23, 2020
  4. ↑ From the archive: Adolf Holl: "Dem death, defying reality" , in Dietmar Neuwirth's Die Presse , November 2, 2013
  5. ^ ORF Religion Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism to Adolf Holl, May 9, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2020
Place of death Vienna