Eduard Hosp

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Eduard Hosp (born July 22, 1886 in Satteins , † April 12, 1979 in Graz ) was an Austrian Redemptorist and church historian .

life and work

Origin and theological training

Hosp was born as the oldest of 16 children in Satteins near Feldkirch and grew up there. At the age of 13 he lost his mother. His stepmother, Franziska Häusle, was the great niece of the theologian Johann Michael Häusle . He attended high school in Brixen . Before graduation, he entered the Redemptorist Monastery in Eggenburg in 1904 and made his perpetual profession on October 24, 1905 . He finished high school in Leoben and studied from 1907 to 1912 at the Redemptorist Theological College in Mautern in Styria . He was ordained a priest there on July 31, 1911.

Historian, journalist and educator until 1938

Hosp studied history and art history at the University of Innsbruck and taught church history in Mautern and Gurk . 1921–1922 he still studied Christian archeology at the Gregoriana in Rome. In 1929 he became editor of the newly founded monthly St.-Klemens-Blätter. Monthly of the People's Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer (today: "Klemensblätter". Journal of the Austrian Redemptorists ) ordered. In 1930 he was transferred to the Redemptorist College Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt for health reasons , where he worked as prefect of studies and novice master .

Pastors, university directors and scientists

When Hosp gradually lost all of its functions from 1938 onwards because the college had been closed, the monthly magazine had been discontinued and the last seminarians had also moved in, he turned to pastoral care, first in Vienna, and from March to December 1945 in Schwarzenberg in the Bregenzerwald . In the post-war period he moved between Katzelsdorf (1946–1947), Mautern (1947–1951), Katzelsdorf (rector until 1959) and Mautern again. In 1966 he settled in Innsbruck for better scientific work , where he received an award from the university in 1968 after becoming a member of the Vienna Catholic Academy in 1960 .

The last few years. The honorary citizen

In old age he still worked as a pastor for the Redemptorists in Lauterach and in the Rosental monastery in Heiligenkreuz am Waasen (southeast of Graz). After his death at the age of 92, he was buried in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof in the Redemptorist crypt. Hosp had been an honorary citizen of Satteins since 1975.

Works

  • The Congregation of the Most Holy Savior (Redemptorists). Your becoming and wanting . Graz 1924.
  • In eternal Rome. Time and mood images . Innsbruck 1924.
  • The juvenist at the Christkind. For the 25th of every month . Vienna 1926.
  • The saints in the Canon Missae . Graz 1926.
  • For the centenary of the Redemptorist College, Innsbruck . Innsbruck 1928.
  • History of the Redemptorists in Styria. For the centenary of the Redemptorist College in Leoben . Atzgersdorf near Vienna 1934.
  • History of the Redemptorist Rule in Austria (1819 - 1848). Documents with an introduction to legal history . Vienna 1939.
  • Saint Clement Maria Hofbauer (1751–1820) . Vienna 1951.
  • Sebastian Franz Job, a charity apostle of the Klemens Hofbauer Circle (1767–1834). Co-founder of the poor school sisters of Our Lady, co-founder of the Carolinum boys' minister in Graz . Mödling 1952.
  • Church in the storm year. Memories of Johann Michael Häusle . Vienna 1953.
  • Inheritance of St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer. Redeemer missionaries (Redemptorists) in Austria 1820–1951 . Procuratorate 1953.
  • Bishop Gregorius Thomas Ziegler. A champion against Josephinism . Linz 1956.
  • Worldwide salvation. Redeemer Missionaries, Redemptorists 1732–1962 . Innsbruck 1961.
  • Between Enlightenment and Catholic Reform. Jakob Frint, Bishop of St. Pölten, founder of the Frintaneum in Vienna . Vienna 1962.
  • Church of Austria in March. 1815-1850 . Vienna 1971.
  • The theological textbooks of the Josephine period in Austria . Vienna 1976.
  • Testimonies from times of distress. Saint Clement Maria Hofbauer in letters and other writings . 2 vols. Vienna 1982.

literature

  • Franz Loidl : P. Eduard Hosp († 1979). Life overview. Self-presentation. Bibliography . Vienna 1979.
  • Thomas Welte (* 1964): Eduard Hosp (1886–1979) - Redemptorist . In: Satteins. A Walgaudorf tells its story , ed. by Peter Erhart. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2018, pp. 403–405.

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personal data
SURNAME Hosp, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Redemptorist and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Satteins
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1979
Place of death Graz