Angelus Häussling

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Angelus Häußling OSB (born April 19, 1932 in Lambrecht (Palatinate) as Albert Häußling ; † July 11, 2017 in the Maria Laach Abbey ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Benedictine .

Life

Albert Häußling was a son of the lawyer Aloys Häußling and his wife Maria, geb. Locksmith. The couple's nine children also included the lawyer and rector Josef M. Häußling .

Albert Häußling studied theology and philosophy in the Benedictine monasteries of Maria Laach and Beuron . In 1951 he joined the religious community , took the religious name Angelus and made his profession on March 22, 1953 . On July 27, 1958, he received the sacrament of ordination . From 1961 he continued his studies at the Universities of Innsbruck (there with Karl Rahner, among others ) and Salzburg . Häußling received his doctorate in theology on March 25, 1965 in Salzburg . From 1968 until his death he was a librarian at Maria Laach Monastery.

Angelus Häußling was an academic teacher at the Liturgical Institute in Trier and at the universities of the Steyler Missionaries in St. Augustin and the Redemptorists in Hennef-Geistingen . In 1976 he was appointed associate professor for liturgical science and in 1980 full professor for liturgical science and sacramental theology at the PTH Benediktbeuern . He held this office until his retirement in summer 2000.

From 1986 to 1996 he was an advisor to the liturgy commission of the German Bishops' Conference .

On November 15, 2000, Häußling received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

He died on July 11, 2017 after a long illness at the age of 85 in Maria Laach Abbey.

Offices and editorial activities

Fonts (selection)

In chronological order:

  • With Karl Rahner : The many masses and the one sacrifice (= Quaestiones disputatae 31). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna, 2nd edition 1966.
  • Alcuin and the service of the court chapel . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Vol. 25, Böhlau, Münster / Cologne 1969, pp. 223–229.
  • Monks' convent and Eucharistic celebration. A study of the mass in the western monastic liturgy of the early Middle Ages and the history of the frequency of measurements . Münster 1973, ISBN 3-402-03842-2 .
  • Article Missal . In: Wolfgang Stammler , Karl Langosch (ed. :) The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon, Vol. 6, de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1987, Col. 607-612.
  • The missal German. Materials on the history of the reception of the Latin Mass liturgy in the German-speaking area up to the 2nd Vatican Council . Aschendorff, Münster 1984.
  • Liturgical reform. Materials on a new topic in liturgical science . In: Archiv für Liturgiewwissenschaft 31 (1989), pp. 1–32.
  • Christian identity from the liturgy. Theological and historical studies of church worship. Aschendorff, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-402-04058-1 .
  • Article liturgy of the times of day . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK). 3rd edition, Volume 9, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 1232-1241.
  • Article Liturgy of the Hour . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 8, pp. 260–265.
  • The Bible in the liturgy of the times of day . In: Patrizia Carmassi (ed.): Presence and use of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian early Middle Ages . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 299–322.
  • Liturgy of the times of the day in the past and present. Historical and theological studies . Edited by Martin Klöckener . Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-11263-2 .

literature

  • Nicole Stockhoff: When liturgical thinking meets reality. The liturgical theological work of Angelus A. Häußling (OSB) and its transformation to the empirical evidence of the Second Swiss Special Case Study . Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-11265-6 .
  • Asztrik Várszegi : Christian Identity from the Liturgy. In memoriam P. Angelus A. Häußling OSB (1932-2017). In: Erbe und Einsatz, 93 (2017), Heft 4, p. 470f. ( online as a PDF file ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Liturgy scholar Angelus Häußling died on kathisch.de, July 12, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2017
  2. ↑ P. Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Angelus Häußling OSB (April 19, 1932 - July 11, 2017) benediktinerakademie.org. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ Häußling, Josef M. In: Manfred Wockel, Hans-Joachim WE Schellmann (Ed.): Who's who in the Catholic World. 3rd edition - Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, Vienna 1983.
  4. ^ Website of Maria Laach Abbey , accessed on December 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Häussling, Angelus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häussling, Angelus A .; Häußling, Albert (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and member of the Benedictine order
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Lambrecht (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH 11th July 2017
Place of death Maria Laach Abbey