Christoph Weber (historian)

Christoph Weber (born June 7, 1943 in Graz ) is a German historian . He was a professor of modern history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life

Christoph Weber's parents were journalists Theodor J. Weber and Dr. phil. Edina von Zambaur. His maternal grandfather was the orientalist and numismatist Eduard von Zambaur . After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Koblenz, he first studied history in Bonn from 1963 to 1964, then Catholic theology at the Trier Theological Faculty and, from 1966, again history at the University of Bonn . In 1967 he acquired the academic degree Magister Artium under the supervision of Franz Petri , in 1969 he received his doctorate with the thesis Church Politics between Rome, Berlin and Trier 1876–1888. The settlement of the Prussian Kulturkampf under the supervision of Konrad Repgen . From 1970 to 1972 he was a scholarship holder at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and spent a long time at the Collegio di SM del Camposanto Teutonico. In April 1972 he became an assistant to Prof. Klaus Müller at the chair for the history of the early modern period at the University of Düsseldorf. In 1975 he qualified as a professor for medieval and modern history. From 1979 to 1980 he was visiting lecturer at the German Historical Institute in Rome, from 1982 university professor in Düsseldorf ( C 2 ). He was able to carry out his research projects with the help of the Görres Society, the NRW Ministry of Science, the Düsseldorf professor Klaus Müller and especially the German Research Foundation , which for many years granted him a research assistant and various trips to Italy. The retirement took place in September 2005.

Christoph Weber is the author of numerous publications on 19th century German history, research on Catholicism, papal history and prosopography . He is editor of the series Contributions to Church and Cultural History (Verlag Peter Lang), co-editor of the series Ortstermine. Historical finds and findings from the German provinces (Rheinlandia Verlag, until 2008), co-editor of the series “Popes and Papacy” (2000–2014) and consulting editor of the series of Cologne publications on the history of religion (Böhlau Verlag Cologne).

Fonts

Monographs:

• Church politics between Rome, Berlin and Trier. The settlement of the Prussian Kulturkampf . Mainz 1970.
• Enlightenment and Orthodoxy on the Middle Rhine 1820–1850. Paderborn 1973.
• Sources and studies on the Curia and Vatican politics under Leo XIII. Tübingen 1973.
• Cardinals and prelates in the last decades of the Papal States. Elite recruitment, career patterns and social composition of the curial leadership class at the time of Pius IX. (1846-1878). two volumes, Stuttgart 1978.
• The "Spahn Case" (1901). A contribution to the science and culture discussion at the end of the 19th century. Rome 1980.
• Church history, censorship and self-censorship. Cologne 1984.
• Family canonicals and patronage bishops. A contribution to the history of the nobility and clergy in modern Italy. Berlin 1988.
• The territories of the Papal States in the 18th century. Mainly depicted from the papers of Cardinal Stefano Borgia. Frankfurt / Bern 1991.
• "A strong, tight-knit phalanx". Political Catholicism and the first German Reichstag election in 1871. Essen 1992.
• Legati e Governatori dello Stato Pontificio (1550–1809). Roma 1994.
• The religious philosopher Johannes Hessen (1889–1971). A scholarly life between modernism and left-wing Catholicism. Frankfurt / Bern 1994.
• Senatus Divinus. Hidden structures in the college of cardinals in the early modern period (1500–1800). Frankfurt / Bern 1996.
• Genealogies of the Pope's history. 6 volumes, Stuttgart 1999–2002.
• Bishops, vicars general and archpriests. A contribution to the history of ecclesiastical leadership positions in the Kingdom of Naples in the early modern period. Frankfurt / Bern 2000.
• The papal trainee lawyers 1566–1809. Chronology and prosopography. 3 volumes, Stuttgart 2003–2004.
• The military anniversary cross. The Knights of Zambaur and the nobility of officers in the Danube Monarchy (1800–1918 / 45). Hamburg 2004.
• Episcopus et Princeps. Italian bishops as princes, counts and barons from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Frankfurt / Bern 2010.

Editions:

• Liberal Catholicism. Biographical and ecclesiastical essays by Franz Xaver Kraus. Edited and introduced, Tübingen 1983.
• The oldest papal state manuals. Elenchus Congregationum, Tribunalium et Collegiorum Urbis 1629-1714. Freiburg / Rome 1991.
• The Roman Curia around 1900. Selected essays by Paul. M. Baumgarten. Cologne 1986.
• Between Hitler and Pius XII. Heinrich Brüning and his Dutch friends Mgr. Henri Poels, Rector Piet Mommersteeg and Dr. AJM Cornelissen. Letters and Documents (1936–1958). Hamburg 2007.
• Popes and Cardinals in the middle of the 18th century (1730–1777). The biographical work of the patrician of Lucca Bartolomeo Antonio Talenti. Edited by Sabrina M. Seidler and Christoph Weber, Frankfurt / Bern 2007.
• L'horreur des Jésuites. Memoranda, decrees, diplomatic dispatches and journalistic Lettres de Rome from the time of Clement XIII, Clemens XIV and Pius VI. (1767-1780). Hamburg 2013.
• Idée générale de Clément XIV. An anonymous biography from a Jesuit pen (1776). Hamburg 2014.
• The Pureté du Dogme et de la Morale. Lettres de Rome on the theological controversies in the epoch of Clement XIV and Cardinal Mario Marefoschi (1760 to 1780). Frankfurt 2016.
• Jansenism and the office of bishop. CVs of 50 Americans de la vérité in the French episcopate of the 18th century. Frankfurt 2017.
• Unigenitus Dei Filius. 25 texts and biographies on the damaging bull against Pasquier Quesnel (1713). Frankfurt 2019
• The intrigues of the Jesuits against bishops, priests and religious. Five Jansenist texts from the 18th century. Berlin 2020.

