Bernhard August Thiel

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Bernhard August Thiel , also Bernardo Augusto Thiel y Hoffmann (born April 1, 1850 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † September 9, 1901 in San José , Costa Rica ) was bishop of the diocese of San José in Costa Rica.

Life

Memorial plaque for Bernhard August Thiel at the St. Laurentius Church in Wuppertal-Elberfeld

Bernhard August Thiel was born as the son of Helena Hoffmann and Josef Thiel. After graduating from high school, he entered the order of the Lazarists in Cologne in 1869 and was ordained a priest on June 7, 1874 after completing his theology studies. In the same year his superiors sent him to the mission in Ecuador. In 1877 he traveled to Costa Rica to lead the Seminario de San José with other members of his order . On February 27, 1880, he was designated the third bishop of San José and on September 5, he was ordained bishop by Luigi Bruschetti, titular bishop of Abidos and administrator of the diocese. Just 30 years old (or 29 years old when he was appointed), he was the youngest bishop of the universal Church at the time.

The government of Próspero Fernández Oreamuno expelled Bishop Thiel from Costa Rica in July 1884. On May 27, 1886 he was able to return to Costa Rica. His encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII caused a stir . Inspired pastoral letter from 1893 “About the fair payment of day laborers and craftsmen and other current questions about the situation of the needy”, in which he u. a. attacked the unjust distribution of land and property as a whole.

Bishop Thiel went on numerous mission trips to indigenous areas in the north and south-east of Costa Rica. He wrote several works on religious, historical, ethnological and linguistic topics.

Fonts (in selection)

  • Explicación del catecismo de la doctrina cristiana . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891 (and numerous other editions).
  • Apuntes lexicográficos de las lenguas y dialectos de los Indios de Costa Rica . Imprenta nacional, San José 1882–1884 (several volumes).
  • Viajes a varias partes de la república de Costa Rica AC Instituto Físico-Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica, San José 1881-1896 (several volumes).
  • Estudios historiográficos , edited by Vernor Manuel Rojas Contreras and José Aurelio Sandí Morales. Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia (EUNED), San José 2011.

literature

  • Ana Isabel Herrera Sotillo: Monseñor Thiel en Costa Rica. Visitas Pastorales 1880-1901 . Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica, Cartago 2009.
  • Víctor Sanabria Martínez: Bernardo Augusto Thiel, segundo obispo de Costa Rica. Apuntamientos históricos . Editorial Costa Rica, San José 1982.
  • Gustavo Adolfo Soto-Valverde: Monsenor Bernardo Augusto Thiel Hoffman . In: Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, San José (ed.): Acta Académica . ISSN  1017-7507 . Issue November 1999.
  • Elías Zeledón Cartín (ed.): Crónica de los viajes a Guatuso y Talamanca del Obispo Bernardo Augusto Thiel (1881-1895) . Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beda Kleinschmidt : The German Abroad overseas and the Catholic missionary movement. With special consideration of Germany and Austria from 1875 to 1925 . Aschendorff, Münster 1926. p. 254.
  2. ^ Oscar Mata Pérez: Los Misioneros Vicentinos en Costa Rica. Formación del clero . In: Provincia de Costa Rica 1893-1993. Misioneros Vicentinos Alemanes - "Una presencia silenciosa en una vida de acción" (= special issue of the journal Conferencia Latinoamericana de Provincias Vicentinas - CLAPVI ), vol. 22 (1993), issue 80, pp. 231-236, here p. 233.
  3. ↑ Jose Aurelio Sandí-Morales: Costa Rica en la geopolitica de la Santa Sede. La representación papal en Centroamérica entre 1908-1936 . In: Revista Espiga , ISSN  1409-4002 , Vol. 15 (2016), No. 32, pp. 81-102.
  4. ^ Eugene D. Miller: A holy alliance? The church and the left in Costa Rica, 1932-1948 . ME Sharpe, Armonk 1996. ISBN 1-56324-910-3 , p. 24.
  5. ↑ Elías Zeledón Cartín (ed.): Crónica de los viajes a Guatuso y Talamanca del Obispo Bernardo Augusto Thiel (1881-1895) . Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 2003.

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predecessor Office successor
Luis Bruschetti Bishop of San José
1880–1901 		Juan Gaspar Stork
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Bernhard August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiel, Bernardo Agusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of San José, Costa Rica
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1901
Place of death San José , (Costa Rica)