August Bernhard Hasler

August Bernhard Hasler (* 1937 ; † July 2, 1980 in Munich ) was a Swiss Catholic theologian and historian .

Life

Hasler worked in the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity for four and a half years until 1971. In this capacity he published a work on the Luther image in the Catholic Church in 1968 . In 1971 he left the Roman Curia in public protest against the restorative tendencies prevailing there. He then worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In 1976 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich with a critical thesis on Pope Pius IX. and the First Vatican Council 1869/70. In 1979 Piper in Munich published a popular scientific short version of his dissertation under the title: How the Pope became infallible: the power and impotence of a dogma. The Hamburg magazine Der Spiegel reported in 1979 on alleged attempts by the Catholic Church to remove Hasler from the priesthood because of this work. The second edition of Hasler's book appeared in 1980 with a foreword by Hans Küng . Georg Denzler expanded the paperback edition published in 1981 .

Hasler died of lymph gland cancer in 1980 while researching a new work on the leadership cult of the Italian fascists .

Works

• Luther in Catholic dogmatics (= contributions to ecumenical theology. Volume 2). Hueber, Munich 1968.
• Pius IX 1846–1878, papal infallibility and 1st Vatican Council: dogmatization and implementation of an ideology. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3-7772-7710-3 .
• How the Pope became infallible: the power and impotence of dogma. With a foreword by Hans Küng. 2nd edition, Piper, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 978-3-548-34053-1 .
• The Duce Image in Fascist Literature. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries, Vol. 60, 1980, pp. 420–506.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Died. August Bernhard Hasler. In: Der Spiegel 28/1980. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
2. ↑ Church. Red cloth. In: Der Spiegel 37/1979. Retrieved October 26, 2015.