Anton Frenzel

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Anton Frenzel (born August 7, 1790 in Kostenthal in Silesia ; † April 3, 1873 in Frauenburg ) was a Catholic theologian , vicar general and auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Warmia .

Life

Anton Frenzel was born into a poor family as the son of a shoemaker. He attended the village schools of his birthplace and in Peiskretscham . Thanks to the intercession of his teacher, who was impressed by the talent of his pupil, he was allowed to attend the teachers' seminar in Oberglogau from 1801 . He then worked as an assistant teacher, still a teenager himself. In 1810 the teacher became a pupil again, because he passed the entrance examination for the Academic Gymnasium Leopoldinum in Breslau . He studied philosophy and theology in Breslau and Olomouc . He was ordained a priest on March 7, 1818.

As a student, Frenzel submitted an answer to the question asked by the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Wroclaw : "Whether it is a Catholic dogma that the marriage bond cannot be broken under any circumstances during the lifetime of the spouses". Frenzel said no. He argued that the absolute indissolubility of marriage was a norm set by the church's doctrinal authority and that neither the testimonies of Scripture and the church fathers nor the consistency of church tradition (“sensus traditionalis”) were sufficient to make this doctrine to be understood as dogma . Frenzel's essay was awarded by the faculty with the first prize. In 1818 it was printed in Breslau with a foreword by Thaddäus Anton Dereser . Frenzel's thesis and his writing received attention and entered - be it with contradiction or with consent - in the contemporary canon law discussion.

From 1818 to 1820 Frenzel was Kaplan in Zülz , then for one year director ad interim of the teachers' college in Oberglogau (of which he was once a student). In 1821 he was appointed to the "Academy" called Philosophical-Theological Faculty in Braunsberg ( Warmia ). He was initially a professor of pastoral theology and canon law , from 1822 for biblical exegesis . In 1826 he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. In 1831 he became canon in Frauenburg, and in 1835 vicar general of the Diocese of Warmia. In this office he promoted the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Catherine . During two vacancies of the Warmia bishopric he was from October 1836 to March 1838 and once again " General Administrator " of the Diocese of Warmia. Joseph von Eichendorff valued Frenzel and advocated bringing him back to Silesia and making him cathedral provost in Breslau. However, Frenzel stayed in Warmia.

On September 27, 1852 Anton Frenzel was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Warmia and titular bishop of Areopolis . The episcopal ordination donated him on March 7, 1853 in Pelplin Bishop Anastasius Sedlag von Kulm . Before that, during the informative process before his episcopal ordination, he had moved away from the theses that he had advocated in 1817. In his second paper, published in 1863, on the question of whether the indissolubility of marriage is a dogma, he affirmed it.

Anton Frenzel died on April 3, 1873 in Frauenburg.

Fonts

  • Num dogma catholicum est, matrimonii vinculum inter vivos coniuges nullo in casu solvi posse? Willibald August Hölaufer, Breslau 1818. ( digitized version )
  • De indissolubilitate matrimonii commentarius . Schöningh, Paderborn 1863.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Art. Frenzel, Anton . In: Franz Josef Waitzenegger (Hrsg.): Scholars and Writers Lexicon of the German Catholic Clergy , Vol. 3. Joseph Thomann, Landshut 1822, pp. 152–155.
  • Anton Eichhorn : The auxiliary bishops of Warmia . In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Vol. 3 (1864-1866), pp. 139-165.
  • August Meer, Joseph Jungnitz : Character images from the clergy of Silesia. New episode . Aderholz, Breslau 1898, pp. 110–112.
  • Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Frenzel, Anton F. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 351.
  • Paweł Czaplewski: Frenzel Antoni (1790–1873) . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny (PSB), Vol. 7. Krakau 1958. pp. 131–132.
  • Walter Dürig : Anton Frenzel's Breslauer theological price publication (1817) on the indissolubility of marriage . In: Ulrich Mosiek , Hartmut Zapp (ed.): Ius et salus animarum. Festschrift for Bernhard Panzram . Rombach, Freiburg 1972, ISBN 3-7930-0625-5 , pp. 439-451.
  • Robert Samulski: Anton Frenzel. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 209.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Art. Frenzel, Anton . In: Franz Josef Waitzenegger (Hrsg.): Gelehrten- und Schriftsteller-Lexikon der deutschen Catholic Geistlichkeit , Vol. 3, 1822, pp. 152–155, here p. 152.
  2. ^ Art. Frenzel, Anton . In: Franz Josef Waitzenegger (Hrsg.): Scholars and Writers Lexicon of the German Catholic Clergy , Vol. 3, 1822, pp. 152–155, here p. 153.
  3. ^ Silesian writers in the years 1827–1829 . In: Monthly of and for Silesia , vol. 2 (1829), pp. 532–540, here p. 538.
  4. ^ Art. Frenzel, Anton . In: Franz Josef Waitzenegger (Hrsg.): Scholars and Writers Lexicon of the German Catholic Clergy , Vol. 3, 1822, pp. 152–155, here p. 154.
  5. ↑ Canonical monographs . In: Literarischer Handweiser , vol. 1864, pp. 100-101.
  6. ↑ Sebald Brendel : Handbook of Catholic and Protestant Church Law. With historical explanations and constant consideration of the latest church conditions in the German federal states . Drausnick, Bamberg 1827, p. 646.
  7. ^ Josef Bender: History of the philosophical and theological studies in Warmia. Festschrift of the Royal Lyceum Hosianum zu Braunsberg for its 50th anniversary celebration and to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the Hosian Institutes in general . Braunsberg 1868, p. 162.
  8. ↑ Antoni młotek: Teologia Katolicka na Uniwersytecie wrocławskim . Signum, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-87318-07-8 , pp. 161–162.
  9. ↑ Relinde Meiwes: From East Prussia to the world. The story of the Warmia Sisters of St. Catherine (1772–1914) . Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77087-5 , p. 117.
  10. ^ A b Anton Eichhorn: The auxiliary bishops of Warmia . In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Volume 3, pp. 139–165, here p. 165.
  11. ^ A b Ernst Josef Krzywon: Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) in his interrelationships with the diocesan clergy of the diocese of Breslau . In: Joachim Köhler (ed.): History of Christian life in the Silesian region . Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5007-2 , Vol. 2, pp. 731-756, here p. 751.
  12. ^ Annuario Pontificio , 1870 edition, p. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Frenzel, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian and auxiliary bishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostenthal
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1873
Place of death Frauenburg