Georg Wunderle

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Georg Wunderle (born September 23, 1881 in Weißenburg in Bavaria , † April 7, 1950 in Bad Wörishofen ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher . He was a full professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the main representative of the philosophy of religion .

Life

Georg Wunderle was born in Weißenburg i. Bay. born as the son of an innkeeper. From 1895 he attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Eichstätt , where he graduated from high school in 1900. From 1900 to 1905 he studied philosophy and theology at the Episcopal Lyceum Eichstätt . He was ordained a priest on June 18, 1905, and he spent his time as chaplain in Our Lords . From 1906 he studied in Munich with Georg von Hertling . From 1908 he devoted himself to further theological studies at the University of Strasbourg . With a dissertation on Rudolf Eucken's philosophy of religion , he received his doctorate in theology in 1911 . After returning to his home diocese, he worked from May 15, 1909 as a chaplain in Obereichstätt , from May 21, 1909 as the 3rd cathedral parish cooperator in Eichstätt, from November 29th 1909 as the 2nd cooperator in Eichstätt / St. Walburg. From 1911 he was a lecturer at the Episcopal Lyceum Eichstätt, in 1913 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the Lyceum by the Eichstätter Bishop .

This was followed from October 1, 1916, a full professorship for apologetics and comparative religious studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In November 1918 he gave a scientific lecture on the religions of primitive peoples at the newly opened Würzburg Adult Education Center . During the Weimar Republic, Wunderle was a member of the Bavarian People's Party . From 1931 to 1933 he was rector of the Würzburg University. He also headed the working group of the German Augustinian Province for the study of the Eastern Church , which he was forbidden by the National Socialists, whom he was hostile to, in 1938. From November 18, 1947 he became the administrator of the newly established extraordinary professorship for Customer of the Christian East ; he lectured in this subject until his death. As a member of the theological faculty, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Würzburg in 1948. He died in 1950 at the age of 68.

Since October 26, 1907 he was a member of the CV connection Badenia to Strasbourg i. E.

Publications (selection)

  • Basics of the philosophy of religion. 1918.
  • Early childhood religious experiences in the light of later memory. 1923.
  • To Konnersreuth. 1931.
  • About the irrational in religious experience. 1930.
  • The formative power of religion in the human soul. 1936.
  • Tasks and methods of modern religious psychology. 1915.
  • Introduction to modern religious psychology. 1922.
  • University and education for spiritual leadership. Speech given at the 351st Foundation Festival on May 11, 1933. Richter, Würzburg 1933 (= Würzburg University Speeches. Volume 2).
  • From the holy world of Athos. 1937.
  • as publisher: series Das Ostliche Christianentum. Rita-Verlag, Würzburg 1938 ff.
  • The ideal of the new German university. Speech. Schöningh, Würzburg 1946 (= Würzburg University Speeches. Volume 1).

literature

  • Wolfgang Weiß :  Wunderle, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 36, Bautz, Nordhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88309-920-0 , Sp. 1538-1550.
  • Wolfgang Weiß: The theologian Georg Wunderle (1881-1950). Life, work, effect. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 64 (2002), pp. 413–436.
  • Wunderle, Georg . In: Karl Bosl : Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries . Pustet, Regensburg 1983. p. 864.
  • Josef Hasenfuß : Georg Wunderle in memory. In: Archives of Psychology in Religion. Volume 7, 1962, pp. 282-287.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 . S.?. See here .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Ziegler : The University of Würzburg in transition (1918-20). In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 179-251; here: p. 217.
  2. ↑ Klaus Witt City: The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Würzburg during the Third Reich. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 399–435, here: pp. 420 f . and 433.
  3. ↑ Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f.
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Georg Wunderle . People from Bavaria. In: House of Bavarian History . Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Weiß :  Wunderle, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 36, Bautz, Nordhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88309-920-0 , Sp. 1538-1550.
  7. ↑ Complete list of CV 1914 , p. 380
personal data
SURNAME Wunderle, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenburg in Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1950
Place of death Bad Woerishofen