Elisabeth Gössmann

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Maria Elisabeth Gössmann (born Placke ; born June 21, 1928 in Osnabrück ; † May 1, 2019 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and prominent representative of feminist theology within the Roman Catholic Church . She saw herself as a representative of "historical women's research in theology".

Life

After graduating from high school in 1947, Elisabeth Gössmann studied Catholic theology, philosophy and German studies in Münster and passed her state examination in 1952 . In Munich she studied with Michael Schmaus . She was more interested in "the alternative", namely in the theological designs of early scholasticism and more in the Franciscan than the Dominican line. In 1954 she did her doctorate there (at the same time with her fellow students Joseph Ratzinger and Uta Ranke-Heinemann ). Until 1954 there had been no doctorates in Catholic theology for women in Germany.

She first worked in Japan , first as a lecturer in German literature of the Middle Ages at the church Sophia University in Tokyo , then as a lecturer in Christian philosophy at the Seishin Women's University, which is associated with the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Japanese Seishinkai ) . There she taught as a professor in Japanese since 1968 . Since 1986 she has been teaching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland .

Her first attempt at habilitation failed in 1963 because of an objection from the German Bishops' Conference : laypeople should not be made professors. In 1978 she made her second attempt at habilitation, this time in philosophy with Eugen Biser . Despite applying 37 times, she was not given a chair in Germany and was only able to take up an extraordinary professorship in Munich in 1990 .

She was married to the literary scholar Wilhelm Gössmann from 1954 until his death in January 2019 and had two daughters and two grandchildren. Elisabeth Gössmann died after a long illness in early May 2019 at the age of 90 in Munich.

Honors

Works (in selection)

Publications in book form

  • Maria Elisabeth Gössmann (née Placke): The Annunciation to Maria in the dogmatic understanding of the Middle Ages . Hueber, Munich 1957 (dissertation University of Munich, Theological Faculty, June 20, 1957, 303 pages, 8 °).
  • Metaphysics and salvation history. A theological investigation of the Summa Halensis ( Alexander von Hales ) (= communications from the Grabmann Institute of the University of Munich , special volume), Grabmann Institute for Research into Medieval Theology and Philosophy, University of Munich, Hueber Munich 1964, OCLC 265029837 (Habilitation University Munich 1964 , 423 pages, not accepted).
  • Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.): Archive for women's research in the history of philosophy and theology . Several volumes, iudicium Munich, from 1984.
  • Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.) U. a .: Dictionary of feminist theology . 2., completely revised and fundamentally exp. Ed., Gütersloh 2002, ISBN 3-579-00285-6 .
  • Birth defects: female. Memoirs of a Catholic theologian. Iudicium, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89129-975-3 .
  • Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.): Wisdom. A beautiful rose on the thorn bush (= archive for women's research in the history of philosophy and theology , Volume 8), Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89129-008-X .
  • Julie Kirchberg (ed.), Judith Könemann (ed.), Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke (contribution) u. a .: women's traditions. In conversation with Elisabeth Gössmann . Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7966-1258-9 .
  • Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.), U. a .: The devil remained male. Critical discussion on the "Bible in just language". Feminist, historical and systematic contributions . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7887-2271-5

Contributions in compilations and articles

  • The Christology treatise in the Summa Halensis, in Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas . In: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift (MThZ) Volume 12, 1961, pages 177–191.
  • Women in the church without a seat or vote? Or: Roma locuta - causa non finita sed disputanda. In: Norbert Greinacher (Hrsg.), Hans Küng (Hrsg.): Catholic Church - where? Against the betrayal of the council. (= Piper, Volume 488), Munich 1986, 3-492-00788-0, pages 295-306.
  • Ipsa enim quasi domus sapientiae. The Philosophical Anthropology of Hildegard von Bingen . In: Mystics Quarterly, Volume 13, 1987, pp. 146-154.
  • Haec mulier est divinitas: The parable of the woman with the lost drachma in its history of interpretation by the church fathers and Hildegard von Bingen . in: Michael Langner (Hrsg.), Anselm Bilgri (Hrsg.): Width of the heart - width of life. (= FS Odilo Lechner ) Volume I, Regensburg 1989, pages 607-615.

Lexicon and manual articles

  • High school. In: Sacramentum Mundi , Volume 2, Freiburg 1968, column 708-725.
  • Faith (V. Middle Ages). In: TRE , Volume XIII, 1984, columns 308-318.
  • Feminist theology. In: Hans Waldenfels (ed.), Lexikon der Religionen, Freiburg 1987, columns 174–176.
  • Eve. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Volume 4, Munich 1989, pp. 124–126.
  • Woman (theological-philosophical). In: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Volume 4, Munich 1989, pp. 852–853.

Reviews

  • Review of “ Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza : In Memory of Her. A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York 1983. “In: ThRv, Volume 80, 1984, pages 294-298.
  • Review of “Catherine Capelle: Thomas d'Aquin Féministe? Paris 1982. “In: ThRv, Volume 80, 1984, Pages 203-206.
  • Review of “ Claudia Opitz : everyday women in the Middle Ages. Weinheim 1985 ". In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Volume 22, 1987, pages 291–294.

literature

  • Leon Gössmann (Ed.): Professor in Tokyo - Elisabeth Gössmann . Berlin 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the Helen Straumann Foundation for Feminist Theology, Basel ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 287 kB), accessed on September 20, 2011
  2. ↑ Obituary notice Elisabeth Gössmann , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 11, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019
  3. ^ Founder of the theological research on women tot , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on May 2, 2019
  4. ↑ Bayern Alpha broadcast on March 9, 1998, further for download (PDF file; 42 kB), accessed on June 30, 2015
  5. ^ Elisabeth Gössmann: Hope for a future of theology. in: Johannes B. Bauer (Ed.): drafts of theology. , Styria, Graz u. a. 1985, ISBN 3-222-11642-3 , pp. 145-162, here p. 147.
  6. ^ Margit Eckholt : "Between times and continents." The contribution of the Osnabruck theologian Elisabeth Gössmann to the renewal of Catholic theology in the 20th century. In: “Guests in your own house? Women in Theology and Church ”- documentation of the conference in honor of the Osnabrück theologian Elisabeth Gössmann. Margit Eckholt, March 2015, accessed on May 3, 2019 . Pp. 5–18, here p. 6
  7. ↑ Herbert Haag Foundation for Freedom in the Church: Prize winners - from the beginning to 2000. Accessed on May 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ University of Osnabrück : Press release No. 30/2017: Honorary doctorate for Catholic theologian - University of Osnabrück recognizes the scientific life's work of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Gössmann , January 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gössmann, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gössmann, Maria Elisabeth (full name); Placke, Maria Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 1st May 2019
Place of death Munich