Articles (selection):

• The parish system and the church central authorities in Koblenz in the 19th century. In: Archive for the Middle Rhine. Church history. 20: 103-140 (1968).
• A church-political memorandum by FX Kraus and the dispute over the legal nature of the Concordats. In: Roman quarterly. 67: 83-116 (1972).
• The College of Cardinals in the Final Years of Pius IX In: Arch. Hist.Pont. Vol. 11 (1973), pp. 323-351.
• Letters and files on the Trier diocese occupation in 1881. In: Roman quarterly. 69: 68-117 (1974).
• Germany, Italy and the 1903 conclave . In: QFIAB. 57: 199-260 (1977).
• Dans les couloirs du Vatican. The fight of the Cardinals Czacki and Galimberti for the political direction in the Vatican in the mirror of literature, press and diplomacy. In: Historical yearbook. 101: 38-129 (1981).
• La Corte di Roma nell'Ottocento. In: La Corte nella cultura e nella storiografia. Immagini e posizioni tra Otto e Novecento. Roma 1983, pp. 167-204.
• Heinrich Finke between academic imparity and church anti-liberalism. In: Annalen des hist. Ver. for the Lower Rhine. 186: 139-165 (1983).
• Mons. Giacomo Giandemaria (1639–1690), governatore per la Santa Sede ed i suoi scritti inediti. In: Boll. sturgeon. piacentino. 82: 168-182 (1987).
• Papacy and Nobility in the 19th Century. In: Les noblesses européennes au XIXe siècle, Rome / Paris. 1988, pp. 607-657.
• German Catholicism and the challenge of Protestant education. In: educated middle class in the 19th century. Part II (Bildungsgüter und Bildungswissen), Stuttgart 1990, pp. 139–176.
• The Vicegerente of the Vicariate of Rome in the 17th century and his "greatest plague". In: ZRG. Can. Abt. Vol. 80 (1994), pp. 301-354.
• The titular bishops of Pope Benedict XIII. (1724-1730). A contribution to the history of the episcopate and the Roman curia. In: Book censorship - Curia - Catholicism and modernity. Festschrift for Herman H. Schwedt. Frankfurt / Bern 2000, pp. 107-144.
• On the way to becoming a papal historian. Ludwig Pastor's examination of Wilhelm Wattenbach's “History of the Roman Papacy” from 1876. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association. Vol. 102 (1999/2000), pp. 376-412.
• Il Referendariato di ambe le Segnature, a forma speciale del "servizio pubblico" della Corte di Roma e dello Stato Pontificio. In: Offices et Papauté (XIVe - XVIIe siècles). Rome / Paris 2005, pp. 565-591.
• The papal house prelate Dr iur. Dr. theol. hc Paul Maria Baumgarten and the German Rome. A sketch from the golden age of archival research in the epoch of Leo XIII. In: Roman quarterly. Vol. 101 (2006), pp. 60-74.
• “Faire revivre l'arbre entier” - The release of the captured Jesuits from Castel Sant'Angelo (1776/76) according to the reports of the Elector of Cologne Minister Marchese Tommaso Antici from Rome. In: Rheinisch - Kölnisch - Katholisch. Festschrift for Heinz Finger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Cologne 2008, pp. 291–314.
• Saint Clément Ganganelli. Some early reports of miracles performed by Pope Clement XIV after his death. In: Signum in Bonum. Festschrift for Wilhelm Imkamp on his 60th birthday. Regensburg 2011, pp. 685-712.
• Michael Klöcker: Way and Work. In: Michael Klöcker, Religions and Catholicism, Education and History Didactics, Labor Movement. Selected essays. Frankfurt 2011, pp. 15–31.
• "My convictions are those of the old woman who mumbles her prayers in the corner of the church". Marginalia and aphorisms Nicolás Gomez Dávilas. In: Church and Society through the Ages. Festschrift for Gabriel Adriányi on his 75th birthday. Nordhausen 2012, pp. 569-584.
• Did St. Alfonso overcome probabilism? Six critical texts on the debate about moral systems from the years 1761–1766. In: Catholics in the long 19th century. Festschrift for Otto Weiß. Regensburg 2014, pp. 21–56.
• Good and bad cardinals. The public perception of different ways of life of a visible power elite (17th – 18th centuries) . In: Bernward Schmidt. Hubert Wolf (Ed.): Ecclesiological alternatives? Monarchical papat and forms of collegial church leadership (15th – 20th centuries). Münster 2013, pp. 257–269.

literature

• Gisela Fleckenstein, Michael Klöcker and Norbert Schloßmacher (ed.): Church history. Old and new ways. Festschrift for Christoph Weber. 2 volumes. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008 (curriculum vitae, pp. 989–990; catalog of works, pp. 991–1007; list of supervised dissertations, pp. 1007–1009).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Weber in the catalog of the German National Library