Anton Philipp Brück

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Anton Philipp Brück (born April 16, 1913 in Bingen am Rhein ; † December 15, 1984 ) was a German priest and university professor .

Life

After leaving school in Bingen and studying theology at the Mainz seminary Anton Bruck received in the January 6, 1937 Mainz the priesthood . Then he worked in church pastoral care. After a while he was released to study. He first went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a student . Here he completed his history studies with a doctorate . His doctoral supervisor was Paul Kirn and his doctoral thesis was the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Johann von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein . During his studies he was supported by the Mainz Bishop Albert Stohr . In November 1944 he became scientific director of the library of the seminary, today's Martinus library , and head of the cathedral and diocesan archives. In the post-war period he received his doctorate in church history under Ludwig Lenhart at the newly founded Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . The doctoral topic was the Archbishopric Mainz and the Tridentinum . In 1947, Brück was the first doctoral candidate in the Catholic theological faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

In 1947, Brück was one of the founders of the Society for Church History in the Middle Rhine Region . In 1951 he was finally with a postdoctoral thesis on the theology faculty of the old University of Mainz in the 18th century habilitation . He then taught as a private lecturer at the Catholic theological faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University. In 1955 he was finally given a chair as a full professor of church history . Brück now dealt with both medium and more recent church history. Other areas of research were the academic and intellectual history , the Rheinhessen and Mainz history and religious history . In addition, he was also active as a publisher. For example, for the 1000th anniversary of Mainz Cathedral in 1975 and for the anniversary of Hildegard von Bingen in 1979, he edited important commemorative publications that are now considered standard works of German cultural, church and intellectual history. In 1978 he was at the age of 65 years emeritus . In honor of and in recognition of Anton Philipp Brück's work, he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Bingen am Rhein.

Anton Philipp Brück was a cousin of Stefan George and a relative of the Mainz church historian and bishop Heinrich Brück .

His students include Friedhelm Jürgensmeier , Rolf Decot and Helmut Hinkel , the director of the Martinus Library in Mainz .

The philosophy historian Kurt Flasch describes Brück as his "foster father". He said of the prelate : "A wonderful man from Bingen am Rhein, who taught me to drink wine."

Publications (selection)

  • The Mainz Theological Faculty in the 18th century. (Contributions to the history of the University of Mainz 2), (1955)
  • Franz Brentano's judgment on young Schell. In: Würzburg diocesan history sheets. Volume 16/17, 1954/1955, p. 399 f.
  • 600 years of the city of Gau-Algesheim: 1355–1955 - From culture a. Story d. City (1955)
  • Friedrich Schneider (1836-1907). A contribution to the German intellectual history of the 19th century. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 9 (1957), pp. 166–194
  • Kurmainzer school history: texts, reports, memoranda (1960)
  • Mainz from the loss of city freedom to the end of the Thirty Years War (1462–1648) (1972)
  • Contributions to Mainz Church History in Modern Times (1973)
  • Willigis and his cathedral. Festschrift for the millennium celebration of the Mainz Cathedral 975-1975. (Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine region, Volume 24), (1975)
  • Philipp Kneib (1870–1915) - the successor to Herman Schell in Würzburg. In: Würzburg diocesan history sheets. Volume 37/38, 1975 ( Church and Theology in Franconia, Festschrift for Theodor Kramer. ) P. 127–140.
  • Hildegard von Bingen: 1179–1979 - Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the death of the saints (1979)
  • Serta Moguntina: Contributions to the Middle Rhine Church History ( posthumously 1989)

literature

  • Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz - personalities of the city's history. Volume II: Persons of religious life, persons of political life, persons of general cultural life, scientists, writers, artists, musicians. Printer and publishing house Gebr. Kügler, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-924124-03-9 , pp. 200-201.
  • Kurt Flasch: The rescue of the Schlosser's library 1943/44. Remembering A [nton]. P [hilipp]. B [back]. In: Goethe cult and Catholic romanticism. Fritz Schlosser (1780–1851), ed. by Helmut Hinkel (New Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz special edition 2001/2002), Mainz 2002, pp. 221–230
  • Kurt Flasch: Over the bridge. Childhood in Mainz 1930-1949. (Kleine Mainzer Bücherei Vol. 18), Mainz 2002.
  • Helmut Hinkel (ed.): Anton Ph. Brück. Commemorative sheets for the 25th anniversary of death. (From the Martinus Library 8), Mainz 2010.
  • Claus Arnold : Anton Philipp Brück (1913-1984). Profile of a Mainz church historian. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 62 (2010), pp. 370–386.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz - personalities of city history. Volume II. 1989, pp. 200-201.
  2. ↑ On the history of the Mainz Cathedral and Diocesan Archives at catholic-archive.de
  3. ^ History and profile of the seminar for church history ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  4. ↑ a b Honorary members of the Association of Heimatfreunde am Mittelrhein eV on the website of regionalgeschichte.net (publisher: Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz )
  5. ↑ a b Marc Reichwein: Hell, Hell, Hell! In: welt.de . May 27, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ https://bistummainz.de/export/sites/bistum/kunst-gebaeude-geschichte/kirchengeschichte/.galleries/downloads/IMzKG-25-Jahre.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.stclemens.org/DEUTWDecot
  8. ↑ http://www.bistummainz.de/bistum/bistum/ordinariat/dezernate/dezernat_Z/pressestelle/index.html?f_action=show&f_newsitem_id=38896
personal data
SURNAME Brück, Anton Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest, professor, prelate and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1984