Ernst Reiter (theologian)

Ernst Reiter (born January 5, 1926 in Hilpoltstein ) is a German Catholic theologian who taught as a professor for Middle and New Church History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

Life

St. Walburg Monastery, where Reiter lived for many years

Ernst Reiter was born in Hilpoltstein 1926 and June 29, 1953 by Bishop Joseph Schröffer in Eichstatt Dom for ordained priests . First he was a cooperator in Monheim, then until 1960 director of the St. Wunibald boys' seminar in Eichstätt and at the same time archivist of the Ordinariatsarchiv from 1958 to 1960. In 1960 he began further studies in Bonn, which he completed with a doctorate in 1963. In 1964 he took over the professorship for church history at the Philosophical-Theological University in Eichstätt - the later Catholic University  - initially as a substitute and from 1968 until his retirement in 1991 as a full professor for Middle and New Church History. From 1968 to 1976 he was diocesan commissioner for ecumenism and from 1972 to 1976 chairman of the ecumenical commission of the diocese of Eichstätt. From 1983 to 2015 Reiter was spiritual for the Benedictine nuns of the St. Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt . At the beginning of 2010, Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke appointed him to the historians' commission of the beatification proceedings for Father Jakob Rem .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reiter Ernst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Acknowledgment for the 85th birthday