Franz Stephan Griese

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Franz Stephan Griese (born December 26, 1889 in Straelen , † after 1954 in Argentina ?) Was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, church critic and philologist.

Life

Franz Griese was born as the son of the postal administrator Rudolf Griese and his wife Maria Antoniette (née Stewens) in Straelen / Geldern district. At the age of 13 he entered the monastery of St. Michael in Steyl in the Netherlands in 1902 . In 1908 he completed his high school studies in Mödling, south of Vienna, in the St. Gabriel Monastery of the Steyler Missionaries . In that year he also went through the novitiate , took the first religious vows and received minor ordinations . As early as 1911 he was engaged in critical translations of the Bible.

After Griese had translated the Song of Solomon , he rejected his translation of the 150 Psalms - because of the denial of survival after death. Since his statements were contrary to the dogmas of the Catholic Church, he destroyed them in order to continue to aspire to the priesthood. With the beginning of the First World War he became a subdeacon and then a military nurse in the Elisabeth Hospital in Essen an der Ruhr. At the Royal High School there on Burgplatz he passed his Abitur exam in order to be able to advance to higher spiritual positions. In 1918 he was commissioned by Archbishop Caspar Klein in Paderborn his ordination under taking of the earlier by Pope Pius X introduced anti-modernist oath .

After the episcopal authority of Paderborn banned the publication of his new translation of Paul's letters in 1919 because of a damning report by the then professor of New Testament exegesis, he began to examine contradictions in theology and the Bible in detail in the special course. His writings, which appeared as a result of this work, had no ecclesiastical effect, however. In 1922 he had performed various tasks in the diocese of Paderborn and in the same year went to Argentina for the Caritas Association to collect donations. Before leaving, he visited Adolf von Harnack , who advised him to continue his studies and to leave the church at the appropriate moment. In Argentina, his knowledge of twelve languages ​​was particularly beneficial. After his Pauline letters with ecclesiastical printing permission from the Archdiocese of Cologne were published in 1923, without his knowledge, he returned to Germany.

In 1924 Griese submitted a manuscript of A priest calls: Los von Rom und Christo! before, resigned from the Catholic Church and traveled back to Argentina. Here he completed his habilitation at the University of Buenos Aires , became a professor of English and French and later founded a language academy. After further writings critical of the church had appeared, he married on June 1, 1927. Although Griese had already left the church before his marriage in 1924, his great papal excommunication by Pope Pius XI took place on July 25, 1938 . The reasons given for this were his publication of anti-church writings and his ecclesiastical marriage in Mendoza / Argentina in the Church of the Heart of Mary ( Iglesia Corazón de Maria ) (he had not yet been laicized ).

In 1954 he published an open letter to Otto Hahn in the Dürer publishing house in Buenos Aires , in which he criticized and strongly condemned the acts of treason by German scientists during the Second World War .

Publications (selection)

  • Psalm sounds. Texts of the psaltery translated from Hebrew and compiled into uniform prayers. Publisher Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn 1915
  • Christians of all denominations, unite! Opposites of the Protestant and Catholic religion are meaningless. Vaterländischer Verlag: Berlin 1921
  • The letters of Saint Paul. Paulusverlagsanstalt: Graz 1923
  • A priest calls: Lot from Rome and Christ! Ludendorffs Verlag : Munich 1932, (includes autobiography)
  • La desilusión de un sacerdote. Editorial Claridad, Buenos Aires 1933 ( online version )
  • The Great Error of Christianity Proved by a Priest - Scientific Treatise for All Faculties. , Ludendorffs Verlag: Munich 1936 ( online version )
  • Inquisition Tribunal 1938 - Pope Pius XI. against Prof. Fr. Griese - Published letter from Griese to the Pope after worldwide ostracism, Buenos Aires, Calle Maipú 92 VII, dated 25 Heuerts (July) 1938; Ludendorffs Verlag: Munich ( online version )
  • Spanish, easy and good. Verlag E. Beutelspacher: Buenos Aires 1949
  • Aleman Basico: Metodo Fragri - Tomo I Idioma-Aleman / Cuarta Edición, Verlag E. Beutelspacher: Buenos Aires 1951
  • The sinfonía del universo: bases de filosofía integral. Verlag E. Beutelspacher: Buenos Aires 1953, (Vol. 6 of the series El mundo y el hombre )
  • Open letter to the German scientists gathered in Bayreuth from May 27 to 31, 1954, especially to the address of Prof. Otto Hahn. Dürer-Verlag, Buenos Aires 1954 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Roberto di Stefano: Ovejas negras: Historia de los anticlericales argentinos , Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Griese: Griese-Franz-Open-Letter-to-the-German-Scientists . April 9, 1954 ( archive.org [accessed July 31, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Griese, Franz Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, church critic and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Straelen
DATE OF DEATH after 1953
Place of death unsure: Argentina