Adolph Gottfried Volusius

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Adolph Gottfried Volusius

Adolph Gottfried Volusius (* 1617 in Hanau ; † March 17, 1679 in Mainz ) was a Catholic auxiliary bishop , scholar and rector of the University of Mainz.

Life

As the son of a Calvinist preacher, he matriculated to study Protestant theology at the then new University of Kassel . Subsequently, in 1637, he took over the pastoral position in his hometown of Hanau. Due to his involvement with the patristic , controversial theology and thus to the study of Catholic theological works and the commitment to the Marian devotion he had to flee, came over the Electoral Mainz Steinheim to Mainz.

There he converted to the Catholic faith in 1638 and began his main creative period. Archbishop Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt sent Volusius to the Collegium Germanicum seminary in Rome. After he was ordained a priest in 1642 at the age of 25, he worked as a pastor in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) . Soon afterwards, in 1645, Volusius became cathedral priest and cathedral preacher at Mainz Cathedral . He was promoted to canon in 1646 and dean of St. Mauritz Monastery in 1651 and was a scholaster in 1646 and dean of St. Maria ad Gradus (Mainz) from 1663 . At the University of Mainz he acquired the degree of Doctor theologiae in 1643 . In addition to his teaching activities, he was elected rector in 1675 and 1676.

On June 22, 1676, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Mainz and was ordained a bishop . He was also appointed titular bishop of Diocletiana .

Under Johann Philipp von Schönborn he was consistorial advisor and sealer of the vicariate general in 1657 . In memory of his archbishop, he wrote a commemorative speech which he gave at the burial of Schönborn's heart on March 8, 1673 at the high altar of the cathedral.

Although his new German translation of the Bible , the "Mainz Bible" from 1655, remained unprinted, Volusius' biblical catechism, based on the catechism of Petrus Canisius , formed an important basis for improving religious life. He also edited a new Mainz proprium , which Willigis intended as a saint. His activity as auxiliary bishop extended to both parts of the archdiocese in partibus Rheni and in partibus Hassiae et Thuringiae until the end of his life . As a convert, Volusius was particularly keen to strengthen church life. His controversial theological estate is in the Martinus Library . As a Mainz book censor , he appears, among other things, at the imprimatur of a “Mainz Union Plan”, which appeared in autumn 1660 and was supposed to put an end to the denominational separation in the Archbishopric. His successor was Matthias Starck .

Works

  • Catechism biblicus - That is written declaration and proof of ... ; Nicolao Heyl, Mainz, 1663.
  • Aurora pacis religiosae divinae veritate amica ... , Schönwetterus, Frankfurt, 1665.
  • Calvinismi fugiendi et fidei catholicae eligendae consilium maturum , Mainz, 1638.
  • Pars ... castigationis Catholicae, sive responsum ad quandam Samuelis Maresii ... , 1666.
  • Sacerdos Magnus Das ist, a Christian funeral and eulogy ... , 1673.

literature

  • Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken:  VOLUSIUS (Vogler), Adolf Gottfried. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 66-68.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Ludwig Andreas Veit: Adolf Gottfried Volusius, Calvinist preacher, later Catholic. Pastor in Heppenheim a, d. B., cathedral preacher and auxiliary bishop of Mainz (1618-79). In: Katholisches Volksblatt (Martinusblatt) , Mainz, 1912. 65th vol. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.
  • Friedhelm Jürgensmeier: Vitae and biographies of the Archbishops of Mainz, Auxiliary Bishops and Vicars General : In: Erwin Gatz (ed.), The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803. A biographical lexicon; Berlin, 1990, p. 541.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Stöhr : Volusius (Vogler), Adolf Gottfried, (1617-1679). In: Marienlexikon , ed. on behalf of the Institutum Marianum by R. Bäumer and L. Scheffczyk, EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien, Vol. 6, 1994, p. 668.
  2. ↑ CERL Thesaurus
  3. ^ Dieter Harmening: Folk Culture - History - Region. Festschrift for Wolfgang Brückner on the occasion of his 60th birthday (sources and research on European ethnology 7), 2nd edition, Würzburg 1992.
  4. ^ HH Haagner: Liber pontificalium. Ordinations from 1676 onwards, usque ad annum 1702. The consecration book of the Mainz auxiliary bishops Volusius and Starck (Le registre des ordinations, consécrations et bénédictions tenu par les évêques titulaires de Mayence, V. et S) . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History . tape 38 , ISSN  0066-6432 , p. 225-279 .
  5. ^ Bernhard Fabian: Library of the Episcopal Seminary Fabian-Handbuch , September 2007
  6. ↑ Hans Peterse: Irenik and Tolerance in the 16th and 17th Centuries , Volume 1, pp. 265-271
  7. ↑ Adolph Gottfried Volusius, Petrus Canisius: Catechismus Biblicus This is a written explanation and verification of the true Christian-Catholics, only salvific, in Doctoris Petri Canisii ... Little German catechismo understood teaching . Kuntz, 1663, p. 12 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  8. ↑ in Volusius' estate, Martinus Library, Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Volusius, Adolph Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogler, Adolf Gottfried; Volusius, Adolphus Godefridus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1679
Place of death Mainz