Christophorus Becker

Christophorus Edmund Becker , SDS , (born October 20, 1875 in Elsoff as Christoph Edmund Becker , † March 30, 1937 in Würzburg ) was a German missionary and university professor. He founded the Medical Mission Institute in Würzburg and became its director.

Life

During his time at high school, Christoph Becker was interested in the mission and at the age of 14 he joined the Society of the Divine Savior (Salvatorians), where he was given the religious name Christophorus, which he used from then on. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Rome and obtained his doctorate. theol. et phil. In 1898 he was ordained a priest, and in 1900 he became a lecturer in Merano .

In 1906 he was appointed apostolic prefect of Assam in India and then served in the Salvatorian mission. After he was arrested by the British in World War I, he returned to the German Empire in 1916, where he went to the Western Front to work as a field preacher.

Since his health had deteriorated, he did not return to India, but founded the Medical Mission Institute in Würzburg on December 3, 1922, of which he became director. This institute specialized in the medical training of professionals for the mission.

In 1925 he became a lecturer in missiology at the University of Würzburg . He held an honorary professorship.

He lived in Würzburg at Salvatorstrasse 7, where the Medical Mission Institute is still based today.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 79

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Individual evidence

↑ This date of birth comes from Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 79. Notwithstanding this, there is also October 22nd in more recent sources.
↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 457 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Christophorus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Becker, Christoph; Becker, Christoph Edmund; Becker, Christophorus Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German missionary and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elsoff (Westerwald)
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1937
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] This date of birth comes from Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 79. Notwithstanding this, there is also October 22nd in more recent sources.

[2] Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 457 f.