Georg Langemeyer

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Georg Bernhard Langemeyer OFM (born May 28, 1929 in Mettingen as Georg Langemeyer ; †  October 12, 2014 in Dortmund ) was a German Franciscan and Roman Catholic theologian .

He emerged primarily as a religious didactician and religious philosopher, primarily with contributions to theological anthropology .

Live and act

Georg Langemeyer was born as the seventh child of the married couple Ludwig Langemeyer and Paula, née Brenninkmeyer, in Mettingen, where he grew up with ten siblings. Shortly after the Second World War , through the Ibbenbüren Franciscan Wendelin Meyer, he came into closer contact with the life and work of St. Francis of Assisi , whose teaching fascinated the then 18-year-old and finally moved him to join the Franciscan order. There he lamented the religious name Bernhard . During the novitiate studied philosophy at the monastery college in Warendorf from 1950 to 1952 . In 1952 he moved to Paderborn , where he made his solemn profession in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1955 . The first Mass he celebrated at Pentecost in the Mettinger St. Agatha's Church.

In 1956 Langemeyer continued his theological training in Münster and Innsbruck and specialized in the subjects of dogmatics and doctrine of the faith . With a dissertation on the topic “Dialogical Personalism in Theology. A history of theology study from Ferdinand Ebner "was he in 1962 Theological Catholic at the Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University for Dr. theol. PhD .

From 1963 Langemeyer gave his first lectures at the Franciscan College in Paderborn. He stayed in Paderborn until 1970, where he also worked as a cathedral preacher . Then he switched to the religious college in Münster, until it merged into the Philosophical-Theological College of the Franciscans and Capuchins in 1970. Now he has been released from the order in order to take over the management of the department for distance learning for religious teachers of the German Institute for Distance Learning (DIFF) Tübingen / Münster in Münster in 1970 . He was also involved as an author on several study letters for the DIFF. From then on, teacher training and continuing education essentially determined his further professional life. In 1975 he became department director at the German Institute for Scientific Education in Münster. In 1979 Klaus Wittstadt brought out an anthology of essays by Langemeyer under the title Theology in Dialogue with Reality , which also served as a habilitation . In 1980 Langemeyer accepted the professorship for dogmatics at the Ruhr University Bochum , which he held until 1994. At the same time, he continued to give lectures at the Franciscan Philosophical-Theological University of Münster (PTH Münster).

In addition to his work as a religious didactic, Langemeyer emerged, above all, as a religious philosopher . In his book Human Being in the Tropic of Nothing (1988), for example, he designed a theological anthropology “on the basis of everyday consciousness”. This and the dogmatic volume Anthropologie (1998) are among his main scientific works. Langemeyer was of the opinion that the increasing influences of the mass media and a steadily growing range of consumer goods have contributed to the fact that the Christian religion has faded into the background for many people.

In addition, the Franciscan also wrote the advice on the Christian way of life: Living as a man and woman. Biblical Perspectives on Marriage (1984) and Living With the Dead. From the life of our deceased in our memory (1999).

Father Bernhard Langemeyer spent the last years of his life in Münster- Hiltrup . In September 2014 he moved to the Bruder-Jordan-Haus in Dortmund for health reasons. He died on October 12, 2014 and was buried in the Ostenfriedhof Dortmund .

Fonts

  • Dialogical personalism in contemporary Protestant and Catholic theology , denominational and controversial theological studies (Volume 8), Paderborn 1963; as a dissertation: The dialogical personalism in theology. A theological-historical study based on Ferdinand Ebner , Münster 1964
  • Near the Lord. Scripture meditations , Kevelaer 1965
  • Theology in Dialogue with Reality , Würzburg 1979, ISBN 3-429-00618-X .
  • together with Doris Knab : Education , in: Christian Faith in Modern Society (Part 8), Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel and Vienna 1980 (2nd, unchanged edition Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel and Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-451-19208-X )
  • Live as a husband and wife. Biblical Perspectives of Marriage , Christian Lebenshilfe series, Zurich and Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-545-20088-4 .
  • Human being in the tropic of nothing. Draft of a theological anthropology based on everyday consciousness , Münster 1988, ISBN 3-402-03349-6 .
  • Anthropology , texts on theology: Department of Dogmatics (Volume 8), Graz, Vienna and Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-222-12636-4 .
  • Live with the dead. From the life of our deceased in our memory , Franziskanische Impulse (Volume 5), Werl 1999 (new edition Kevelaer 2001, ISBN 3-7666-2067-3 )

In addition, Georg Langemeyer was (co-) author of several study letters for the distance learning course for Catholic religious education and numerous parts of the distance learning course for Catholic religion teachers in the 1970s. Numerous essays by him have also appeared in edited volumes, specialist journals and commemorative publications.

literature

  • Nicolaus Klimek (Ed.), Et al .: Universality and Tolerance. The claim of the Christian faith. Festschrift for Georg Bernhard Langemeyer on the completion of the 60th year of life . Ludgerus-Verlag, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-87497-182-1 .
  • Georg Langemeyer, OFM , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume II: K - Scho. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1898
  • Oliver Langemeyer (-ola-): Uncle of the teacher helped with the decision. Georg Langemeyer has been a Franciscan for 50 years . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 27, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003 . Volume II: K - Scho. KG Saur, Munich 2003, p. 1898
  2. ↑ a b c d biography in the Book of the Dead of the German Franciscan Province ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c d Oliver Langemeyer (-ola-): Uncle of the teacher helped with the decision. Georg Langemeyer has been a Franciscan for 50 years . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 27, 2000
  4. ↑ cf. the entries in the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Langemeyer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langemeyer, Georg Bernhard; Langemeyer, Bernhard Georg; Langemeyer, Georg (baptismal name); Langemeyer, Bernhard (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Franciscan priest and Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettingen
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2014
Place of death Dortmund