Generosus Marquardt

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Generosus Marquardt OFM (born April 21, 1896 in Hamburg as Bruno Jakob Karl Marquardt ; † November 7, 1965 in Sigmaringen ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian . He belonged to the Thuringian Order Province of the Franciscan Order ( Thuringia ).

Life

After graduating from the Hansa-Gymnasium Bergedorf in 1914, Bruno Marquardt entered the Franciscan monastery in Ottbergen in 1914 , but then had to do military service in the First World War ; he was badly wounded and awarded the Iron Cross . It was not until 1919 that he could begin the novitiate in the monastery in Salmünster and was given the religious name Generosus. He then studied philosophy and theology in Gorheim and in the Frauenberg monastery in Fulda. There he made his solemn profession in 1922 . On April 5, 1924, he was ordained a priest in Fulda.

The order province of Thuringia appointed him as a lecturer for the training of the order's offspring. From 1924 to 1927 studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1928 in Tübingen . In 1928 he became an academic teacher for theology, apologetics , archeology and exegesis on the Frauenberg, from 1929 to 1931 he completed a doctoral degree in Tübingen and received his doctorate on the subject of the miracle problem in contemporary German Protestant theology . During his studies in 1931 he became a member of the AV Cheruskia Tübingen . From 1931 to 1940 he worked as a lecturer for fundamental theology on the Frauenberg, and from 1931 to 1938 at the same time local pastor in Fulda. After the closure of the monastery on Frauenberg, he gave theological lectures from 1940 to 1946 and was a student chaplain in Hanover , since 1942 also within the framework of the Catholic Biblical Works , where he was a speaker and author. In 1946 he gave lectures in Göttingen and from 1946 to 1949 in Wiesbaden . As a lecturer he taught apologetics again from 1949 to 1953 in the provincial study house in Gorheim. In 1953 he became a pastor in the Malteser children's recreation home in Krauchenwies .

In 1960 he was awarded the Pro Merito Melitensi First Class Order of Merit. The General Minister of the Franciscan Order, Augustin-Joseph Sépinski , appointed Generosus Marquardt Lector jubilatus in 1963 . He is buried in the Sigmaringen municipal cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • The miracle problem in contemporary German Protestant theology . Hueber, Munich 1933, OCLC 493584463 , (also dissertation, Tübingen 1933).
  • Male figures around Jesus. 6 sketches for thematic Bible studies (= Bible letter . Volume 26–30). Verl. Kath. Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1939, OCLC 718934925 .
  • The coming of the Savior into the world. Bible study sketches . Verl. Kath. Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1947, OCLC 73573648 .
  • The master's example. Contributions to the image of Jesus in the Gospels . Verl. Kath. Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1948, OCLC 9882720 .
  • The importance of the natural knowledge of God for faith and science. A contribution to the German university question. Christian Certainty of Faith . Verl. Parzeller, Fulda 1949, OCLC 251522024 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schmidt-Eppendorf : The Catholic clergy, priests and diakonia, from Hamburg since the Reformation, in: On the history of the Jewish and the Catholic communities in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Essays on a conference for religious history of the Jewish community of Ahrensburg and the Association for Catholic Church History in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein eV As part of the "Intercultural Weeks" as part of the city anniversary "700 years of Ahrensburg" on November 8, 2014 (= Nordalbingensia sacra . Volume 11). Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2016, ISBN 3-7868-5111-5 , pp. 129–130.
  2. ^ Greetings from home to the Fathers, Fratres and others in the field. Brothers of the Thuringian Franciscan Province. With God for the fatherland
  3. ↑ Complete directory of the CV. 1958 Munich 1958, p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Generosus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquardt, Bruno Jakob Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1965
Place of death Sigmaringen