Felix Rütten

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Felix Rütten (born January 7, 1881 in Kempen ; † December 18, 1961 there ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , historian and teacher .

life and work

After graduation in 1899 at the High School Thomaeum in his hometown studied Rütten Catholic theology in Münster and received there on June 6, 1903, the sacrament of Holy Orders . Then Rütten was a chaplain in Appeldorn until 1906 , at the same time he was working on his theological dissertation on the counter-reformer Martin Donk , who, like Rütten, came from Kempen. The doctorate to Dr. theol. in 1906 with the church historian Anton Pieper in Münster . Subsequently, Rütten worked as a religion teacher in Burgsteinfurt , but in 1908 he was appointed chaplain at St. Antoniusstift in Münster so that he could continue his studies there and take the state examination for teachers. 1912 doctorate Rütten also at the classicists Peter Sonnenburg with a Latin written work on Virgil and Apollonius of Rhodes to Dr. phil.

From April 1912 Rütten was spiritual teachers and teacher at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck and taught there, especially Latin, Greek, Hebrew, religion, German and history. When Heinrich Limberg, director of Gaesdonck, retired in 1937 and the National Socialist government refused to approve Franz Aengenvoort, the successor planned by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen , Rütten, the longest-serving teacher and formative figure in the college, was appointed acting director. He succeeded in delaying the closure, which threatened all denominational schools in the Nazi state from 1937 , until 1942. In addition, he was able to prevent the establishment of a National Socialist state teacher training institute in Gaesdonck. Instead, it was there after the closure of a hospital of the Red Cross set up and Rütten could remain as a hospital chaplain in the house and also for the protection of the local monastery library care and art treasures. Soon after the end of the war, namely at the beginning of 1946, Rütten - officially appointed director since 1945 - reopened the Collegium Augustinianum despite extensive destruction by the effects of the war and proved to be a good organizer of the reconstruction. Retired in 1949, he lived as an economist and temporary teacher in Gaesdonck until 1953. He spent the last years of his life in Kempen, where he also died.

In addition to his work as a teacher and pastor, Rütten published several books and numerous essays (partly in collaboration with Albert Steeger ) on the history and church history of the Lower Rhine . His last major work was the translation of the Kempen Chronicle (1632) by Johannes Wilmius, which was important for the city's history .

Honors

Works

  • Martin Donk (Martinus Duncanus) 1505-1590. Aschendorff, Münster 1906. (Theol. Diss.)
  • De Vergilii studiis Apollonianis. Soc. typogr. Guestf., Münster 1912. (Phil. Diss.)
  • Rees on the Rhine. The medieval city and its foundations. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the city (July 14th to 16th, 1928). Bonert, Rees 1928.
  • Latin acts of martyrdom and letters of martyrdom. Selected and explained by Felix Rütten. 5th edition, Aschendorff, Münster 1978, ISBN 3-402-02303-2 . (First 1931.)
  • The worship of Victor in Christian antiquity. A cultural-historical and hagiographic study. Schöningh, Paderborn 1936. Reprint: Johnson Reprint, New York 1968.
  • Christian words. A word-historical explanation of basic Christian concepts. Alsatia, Kolmar 1944. New edition: Hansa, Hamburg 1947.
  • Cartae memoriales magistris discipulis amicis Collegii Augustiniani Gaesdonckensis dedicatae anno iubilaeo MDCCCCXXXXIX. Pustet, Regensburg 1949.
  • Translated: Johannes Wilmius: Chronicon rerum Kempensium . Translated into German by Felix Rütten. Edited and ed. by Jakob Hermes. Lambertz-Tölkes, Krefeld 1985.
  • in addition numerous, often extensive articles in specialist journals.

literature

  • Josef Stenmans and others: In memoriam Felix Rütten . Gaesdonck 1962. (Special edition of the Gaesdoncker Blätter .)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of honorary doctors of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University (PDF; 244 kB), p. 151.

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personal data
SURNAME Rütten, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest, historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1961
Place of death Kempen