Alfred Stuiber

Alfred Stuiber (born March 27, 1912 in Roding ; † June 24, 1981 in Bochum ) was a Catholic church historian , patrologist and Christian archaeologist .

Life

Alfred Stuiber was the son of the nursery owner Luitpold Stuiber and his wife Kreszenz, nee. Zollner. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Freising, graduated from high school in 1933 and studied in Limburg, Eichstätt and Bamberg; there he was ordained a priest on January 23, 1938. He was chaplain in Neuhaus an der Pegnitz and Nuremberg. From 1940 he served as a medical soldier and was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in September 1945. He then became parish vicar in Windsheim (Middle Franconia).

In the spring of 1948 he received his doctorate at the Bonn Catholic Theological Faculty with the thesis »Libelli Sacramentorum Romani. Investigations into the origin of the so-called Sacramentarium Leonianum «. The habilitation took place on May 28, 1952 due to the work »Refrigerium interim. The ideas of the intermediate state and the early Christian grave art «.

After further pastoral work in Eckenhaid near Erlangen, he devoted himself to an academic career in Bonn from 1953. In 1958 he was appointed adjunct professor; in the same year he founded the yearbook for antiquity and Christianity with Theodor Klauser and Eduard Stommel .

In 1959 Berthold Altaner entrusted him with the continuation of the "Patrology" founded by Gerhard Rauschen , then by Joseph Wittig and then worked on by him; In 1960 the 6th, still little changed edition appeared, in 1966 the completely redesigned 7th, in 1978 an expanded 8th, which was reprinted in 1980.

In 1963 Stuiber was appointed to the chair for ancient church history at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum , he retired at the end of the winter semester 1979/80.

literature

• A list of publications can be found in: Ideas of the Beyond in Antiquity and Christianity, memorial for Alfred Stuiber, Münster: Aschendorff 1982, pp. XVI − XX
• Theodor Klauser: Alfred Stuiber, 1912–1981, in: ibid. S. VII − XV
• Wilhelm Geerlings , Stuiber, Alfred, in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche 3rd ed. Vol. 9 (2000), Sp. 1058f.
• Gerhard Rexin:  Stuiber, Alfred. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 1490-1494.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Stuiber in the catalog of the German National Library