Engelbert Schue

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Engelbert Schue (born March 3, 1772 in Trittenheim , † December 22, 1847 in Trier ) was a German Catholic clergyman and university professor.

Life

Engelbert Schue was the second child of Josef Michael Schue (* 1741; † unknown), who ran viticulture and agriculture, and his wife Anna Margarete (* 1749; † unknown), born. Adams, born.

He received his first education at the village school. After primary school he attended the two-year Tyrocinium (a kind of pre-school that was supposed to prepare for high school) in Bernkastel in 1781 . This was looked after by the Capuchins , headed by the uncle of Engelbert School, Matthias Johann Schue, with the religious name Romanus. This school made the transition from elementary school to grammar school possible because the students learned the Latin language and acquired knowledge of history, the description of the earth and arithmetic.

As a resident of the Obererzstift, he attended the grammar school in Trier and entered the first class of the electoral grammar school (today Friedrich Wilhelm grammar school ) there. The Jesuits , who ran the grammar school until the order was abolished in 1773, introduced the custom that at the end of a school year the best students were rewarded with prizes in the presence of their parents and in front of invited guests, the so-called "golden books". The results were published in the Trier weekly newspaper. In 1785/86 his name still appears under the Certanten (these were the students who did not receive a book bonus, but were mentioned for educational reasons). On September 30, 1787, the newspaper published that “... from the fifth grade the first prize went to Engelbert Schue from Trittenheim”. The prize was Cicero's speeches in 3 volumes. He also received a bonus in his last year of high school.

After graduating from high school, he could not start studying theology directly because the medieval university structure provided that before studying a subject in the "upper faculty" (e.g. theology, law, medicine) a two-year Philosophicum , the so-called "lower Faculty ”had to be completed. So he began his philosophical studies in 1788 at the church college in Trier and in the reformed Clementine seminary.

In mid-November 1790, he took his theology studies in Trier and received on 17 December by Bishop Jean-Marie d'Cuchot Herbain (1727-1801), the tonsure and the minor orders and was therefore in the prior cleric added. Office September 21, 1793 he was ordained a subdeacon in the Trinity Church by Pierre-Joseph Perreau (1722-1805), a French émigré and titular bishop . On April 5, 1794 he was ordained a deacon by Pierre-Joseph Perreau .

Due to the French Revolution and the warlike unrest that was approaching it, he had to end the academic year 1793/94 prematurely after the electoral Trier was occupied by French revolutionary troops on August 9, 1794 and the students, due to the impossibility of a regular continuation of the academic operations, were discharged home.

On 22 March 1795 he was in Cologne by Archbishop Karl Aloys von Koenigsegg-Aulendorf for priests ordained and then returned to Trittenheim, where he made during his one-year Kaplan service first experience in counseling. After the situation had calmed down, he was delegated to Großmaischeid as chaplain to support Pastor Jakob Aloys Kilian (1757-1825). He stayed there until 1802 and then took on the role of private tutor in the Eschermann family in Ehrenbreitstein for two years .

The new Bishop Charles Mannay, enthroned in Trier on September 26, 1802, struggled to reorganize the parish pastoral care and (again) established the Episcopal Seminary Trier , which was the “planting place” of the priests' spiritual life and therefore the prerequisite for good pastoral care in his Diocese should be.

In the winter semester of 1805, the clergy's seminary was opened and the subjects of dogmatics and the entire church history were lectured in a personal unit, plus the classification of canon law in church history. Initially, both lectureships were transferred to Matthias Johann Schue. In the foresight that Engelbert Schue was to take over the chairs in 1806, he was sent to the seminary Ste. Sulpice in Paris , which as the World Priests Congregation had been responsible for the formation of the French clergy since the 17th century. Subsequently, on October 1st, Bishop Mannay gave him the professorships for dogmatics and church history. On January 10, 1822 he was appointed canon.

In 1824 Joseph von Hommer (1760-1836) was appointed Bishop of Trier. He told the senior government councilor Johann Heinrich Schmedding that Engelbert Schue was a good dogmatist, but was too little known about modern philosophy and therefore not suitable to satisfy young theologians who wanted to reflect more deeply. This led to Engelbert Schue handing over his chair in dogmatics to his successor Johann Joseph Rosenbaum (1789–1867) in the winter semester of 1826/27 . Now he was released from the dogmatic chair, but should not let his knowledge of dogmatics rest so quickly, because his successor was a student of the Bonn theologian Georg Hermes (1725–1831) and shaped by his basic attitude. The condemnation of theological statements of the Bonn theologian Hermes and Hermesianism in the Breve "Dum acerbissum" (1835) brought Johann Josef Rosenbaum to the suspicion of presenting Hermesian errors; therefore he was urged to revise his manuscripts into an Orthodox form and submit them to the Vicariate General for examination. The vicar general and diocese administrator Wilhelm Anrold Günther (1763–1843) passed these manuscripts on to Engelbert Schue, who had to censor them.

In 1831 Engelbert Schue resigned from teaching at the priestly seminary when he retired from the church history chair.

With the task of the chair of dogmatics, he succeeded Matthias Josef Meurer, who died in 1825, as cathedral chapter . Before that, he had already been entrusted with the duties of Vicar General and Synodal Examiner by Vicar General Anton Cordel (1760–1826) .

social commitment

Engelbert Schue was the godfather of the son Engelbert Nikolaus Schue (1801-1835) of his brother Johannes Schue (1770-1837). While his brother was still alive, he signed over the paternal inheritance to him and his children.

His interest was directed towards the parish church of St. Clemens , which was replaced by an early classical building during his student years in 1790/93. The St. Matthias Abbey had to finance the nave and Engelbert Schue was a helpful financier, as he had an annual income of 1,000 at his disposal as cathedral chapter. In 1839 an organ was built and he completely paid for the 400 thalers. In 1841 it was decided to cast the two old bells and add a third bell. Engelbert Schue took on 686 thalers of the total cost of 985 thalers. Due to the planned new bells had also their sound field are optimized and so it was decided to increase the steeple and a spire to build new. Engelbert Schue took on 1,030 thalers of the total costs of 1,839 thalers.

In 1847 he donated 800 thalers to the Sick and Poor Foundation in Trier, the interest of which was to support poor school children and other poor people in the parish.

Honors

The Engelbert-Schue-Weg in 54349 Trittenheim was named after him.

Individual evidence

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  4. tritemius: Engelbert Schue (1772-1847) The benefactor kick home. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
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  6. ^ The cities and towns of the Eifel and their surroundings, described topographically and historically; The second volume, first section, p. 527 . Mayer, 1854 ( google.de [accessed June 6, 2018]).