Erich Kleineidam

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Erich Kleineidam (born January 3, 1905 in Bielschowitz , † April 21, 2005 in Erfurt ) was the founding rector of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt , philosopher , priest, Regens and author.

Life

Erich Kleineidam studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Breslau , Freiburg im Breisgau and Innsbruck . On January 27, 1929, he was ordained a priest in Breslau by Cardinal Adolf Bertram . It was in 1930 at the Faculty of Wroclaw University Dr. phil. PhD .

After completing his doctorate, he became the head of the student council at the advanced school in Liebenthal, Lower Silesia . From 1934, Kleineidam worked as a tutor in the Archbishop's Theological Convict in Breslau. In 1935 he became deputy director there.

In 1939 Erich Kleineidam was appointed professor of philosophy at the theological college in Weidenau in the Sudetenland. In addition to this professorship, he held the office of Vice Rector until the institution was closed at the end of the war. After his expulsion as a Reich German on October 3, 1946, the first expellee bishop Maximilian Kaller appointed him as a professor at the newly founded Philosophical-Theological University in Königstein im Taunus in 1947 . In 1948 he also became Regens and in 1949 rector of this institution.

In 1952, Kleineidam was appointed rector, full professor for philosophy and rain at the regional seminar in Berlin-Biesdorf, which was being founded.

On May 2, 1952, he had to leave the GDR . The opening of the seminary in Berlin was banned. In July 1952, however, he received an entry permit to Erfurt.

Until 1954 he was the founding rector of the "Philosophical-Theological Study of Erfurt" (today's Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt ) and there until 1970 Professor of Philosophy. He has written numerous publications (national and international). Until 1959 he was also the founding Regens of the Erfurt seminary .

The four-volume work Universitas Studii Erfordensis , published in several editions, is the highlight and conclusion of his scientific publications . Overview of the history of the University of Erfurt , which he worked on updating until 1992.

On the 100th birthday of Kleineidam, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference , Karl Cardinal Lehmann, praised his scientific achievements and called the Erfurt scholar a "figure of hope", who stands for lifelong fidelity to faith, but also for encouraging many Christians to endure dictatorships of the last century.

Honors

Erich Kleineidam has been honored with many awards from church, science and politics.

In 1954 he became papal house prelate and in 1978 apostolic protonotary . He received honorary doctorates in theology from the Universities of Münster and Munich . In 1990 he became an honorary member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . In 1992 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

Fonts

As a writer

  • The problem of the hylomorphic composition of mental substances in the thirteenth century, dealt with until Thomas Aquinas. Phil. Diss., University of Breslau, March 1930.
  • Office and mission. Contributions to pastoral and religious issues . Herder, Freiburg 1950.
  • Knowledge, science and theology with Bernhard von Clairvaux . St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1956.
  • Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Wroclaw 1811–1945 . Wienand, Cologne 1961.
  • Universitas Studii Erfordensis. Overview of the history of the University of Erfurt . St. Benno publishing house, Leipzig
    • Part I: Late Middle Ages 1392–1460 . 2nd ext. 1985 edition
    • Part II: Late Scholasticism. Humanism and Reformation 1461–1521 . 2nd ext. 1992 edition.
    • Part III: The time of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation 1521–1632 . 2nd ext. 1983 edition.
    • Part IV: The Baroque and Enlightenment Period from 1633 to the fall of 1816 . 2nd ext. 1988 edition.

As editor

  • with Heinz Schürmann : Miscellanea Erfordiana . St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1962.
  • with Otto Kuss : Church in the New Age. Treatises on religious issues of the time . Publishing house of Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1935 and further editions.
  • with Otto Kuss: Church and the world. Contributions to Christian reflection in the present . Pustet, Salzburg 1937.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Fritz Hoffmann , Leo Scheffczyk , Konrad Feiereis (eds.): Sapienter ordinare. Celebration for Erich Kleineidam on his 65th birthday . St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1969.
  • Jürgen Dummer , Jürgen Kiefer (ed.): Munuscula Erfordiensia. Erico Kleineidam nonagenario oblata . Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt, Erfurt 1995 (Festschrift; the Latin title means: Small presents from Erfurt. Erich Kleineidam on his 90th birthday ).
  • Georg May : Erich Kleineidam . In: Ders .: Three priestly educators from Silesia. Paul Ramatschi, Erich Puzik, Erich Kleineidam . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87710-287-9 , pp. 105-175.
  • Short biography for:  Kleineidam, Erich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University history written and lived: Professor Dr. Dr. hc Erich Kleineidam is 100 years old
  2. ↑ A figure of hope: Cardinal Lehmann congratulates Professor Kleineidam on behalf of the German bishops on his 100th birthday , press release of the Episcopal Ordinariate Erfurt, published on January 3, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Kleineidam, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest, Regens and Federal Cross of Merit
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielschowitz
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2005
Place of death Erfurt