Ernst Nellessen

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Ernst Nellessen (born April 13, 1928 in Düren ; † February 22, 1982 ) was a German Catholic theologian , university professor and priest .

Life

Nellessen was the third child of the married couple Josef Nellessen and Louise geb. Dütz. He attended high school in his hometown of Düren and passed his Abitur there in 1947. He then studied theology in Bonn, Munich and Aachen . 1953 received Nellessen in Aachen Cathedral , the ordination . From 1953 to 1960 he worked as a chaplain at the Elisabeth Church in Mönchengladbach , in the same capacity from 1958 to 1960 at the Corpus Christi Church in Aachen. Living in Bad Honnef from 1960 to 1962 , Nellessen worked as an assistant at the Catholic Theological Seminary at the University of Bonn and wrote his dissertation during this time . From 1962 to 1966 he was rector of the parish church of St. Antonius in Ginnick near Zülpich . Afterwards he was a spiritual director at the seminary in Aachen until 1969 . When this activity ended, Nellessen was given leave of absence to Bad Honnef, where he worked at the parish of St. Johann Baptist as a subsidiary and temporarily as a parish administrator and was able to prepare his habilitation in the New Testament at the University of Bonn. In September 1970 he was entrusted with teaching assignments at the University of Cologne and the Technical University of Aachen to train religious teachers . In 1974 his habilitation took place at the University of Bonn, whereupon he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor there in 1975 . In 1980 Nellessen was appointed full professor for New Testament exegesis at the University of Augsburg , where he moved in April 1981. Until then he was still working at St. Johann Baptist in Bad Honnef.

Nellessen was also active as a local historian in Bad Honnef. The publication of the local history records of Pastor Franz Xaver Trips (1630–1696) in Latin and in German translation in 1978 can be regarded as his most important local history publication .

Nellessen was buried in the New Cemetery in Bad Honnef.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the ancient Latin tradition of the first letter to Thessalonians (= Biblical contributions from Bonn , 22). Hanstein, Bonn 1965. (also dissertation University of Bonn)
  • Franz Xaver Trips : Honnef before 1700: Notes on local history . Edited and translated by Ernst Nellessen. Self-published, Bad Honnef 1978.
  • The Honnef crucifixion shawl: a Cologne foundation of the Count von Neuenahr . Self-published, Bad Honnef 1980.
  • The Honnef bell cast from 1694 and other records of the town's history (= local history and history association "Herrschaft Löwenburg" eV: studies on the local history of the town of Bad Honnef am Rhein , volume 5). Bad Honnef 1982.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Portrait of a local historian . In: Ernst Nellessen: The Honnef bell cast from 1694 and other records of the town's history (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV: Studies on the local history of the town of Bad Honnef am Rhein , volume 5). Bad Honnef 1982, p. 120.
personal data
SURNAME Nellessen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, university professor and priest
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1982