Friedrich Kronseder

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Friedrich Kronseder SJ (born July 4, 1879 in Munich , † August 16, 1957 in Neuburg an der Donau ) was a German Jesuit , theological writer and student chaplain in Munich.

Life

Friedrich Kronseder studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Munich and Innsbruck after graduating from high school at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich . On 29 June 1904 he received the seminary in Freising ordination . After a pilgrimage through the Holy Land and chaplain activity, he joined the Society of Jesus on April 19, 1909 . He took part in the First World War as a division pastor in the 9th Army Corps in the west. After the war he worked as a preacher, retreat leader and university chaplain.

From 1920 to 1923 he worked as a preacher in the Kirche am Hof in Vienna. His sermons there made a great impression on Friedrich Wessely , who later became a university professor and founder of the Legion of Mary in Austria , and prompted Wessely to enter the Vienna seminary in autumn 1926 and begin studying Catholic theology. Kronseder was one of the founders of the Kulturbund , founded in Vienna in 1922 , which was initiated by the Austrian writer Karl Anton Rohan and which had a program that was “more philosophical than political” and shaped by the “ Nietzsche cult”. From 1924 to 1927 Kronseder was a student chaplain in Leipzig. In 1927 Cardinal Faulhaber appointed him to be a university chaplain and preacher in Munich, where, among other things, he often preached in the Munich Jesuit Church of St Michael . There he also became a member of the Catholic student union Rheno-Bavaria in the KV . On Kronseder's initiative, Cardinal Faulhaber founded a congregation of academics that was affiliated to the Prima Primaria on April 3, 1929 by the Order General in Rome . Kronseder was involved in a variety of ways as a student and university chaplain; so he led z. B. 1927 thirty-day Ignatian election rituals in Wyhlen near Basel, on which u. a. the future Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar took part as a young academic.

Kronseder became a spiritual and advisor to several women's associations and a sought-after confessor . His work testifies to an ardent veneration of the Trinitarian God . He died in the summer of 1956 in the Jesuit priests' hospice in Neuburg and was buried in the order cemetery in Pullach near Munich.

Works (selection)

Authorship

  • Saint John of the Cross (=  soul library , volume 5). Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1926.
  • Life in God. Introduction to the spiritual life. 16.-18. Thousand. Pustet, Regensburg 1950;
    also appeared in other languages, such as B .:
    • La vita in Dio. Orbis catholicus, Rome 1954 (Italian).
    • La vida en Dios. 3. Edition. Riealp, Madrid 1956 (Spanish).
  • In secret. 2nd Edition. Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1952.
  • Christ Litany and Trinity Litany. In: Michael Faulhaber : Speeches. Volume 3. Freising (after 1959), pp. 37-47.
  • New Testament piety. In: Yearbook for Mystical Theology. No. 12, part 2. Heiler Verlag, Vienna 1966. pp. 99–248.

Translation and editing

  • NN: Under the spell of the Trinity . 1st edition. Pustet, Regensburg 1933;
    appeared in numerous editions and partly also in another publisher, such as E.g .: 19-23 Thousand. Gregorius-Verlag, Regensburg 1948.

literature

  • Klemens Honek: The two leading Jesuits in Vienna (1920–1927). P. Friedrich Kronseder SJ and P. Anton Stonner SJ. Vienna Catholic Academy, Vienna 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c August 16, 1957 - Kronseder, Friedrich. † in Neuburg / Donau  - text from the picture of the dead on www.con-spiration.de. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Guido Müller: European social relations after the First World War. The Franco-German Study Committee and the European Cultural Association. (=  Studies on International History , Volume 15). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57736-0 , pp. 315–323 ( limited preview in Google Book Search ).
  3. ↑ See Hans Urs von Balthasar - life data →  1927 . On: Website of the Hans Urs von Balthasar Foundation . Retrieved June 26, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Kronseder, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronseder SJ, Friedrich Pater; Kronseder SJ, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1957
Place of death Neuburg on the Danube