Friedhelm Juergensmeier

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Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (born March 27, 1936 in Letmathe , today the city of Iserlohn ) is a German Catholic church historian .

life and work

Friedhelm Jürgensmeier entered the order of the Missionaries of the Holy Family in 1955 and began studying Catholic theology , philosophy , church history and Christian archeology at the Order of the Missionaries of the Holy Family in Ravengiersburg Monastery in 1955, which he continued in Rome from 1957 to 1967 . On December 8, 1960, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Wilhelm Kempf in Limburg an der Lahn . In 1967 he was at the Pontifical Gregorian University Dr. hist.eccl. PhD. From 1967 he was initially a research assistant at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz . There Jürgensmeier completed his habilitation in 1973 with a thesis on the Archbishop and Elector Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1647–1673).

In 1974 he was initially an adjunct professor, in 1976 a full professor in the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Mainz. In 1980 he was appointed head of the Institute for Church History in Mainz, which he initiated and supported by the Diocese of Mainz . a. published the series Contributions to Mainz Church History . On October 16, 1991, Vicar General Martin Luley inaugurated new premises for the institute in the Rochussift .

In 1982 he was appointed to the University of Osnabrück , where he held the chair for Historical Theology: Church History at the Joint Faculty of Catholic Theology (Osnabrück / Vechta) at the University of Osnabrück from 1983 until his retirement in 2001.

Since 1969 he has been a member of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History , was a councilor from 1975 to 1992, from 1973 to 1988 editor-in-chief for the diocese of Mainz and from 1988 to 2012 chief editor of the society's journal Archive for Middle Rhine Church History . In 1997 he was awarded the Society's plaque for his services.

In 1988 he was accepted into the Bavarian Benedictine Academy. From 1990 to 2005 he was on the board of the Society for the Publication of the Corpus Catholicorum , where he was co-editor of studies and texts on the history of the Reformation. He is also a member of the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Nassau.

Jürgensmeier's work focuses on church, empire and educational history of the early modern period, Mainz church history, mission and order history as well as religious folklore.

Friedhelm Jürgensmeier was bid farewell in August 2013 by Vicar General Dietmar Giebelmann as head of the Institute for Church History in Mainz. He was succeeded by Claus Arnold .

Fonts (selection)

See Regina E. Schwerdtfeger: Publications by Friedhelm Juergensmeier. Institute for Church History in Mainz, accessed on April 6, 2012 .

  • The Catholic Church as reflected in the caricature of the German satirical trend magazines from 1848 to 1900 . Neu, Trier 1969 (= dissertation).
  • The diocese of Mainz. From Roman times to the Second Vatican Council. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0570-8 .
  • (Ed.): "... go to those in the distance ...". Missionaries of the Holy Family (1895–1995) . Mission House Hl. Familie, Betzdorf 1995, ISBN 3-9804290-0-8 .
  • (Ed.): The diocese of Worms from Roman times to its dissolution in 1801 . Echter, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-429-01876-5 .
  • (Ed.): Handbook of the Mainz Church History. 3 volumes. Echter, Würzburg 1997-2002.
  • with Regina E. Schwerdtfeger (Ed.): Orders and Monasteries in the Age of Reformation and Catholic Reform 1500–1700. 3 volumes (= Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism. 65–67). Münster 2005–2007.
  • with Regina E. Schwerdtfeger: The monastery and nunnery of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia (= Germania Benedictina . Volume 4, 1–2). EOS, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 .

literature

  • Walter G. Rödel, Regina E. Schwerdtfeger (Ed.): Decay and Recommencement. From the archbishopric to the diocese of Mainz (1792 / 97–1830). Festschrift for Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (= contributions to Mainz church history, Volume 7). Echter, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-429-02417-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgensmeier celebrates the golden jubilee of priests (December 8th) ; accessed on August 24, 2012.
  2. ^ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier: Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605–1673) and the Roman Curia. A contribution to the church history of the 17th century (= sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history). Mainz 1977 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ 25 years of the Institute for Church History in Mainz 1980 - 2005 ; accessed on August 24, 2012.
  4. ^ Series of Contributions to Mainz Church History , ed. by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier ; accessed on October 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ A Life for Church History. Ceremony on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Professor Friedhelm Jürgensmeier. Episcopal Press Office Mainz , accessed on April 6, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Set standards in Mainz church history. Ceremony on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Friedhelm Jürgensmeier. Episcopal Press Office Mainz, accessed on April 6, 2012 .
  7. ^ Corpus Catholicorum ; accessed on August 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ IKFN - Members of the Institute. Corresponding members. Interdisciplinary Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Dietmar Giebelmann: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier adopted. Long-time director of the Institute for Church History in Mainz. Press office of the Diocese of Mainz, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
  10. ^ Lehmann: Order history is central to church history. New double volume of "Germania Benedictina" presented in Eberbach Monastery. Episcopal Press Office Mainz, accessed on April 6, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Jürgensmeier, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Letmathe , now Iserlohn