Albert Michael Koeniger

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Albert Michael Koeniger (born February 23, 1874 in Lauingen , † August 29, 1950 in Augsburg ) was a German church historian and canonist .

Career

After studying theology in Munich , he was ordained a priest in 1899. After two years as a pastor, he began studying church history and canon law history in Munich, Vienna and Würzburg from 1901 . In 1904 Koeniger received his doctorate in theology , and in 1907 he completed his habilitation in church history. In 1911 he was appointed associate professor in Bamberg , in 1918 he was appointed full professor at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg , and from 1919 until his retirement in 1938 he was personal professor of canon law and church history at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University of Bonn . He had been in tension with the faculty since 1929, had not attended faculty meetings since February 1933, and in November 1933 he was the only faculty member to join the Nazi teachers' association . His research activities were ecclesiastical legal history, taking legal symbolism into account, and the systematic recording of canon and concordat law .

In 1930 Hans Barion completed his habilitation with him, whom he successfully recommended to the Bonn faculty as his successor in 1938.

Koeniger had been a member of the Academic-Scientific Association Renaissance zu Bonn since 1920 (later KDB Rheno-Guestphalia zu Bonn in the RKDB ).

Fonts (selection)

  • The marriage process code for the diocesan courts, 1937 (KStuT 11)
  • The renewal of the sending court in the diocese of Fulda 1835 , 1938 (KStuT 15)
  • The military chaplaincy of the Carolingian era: its law and its practice / by Albert Michael Koeniger, Munich, Lentner, 1918. - 78 pp. (German)
  • Publications from the Church History Seminar in Munich  : 4th series; No. 7)
  • Discussion by: Franz Gescher: The Cologne dean's office and archdeacon's office in their creation and first development. A contribution to the constitutional history of the German Church in the Middle Ages. (= Canonical treatises. Ed. By Ulrich Stutz , Volume 95). Stuttgart 1919 (also theological dissertation Freiburg 1919). In: Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte 42 Canonical Department. Volume 11, 1921, pp. 459-476.

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Individual evidence

  1. Fritz Aldefeld (ed.): Total directory of RKDB Neuss 1,931th