Eduard Herzog (Provost)

Eduard Herzog (born December 5, 1801 in Frankenstein , Silesia , † April 17, 1867 in Pelplin ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman , theologian and writer .

Life

Herzog's early training is unknown. He attended the University of Wroclaw and studied Catholic theology there . On March 11, 1826, he was ordained a priest in Breslau . First he went to Neisse and Groß-Glogau as a chaplain , then he became a pastor in Grüssau . Already during this time he appeared as a popular preacher and writer.

Duke was the Bishop of Kulm Anastasius Sedlag the canon and the rain of the Pelplin Seminary appointed. He quickly rose to become Sedlag's main adviser and was appointed provost of the cathedral . From 1842 he published the Katholisches Wochenblatt from East and West Prussia . In 1848 he accompanied the bishop to the Würzburg bishops' conference . Under the successor of the bishop, Johannes von der Marwitz , Herzog withdrew completely from diocesan administration after the autumn of 1856.

In December 1847 the Theological Faculty of the University of Münster awarded him an honorary theological doctorate . He also held the title of Episcopal Spiritual Council as early as 1840 .

Publications (selection)

• Religious teaching for children , Neisse, Leipzig 1830.
• The caricatures of the church founded by Jesus Christ , Kollmann, Augsburg 1833.
• Consequences of an old pastor. A series of prosaic rhapsodies in the field of the philosophy of religion , 1833 (2nd edition under: Man, the Church and the Hermesian System according to its basic character , Neisse, Leipzig 1836).
• The Catholic pastor according to his official duties and duties, with special consideration for the laws of the Prussian state , 3 volumes, Graß / Barth, Breslau 1840.
• The administration of the penitential sacrament , Schöningh, Paderborn 1859.

literature

• Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Duke, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 264.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data sheet on Herzog's honorary doctorate at uni-muenster.de (accessed on March 15, 2017).
2. ^ Repertory of the Entire German Literature , Volume 23, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1840, p. 493.

Remarks

1. ↑ In the ADB the place is called Güssau. However, there is no such place. Due to the geographic proximity but only G is r üssau be the site in question.