Georg Pfeilschifter

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Georg Pfeilschifter (born May 13, 1870 in Mering , † August 4, 1936 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

After graduating from Luitpoldgymnasium in Munich in 1888, Pfeilschifter first studied philosophy in Munich and, from the third semester, Catholic theology . As a student he became an active member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ottonia Munich in the KV . In 1893 he entered the Freising seminary and was ordained a priest there in 1894 .

From the outset, he aimed for a scientific career and, in addition to his job as a clergyman and curate, studied history in Munich. After receiving a six-month research grant for a study trip to Italy, he received another research assignment from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna on the basis of the research results achieved and then received a habilitation grant at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna.

In 1900 Pfeilschifter became a private lecturer in church history in Munich, and in the same year he became an associate professor for church history and patrology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising . In 1903 he was appointed professor of church history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he maintained close personal contacts with the influential historian Friedrich Meinecke . There he also took over the rectorate of the university in 1913/14 . In order to defend against Alfred Baudrillart's La guerre allemande et le catholicisme , he suggested the book German Culture, Catholicism and World War I in 1915 and was its editor. In 1917 he followed a call from the University of Munich , where he also worked as rector in 1922/23. In 1925 he founded the German Academy together with Hermann Oncken .

In 1918, Pfeilschifter published a three-volume collection of field post letters from Catholic soldiers. A summary was even published in French.

Pfeilschifter was a founding member and from 1925 to 1927 the first president of the Academy for Scientific Research and Maintenance of Germanness . He was also a member of various scientific societies (including the Bavarian Benedictine Academy, Baden Historical Commission, Bavarian Academy of Sciences ). In 1922 he became an honorary philistine of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Rheno-Bavaria Munich in the KV .

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . September 30, 1935, he was for health reasons emeritus .

Fonts (selection)

  • as publisher: German culture, Catholicism and world war. A defense of the book "La guerre allemande et le catholicisme". Freiburg 1915.
  • as publisher: Field letters from Catholic soldiers. 3 volumes. Freiburg 1918.
  • The St. Blasianische Germania Sacra. A contribution to the historiography of the 18th century. Kempten 1921.

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notes

  1. ↑ a b Obituary by Anton Ritthaler on Georg Pfeilschifter in September ( Memento from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.9 MB) of the Weisse Blätter , pp. 276–277.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeilschifter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Mering
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1936
Place of death Munich