Carl Gerold Prince

Carl Gerold Fürst (2010)

Carl Gerold Fürst (born February 17, 1933 in Vienna ; † August 7, 2012 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian canon lawyer . He was one of the leading experts on Eastern Church Law and from 1978 to 1990 was in charge of the revision of the code of law for the churches of the Orient united with Rome .

Life

Carl Gerold Fürst studied law at the University of Vienna from 1951 to 1960, as well as philosophy and Catholic theology in Innsbruck and Rome . In 1960 he received his doctorate in law in Vienna . He was a research assistant at the University of Innsbruck and at the Institute for Canon Law at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg . After his habilitation in 1966, he received the license to teach canon law at the law and political science faculty of Salzburg University . On October 1st, 1970 he was appointed associate professor in Salzburg.

In 1971 he was offered a professorship for canon law, especially ecclesiastical legal history, at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . 1980 to 1982 he was dean of the theological faculty, later vice dean. In 1998 he retired .

Carl Gerold Fürst was in the leadership of the interdenominational society for the law of the Eastern Churches for over 20 years and was its honorary president. He was on the board of directors of the Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo for over 10 years . He regularly gave lectures in his field of Eastern Church Law at the canonical faculties of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome , at the Roman Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the Catholic Péter Pázmány University in Budapest .

Carl Gerold Fürst was Commander of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He was also a member of the Catholic student associations KÖStV Nibelungia Vienna and KDStV Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau .

Act

Carl Gerold Fürst (center) receiving an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (2010)

Fürst was considered to be one of the most well-known and distinguished scholars in the field of law in the Eastern Uniate Churches. In his teaching and research focus, he published numerous scientific papers.

Fürst was involved in numerous commissions and committees. He was a permanent and approved lawyer for all instances at the archiepiscopal officials in Freiburg , Bamberg and Cologne and at the episcopal officials in Rottenburg-Stuttgart and Trier .

He was a member of the permanent commission of the German , Austrian and Swiss Bishops 'Conference as well as the Bishop of Luxembourg for the publication of liturgical books in the German-speaking area since 1969 and a member of the permanent commission of the German and Austrian Bishops' Conference for the publication of the praise of God since 1970.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1978 as a consultor in the Pontifical Commission for the revision of the Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (CCEO), the code of law that came into force in 1991 for the so-called Uniate Eastern Churches, which also belong to the Catholic Church (1978–1990). Pope John Paul II thanked him by name in his address on the presentation of the code of law for the Eastern Catholic Churches at the 28th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on October 25, 1990.

Since 1990 he has been consultor of the Pontifical Commission for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts . Since 1993 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Consociatio Internationalis Iuris Canonici Promovendo. In 1994/95, Fürst was president of the scientific committee for the Symposium International sur le Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium at the University of St. Esprit in Kaslik, north of Beirut in Lebanon .

As chairman of the Eastern Churches Working Group in Freiburg im Breisgau (1979 to 1985 and again since 1989) he set the tone in ecumenism . From 1983 to 1991 he was general secretary of the International Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches. Since 1989 he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Romanian Institute / Romanian Library in Freiburg. Since 1991, Prince was President of the International and Interdenominational Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches.

Honors

• 1966 - Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Cardinalis habilitation thesis . Prolegomena to a Legal History of the Roman College of Cardinals
• 1994 - Award of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 1999 - Appointment as Grand Officer (Komtur with star) of the Papal Order of Gregory by Pope John Paul II.
• 2010 - Honorary Doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

Fonts

author

• Cardinalis: Prolegomena to a Legal History of the Roman College of Cardinals , W. Fink Munich 1967 (habilitation thesis)
• "Statim ordinetur episcopus" or The Papal Documents "sub bulla dimidia", Innocent III. And the beginning of papal power , Wagner 1977
• Some Greek voices on autocephaly , Augustinus-Verlag 1981
• The draft criminal law of the papal commission for the revision of the oriental Codex Iuris Canonici , publisher of the Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, 1985
• Aspects of "Church and Society" in Canons of the 12th Century , 1991
• The Church as Communio Ecclesiarum: Some Terminological Notes on a Topic (Still) Topical , 1992
• Canones synopsis for the Codex iuris canonici and Codex canonum ecclesiarum orientalium , Herder Freiburg im Breisgau 1992 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-451-22636-7
• The significance of the Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium for the Eastern Church Diaspora , 1993
• On the interdependence of Latin and Oriental canon law: Some remarks on canon law of the Catholic Church , Pustet 1994
• Concordat and variety of rites , Kovar Eichenau 1994
• On the question of the church tax liability of "Greek Catholics" in Bavaria , Austrian Society for Canon Law 1994
• The Synods in the New Oriental Canon Law , Universitätsverlag 1996
• Marriage as a state and as a process , Otto Müller Verlagsges. 1997, ISBN 3-7013-0534-X , together with Wilhelm Josef Revers
• Baptism, church membership and "status" of believers from a canonical perspective , Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Winfried Schulz in memoriam: Writings from Canon Law and State Church Law , Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-33073-1 , together with Cesare Mirabelli, Giorgio Feliciani, Helmuth Pree
• The Caucasian Churches , Kovar Eichenau 2004 (Volume 18 of Canon: Yearbook of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches), ISBN 3-925845-99-2

editor

• The "Protos" and its jurisdiction , Association of the Austrian Scientific Society 1989, ISBN 3-85369-746-1
• Church and State in the Christian East , Association of the Austrian Scientific Society 1991, ISBN 3-85369-834-4
• Canon dikaion kai oikumenika: timētikon aphierōma eis ton mētropolitēn Tyroloēs kai Serentiu Panteleēmona Rodopulon , Kovar Eichenau 1999, ISBN 3-925845-84-4
• Mother, nun, deaconess: images of women according to Eastern canon law , Kovar Eichenau 2000, ISBN 3-925845-89-5

literature

• Hartmut Zapp / Andreas Weiß / Stefan Korta (eds.): Ius Canonicum in Oriente et Occidente - Festschrift for Carl Gerold Fürst on his 70th birthday (= Adnotationes in ius canonicum 25), Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-39480- 2
• Elmar Güthoff / Stefan Korta / Andreas Weiß (eds.): Adnotationes in Ius Canonicum - Clarissimo Professori Doctori Carolo Giraldo Fürst - In memoriam Carl-Gerold Fürst, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63657-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Gerold Fürst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Carl Gerold Fürst  in the German Digital Library
• Biography of Carl Gerold Fürst (University of Freiburg)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice University of Freiburg
2. ^ Austria: Canon lawyer Fürst died , kipa, August 10, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ius Canonicum in Oriente et Occidente , Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , accessed on August 30, 2012.
4. ^ Obituary of Rector Heinrich Schmidinger, University of Salzburg , Salzburger Nachrichten, accessed August 30, 2012.
5. ^ Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches , University of Vienna , accessed on August 30, 2012.
6. ^ Romanian presence in Freiburg in Breisgau , ortodoxia.de, August 30, 2012.
7. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Univ.Prof. Dr. CG Fürst, Freiburg / Freilassing , openpr, October 20, 2010.