Franz Diekamp

Franz Diekamp (born November 8, 1864 in Geldern , † October 10, 1943 in Münster ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Franz Diekamp was born as the son of a senior postal accountant on the Lower Rhine . He spent his childhood and youth in Munster . There he attended the Paulinum grammar school . In 1882 Diekamp began studying theology at the Münster Royal Academy . Franz Diekamp continued his studies at the Episcopal Lyceum in Eichstätt . He was ordained a priest on December 17, 1887. After a brief activity as chaplain in Kamp , he became a repetiteur at the Collegium Borromaeum Münster in Münster in 1889 . In 1895 he received his doctorate ; three years later he completed his habilitation at the Muenster Academy. In 1902 he became an associate professor , two years later a full professor for patrology , church and dogma history , initially as a "personal professor", in 1907 he was given the chair for dogmatics and dogma history.

In 1902 he founded the Theological Review and was its editor until 1924. In 1910 he became rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1923 he was appointed papal house prelate and the following year cathedral chapter .

The Catholic dogma of Franz Diekamp is considered important Thomistic doctrine of German; it appeared in 13 editions until 1962.

Works

• St. Gregory of Nyssa's teaching on God . Munster 1895.
• Hippolytus of Thebes. Texts and investigations. Munster 1898.
• The Origenist Disputes in the Sixth Century and the Fifth General Council. Munster 1899.
• Doctrina patrum de incarnatione verbi. A Greek Florilegium from the turn of the 7th and 8th centuries. Münster 1907. 2nd edition with corrections and additions by Basileios Phanourgakis, ed. by Evangelos Chrysos , Münster 1981, ISBN 3-402-03450-6 . ( Digitized version )
• About the origin of the confessions of the Trinity. Munster 1910.
• Catholic dogmatics according to the principles of St. Thomas. Munster 1917.
• Analecta patristica. Texts and treatises on Greek patristics. Rome 1938.

literature

• Berthold Altaner : Franz Diekamp †. In: Historical yearbook . ISSN  0018-2621 , Vol. 62/69 (1949), pp. 916-919.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Diekamp, ​​Franz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1290.
• Michael Schmaus:  Diekamp, ​​Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 645 ( digitized version ).
• Peter H. Görg: Tell me who is this - content, rank and development of Mariology in dogmatic textbooks and publications by German-speaking dogmatists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bonn 2007, pp. 258-267.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Franz Bernhard Maria Diekamp. Retrieved March 2, 2019 . 
2. ^ Franz Diekamp: About the origin of the confessions of the Trinity. Speech at the beginning of the rectorate of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität. Munster 1910.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Busz	Rector of the University of Münster 1910–1911	Aloys master