Albert Lang (theologian)

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Albert Lang (born October 5, 1890 in Falkenberg (Upper Palatinate) , † July 23, 1973 in Bonn ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and clergyman .

Life

After graduating from high school in Straubing, Albert Lang devoted himself to studying philosophy and theology at the universities of Regensburg and Innsbruck from 1910 . During the First World War he interrupted his studies to serve as an officer in the I. Army Corps of the German Empire .

Albert Lang received on June 29, 1919 in Regensburg , the priesthood , then he worked as a chaplain in Arzberg used was until he leave for the purpose of further study. 1924 doctorate long for Dr. theol. at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There habilitated long in 1928, before the representation of the January 1929 Chair of dogmatics and apologetics at the philosophical-theological college Regensburg took over. On November 11, 1933, he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities . On May 1, 1935, Lang was appointed associate professor in Regensburg. On September 1, 1935, he followed a call to the chair for fundamental theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

After the faculty there was closed, Albert Lang was transferred to the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on May 31, 1939 , where he was given the chair of fundamental theology to succeed the deceased Arnold Rademacher after his retirement in 1959. He was succeeded by Joseph Ratzinger after.

Albert Lang dealt scientifically in particular with scholasticism .

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KStV Rhenania Erlangen, KStV Agilolfia Regensburg and KStV Albertia Munich.

Honors

On April 17, 1953 Albert Lang was appointed papal house prelate .

Fonts

  • The Loci theologici of Melchior Cano and the method of dogmatic proof. A contribution to theological methodology and its history. Kösel and Pustet, Munich 1925.
  • The ways of the establishment of faith among the scholastics of the 14th century. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster (Westphalia) 1930.
  • Heinrich Totting from Oyta . A contribution to the history of the origins of the first German universities and the problem history of late scholasticism. Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1937.
  • Contested Christianity. Hanstein, Bonn 1947.
  • Essence and truth of religion. Introduction to the philosophy of religion. Hueber Verlag, Munich 1957.
  • The unfolding of the apologetic problem in medieval scholasticism. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1962.
  • Fundamental theology . Hueber, Munich, 3rd edition. 1962.
    • Volume 1: Mission of Christ
    • Volume 2: Mission of the Church
  • The theological principles of medieval scholasticism. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1964.

literature

  • Who is who? Das Deutsche who's who, Volume 12.Arani, Berlin 1955, p. 680.
  • Association for Diocesan History of Munich and Freising: Contributions to the old Bavarian church history. Volume 48.Seitz & Val. Höfling, Munich 2005, p. 157.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Thomas Forstner: Priests in Times of Change. Identity and environment of the Catholic parish clergy in Upper Bavaria 1918 to 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-55040-3 , p. 221.
  2. ↑ Erwin Gatz : The Bonn Catholic Theological Faculty in the “Third Reich” and in the post-war period . In: Thomas Becker (ed.): Between dictatorship and a new beginning. The University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” and in the post-war period . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-440-1 , pp. 59–78, here p. 69.

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personal data
SURNAME Lang, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenberg (Upper Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 1973
Place of death Bonn