Carl Böddinghaus

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Grave of Carl Böddinghaus with a commemorative plaque from 2003 in the central cemetery in Münster

Carl Böddinghaus , also Karl Boeddinghaus (born October 25, 1835 in Kamen ; † April 17, 1903 ), was a Roman Catholic priest of the diocese of Münster and a publicist . He is the initiator of the Catholic presence on Borkum .

Life

Böddinghaus attended grammar school in Münster , then entered the diocesan seminary and studied Catholic theology at the University of Münster . On February 11, 1862, he was ordained a priest and became a chaplain at St. Boniface's Church in London , which was bought by a Methodist congregation that same year for the German-speaking Catholic community . There he translated John Morris' The last illness of His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman into German in 1865 . In 1867 he returned to Münster and was chaplain at St. Aegidii until 1901 .

In 1870 Böddinghaus bought the magazine Westfälischer Merkur . As editor and author of many articles, he intervened in the clashes of Bismarck's culture war from a decidedly Catholic-Church perspective , which earned him and the co-authors fines and prison sentences. In 1883 he gave the magazine to a stock corporation. He also wrote articles for the Münstersche Pastoralblatt.

In 1878 Böddinghaus was a co-founder of the Augustinus Association for the care of the Catholic press , later also its president at times. In Münster he was President of the Catholic Journeyman's Association .

Since Böddinghaus suffered from asthma , he spent a spa stay on the North Sea island of Borkum. As an initiative “by spa guests for spa guests”, he built a Catholic chapel there, which was realized in 1880–1882 under the name Maria Meeresstern . He also founded the Sancta Maria children's recreation home on Borkum in 1901 , today a modern mother-child specialist clinic.

On the 100th anniversary of his death in 2003, bronze memorial plaques were placed on Böddinghaus' foundations in Borkum and on his grave in the Münster Central Cemetery . A street on Borkum is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Form of the name of the gravestone and the memorial plaque
  2. ↑ Wynfrid House London ( Memento of 26 April 2014 Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Cardinal Wiseman in his last illness ... translated by a priest of the German mission in London , Münster 1865; the translator is Böddinghaus (Lauchert, see lit.)
  4. ↑ Brockhaus (1894/96): Westphalian Merkur
  5. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon (1905): Westfälischer Merkur
  6. ↑ a b Mother and Child Specialist Clinic “Sancta Maria” - history of the house
  7. ↑ Church history

literature

personal data
SURNAME Böddinghaus, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boeddinghaus, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Came
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1903