Franz Xaver Arnold

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Franz Xaver Arnold (born September 10, 1898 in Aichelau ; † January 21, 1969 in Tübingen ) was a Catholic theologian and religious scholar .

biography

Franz Xaver Arnold studied Catholic theology after graduating from high school . After ordination and his doctorate as Dr. theol. he was vicar in Reutlingen from 1923 to 1926 and worked as a preceptor chaplain in Biberach an der Riss . Then he was in Stuttgart as a study assessor and vicar until 1927 . From 1928 to 1932 he worked in Horb am Neckar as a study assessor and tutor at the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen. Here he was then from 1932 to 1936 student pastor and began in 1936 to habilitate at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as a private lecturer in moral theology . As early as 1937 he became an associate professor and in 1946 he was finally appointed full professor for pastoral theology , moral theology, social ethics , liturgy and religious education at the University of Tübingen . From 1954 to 1955 he held the office of Rector of the University of Tübingen and retired in 1966.

Merits

According to the Munzinger archive , Arnold made an important contribution to ensuring that the still young scientific discipline of pastoral theology was pursued in a strictly scientific manner on the one hand and promptly and lively on the other.

literature

Gerhard Schneider : On the foundation of dogma and history: the pastoral theological draft of Franz Xaver Arnold (1898–1969) , dissertation 2008, Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2009 (362 pages; ISBN 978-3-7966-1446-0 kart.).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Franz Xaver Arnold in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Aichelau , Münsingen district
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1969
Place of death Tübingen