Gabriel Adriányi

Gabriel Friedrich Michael Georg Adriányi (until 1958 Vit after his father; born March 31, 1935 in Nagykanizsa ) is a Hungarian-German theologian and Catholic priest. From 1976 to 2000 he was Professor of Middle and Modern Church History and Church History of Eastern Europe at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn .

biography

After attending the Piarist high school in Veszprém , he graduated from high school in Budapest in 1954 . As a candidate for the priesthood of the diocese of Veszprém , he studied theology from 1954 to 1959 at the Catholic Theological Academy in Budapest. In 1960 he was ordained a priest in Budapest in a secret procedure . After an adventurous escape from the People's Republic of Hungary , he completed a theological studies at the Angelicum in Rome from 1961 to 1963, followed by a doctorate in 1963. From 1963 to 1966 he worked as a chaplain in Ransbach in the Diocese of Limburg . From 1966 to 1968 he was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and from 1968 to 1972 religion teacher in Cologne, at the same time he was preparing his habilitation with Bernhard Stasiewski in Bonn, which took place in 1971.

From 1972 Adriányi was assistant, from 1974 lecturer at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn. In 1976 he was appointed professor there, succeeding Bernhard Stasiewski and Eduard Hegel, as professor for Middle and Modern Church History, including the Church History of Eastern Europe. From 1974 to 2000, he was a member of the university's foreign affairs committee and, on the part of the faculty, was a supervisor of the cooperation with the universities of Warsaw and Toulouse. From 1975 he was a member and from 1993 to 1999 head of the Senate Commission for the Study of German Culture and History in the East. From 1981 to 1999 he was a member of the convent of the university and from 1977 to 1978 dean of the faculty. In 2000 he was retired. Since 1999 he has been Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Hungary at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.

Honors

• 1989: Chapter of Honor of the Archdiocese of Veszprém
• 1991 Chevalier of the order " Palmes academiques "
• 1996: Dr. theol. hc Warsaw
• 2003: Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2005: Fraknói Prize (Historian Prize) of the Hungarian state
• 2006: Honorary member of the International Hungarian Philological Society
• 2006: Awarding of the commemorative medal "Hero of Freedom" for participation in the 1956 Hungarian People's Uprising by the Hungarian President
• 2015: Awarded the Mindszenty sculpture
• 2015: Awarded the officers' cross of the Ung. Order of Merit
• 2015: Appointment as provost of Felsöörs

Fonts

• The position of the Hungarian Church on the Austrian Concordat of 1855. Rome 1963 (dissertation).
• Hungary and Vatican I (= Bonn contributions to church history. Vol. 5). Cologne 1975 (habilitation thesis).
• History of the Church of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. Paderborn 1992.
• The Ostpolitik of the Vatican 1958–1978 towards Hungary. The case of Cardinal Mindszenty. Herne 2003.
• History of the cath. Church in Hungary (= Bonn contributions to church history. Vol. 26). Cologne 2004.
• Documenta Vaticana historiam authonomiae catholicae in Hungaria illustrantia 1891–1920. Budapest 2011.
• Co-editor of the Hungary Yearbook, numerous book chapters and articles

literature

• Reimund Haas et al. (Ed.): Awakening anew in the memory of the Church. Studies on the history of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe. Festival ceremony for Gabriel Adriányi on his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne 2000 (with bibliography).
• Markus Lingen, Hermann-Josef Scheidgen : Life picture Gabriel Adriányi. In: Wolfgang Burr et al. (Ed.): Life pictures and short biographies of the WKStV Unitas-Rhenania Bonn (= Unitarian Life Pictures. Vol. 5). Bonn 2007, 7-10.34.
• Hermann-Josef Scheidgen et al. (Ed.): Church and society through the ages. Festschrift for Gabriel Adriányi on his 75th birthday. Bautz, Nordhausen 2012 (with bibliography).
• Tibor Klestenitz et al. (Ed.): Litterarum radices amarae, fructus dulces sunt. Tanulmányok Adriányi Gábor 80th születésnapjára. MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, Budapest 2015.

Web links

• List of publications by Gabriel Adriányi on the website of the University of Bonn