Anton Huonder

Anton Huonder.

Anton Huonder SJ (born December 25, 1858 in Chur , † August 23, 1926 in Bonn ) was a Swiss Catholic theologian and writer .

Life

Anton Huonder was the son of the Romansh writer Gion Antoni Huonder . He attended the court school in Chur , then from 1868 to 1874 by Benedictine monks led convent school in Disentis and the Collegiate School in Engelberg Abbey . In 1875 he passed the Matura in Feldkirch, Austria , and then entered the Jesuit order . Since the Jesuits were banned in Switzerland at that time and exposed to severe repression in the German Empire as a result of the Kulturkampf , Huonder completed his studies from 1875 to 1891 at the study houses of the Order in Valkenburg in the Netherlands and in Ditton Hall in England , where he was ordained a priest in 1888 .

After several years in America, he returned to Europe. Here he was mainly active as a retreat leader and pastor for priests . In addition, he published a number of treatises on the history of the Catholic mission ; He was also a member of the editorial team of the magazine " The Catholic Missions ", of which he was editor-in-chief from 1901 to 1912 and from 1916 to 1918. Huonder was known for his critical attitude to the prevailing "Europeanism" in the Catholic mission of his time and campaigned for the promotion of a national clergy in the mission countries as well as the adaptation of Catholicism to the respective social conditions (so-called accommodation ).

In addition to specialist books on Catholic missions and articles for mission magazines, Anton Huonder also wrote narrative works for children and young people, most of which appeared in the series “From faraway lands” that he oversees. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages; some were put on up to eighteen times.

Fonts

Stories for children and young people

• The oath of the Huron chief. Story from the older mission history of Canada , Freiburg im Breisgau 1894
• One red and one white rose. The red rose: Abd'ul Masich, the young martyr of Singara. A sheet from the Martyrs' Acts of the Orient. The white rose: Hadra, the little confessor. A story from Algiers , Freiburg im Breisgau 1899
• The "holy well" of Chitzen-Itza . A story from Old Yucatan , Freiburg im Breisgau, 1908
• The foundling from Hong Kong and other stories , Freiburg im Breisgau 1907
• The Mercedarian's Revenge . A story from the Middle Ages , Freiburg im Breisgau 1910
• The white fat cat's mug. A story from Japan , Freiburg im Breisgau 1912
• Gill and Blas, or: Around the world with Magellan , Freiburg im Breisgau 1914

Contributions to mission history and mission theology

• Pastor Pfotenhauer and the "Jesuit Educational Principles". A contribution to the appreciation of the work "The missions of the Jesuits in Paraguay" , Berlin 1896
• German Jesuit missionaries of the 17th and 18th centuries , Freiburg im Breisgau 1899
• The local clergy in the Heidenländer , Freiburg im Breisgau 1909
• The missionary obligation of German Catholics , Freiburg im Breisgau, 1909
• The mission in the pulpit and in the club. Collection of sermons, lectures and sketches about the Catholic missions , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Vol. 1 (1912)
  • Vol. 2 (1913)
  • Vol. 3 (1914)
• The Association for the Propagation of Faith , Freiburg im Breisgau 1913
• On the history of the Mission Theater , Aachen 1918
• The Chinese rite controversy , Aachen 1921
• Europeanism in missionary operations , Aachen 1921
• St. Ignatius von Loyola and the missionary profession of the Society of Jesus , Aachen 1922
• The merits of the Catholic Gentile Mission to the art of printing in overseas countries from 16-18. Century , Aachen 1923

Biographies

• Standard bearer of the cross. Life pictures of Catholic missionaries , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1 (1913)
  • 2 (1915)
• Ignatius von Loyola , Cologne 1932

Religious considerations

• At the master's feet. Brief reflections for busy priests , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Vol. 1: The working day , 1913
  • Vol. 2: The Night of Suffering , 1925
  • Vol. 3: The Transfiguration Morning , 1929
  • Vol. 4: The Dawn , 1930

Editing

• Olivier Louis Allaire : Among the blacks in the Congo , Freiburg im Breisgau 1910

literature

• Suso Brechte:  Huonder, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 71 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ludwig Koch (ed.): Jesuit encyclopedia: The Society of Jesus once and now. Verlag Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1934, p. 834 f.
• Ferdinand Strobel : Swiss Jesuit Lexicon. 2 volumes. Swiss Province SJ, Zurich 1986, p. 270.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Huonder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Josef Stierli : Anton Huonder. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Short biography of Anton Huonders at kath-info.de
• Anton Huonder in the Internet Archive