Gerhard Rauschen

Gerhard Rauschen (born October 13, 1854 in Heinsberg ; † April 12, 1917 in Bonn ) was a Catholic theologian , church historian , patrologist and schoolboy .

Life

After graduating from the Quirinus-Gymnasium Neuss in autumn 1874 , he studied Catholic theology in Bonn from 1874 to 1877. On August 11, 1878, he was ordained a priest in Roermond, the Netherlands . After a few years in private positions, he returned to Bonn from 1882 to 1887 to study Classical Philology and History , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From Easter 1887 to Easter 1888 he completed his probationary year at the Bedburg Knight Academy , then from 1888 to 1889 headed the secondary school for girls in Bergisch Gladbach as rector . From 1889 to 1892 he was religious and senior teacher at the Progymnasium Andernach, from Easter 1892 religious and senior teacher at the Royal High School in Bonn. On May 7, 1895, he received his doctorate in Freiburg. theol., on June 30, 1897, the habilitation for church history took place in the Catholic-Theological Faculty of Bonn . On October 22, 1902, he was appointed associate professor in the same faculty, and on April 10, 1915, he was appointed full honorary professor for church history with special consideration of ancient church history and patristicism . In his lectures he also dealt with Christian archeology .

His extensive scientific work reaches into the high Middle Ages ; the outline of patrology and the Eucharist and sacrament of penance in the first six centuries of the Church were translated into French and Italian, and the yearbooks of the Christian Church are still in use under the Emperor Theodosius the Great . The floor plan was continued successively until 1980 by Joseph Wittig , Berthold Altaner and Alfred Stuiber under changing titles in new arrangements.

In 1904 he founded the series Florilegium Patristicum tam veteris quam medii aevi auctores complectens for the publication of individual scientific editions of patristic source texts for teaching at universities. T. appeared in several editions and continued after his death until the end of the Second World War.

In addition to these and other scientific works, he wrote numerous textbooks for religious instruction in higher schools, all of which appeared in several editions and some of them were reissued long after his death.

His faculty colleague Joseph Felten characterizes him in his obituary as hardworking and as an early riser with a regulated and simple way of life, without social needs, and summarizes: »He was a capable teacher and worthy priest, open to others, without suspicion, with a cheerful way of life and full of humor «(Felten p. 11). He left his fortune to a foundation for the needy in his homeland, he designated a legacy for the boys' choir of the Bonn Minster Church to finance annual excursions.

Works

scientific publications

• Ephemerides Tullianae rerum inde ab exsilio Ciceronis (mart. LVIII a. Chr.) Usque ad extremum annum LIV gestarum . Bonnae: apud H. Behrend, 1886 (Bonn, Phil. Fak., Inaug.-Diss. Of July 22, 1886).
• The legend of Charlemagne in the 11th and 12th centuries. With an appendix on documents from Charlemagne and Frederick I for Aachen by Hugo Loersch . Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1890. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde 7).
• Classes in ancient history on the upper grades of high school . Annual report of the Progymnasium zu Andernach, school year 1889–90, part I. Andernach: Isbert, 1890. ( digitized version )
• New investigations into the "Descriptio" and their significance for the great relics at Aachen and St. Denis . In: Historisches Jahrbuch 15, 1894, pp. 257–278.
• Yearbooks of the Christian Church under the Emperor Theodosius the Great. Attempt to renew the Annales Ecclesiastici of Baronius for the years 378–395 . Freiburg i. E.g. Herder, 1897.
• The Greco-Roman school system at the time of the end of ancient paganism . Ax. to the annual report of the Royal High School in Bonn 1899/1900. Bonn: Georgi, 1900.
• Information on the history of the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute from the Gangelter Stadtbuch . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , 33, 1911, pp. 77–81.
• Outline of Patrology . With special consideration of the history of dogma . Freiburg im Breisgau [among others]: Herder, 1903; 2., verb. and probably edition 1906; 3rd, verb. and probably edition 1910; 4th and 5th, possibly u. verb. Edition 1913; also French and Italian.
• Monumenta aevi apostolici. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1904; Editio altera emendata 1914 (Florilegium patristicum 1).
• S. Iustini Apologiae duae. Vertit adnotavit Gerardus noise . Bonn: Hanstein, 1904; Editio altera aucta et emendata 1911; 3rd edition 1934 (Florilegium patristicum 2).
• Monumenta minora saeculi secundi. Digessit, vertit, annotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1905; Editio altera emendata. 1914 (Florilegium patristicum 3).
• The more important new finds from the area of ​​the oldest church history . Supplement to the annual report of the Royal High School in Bonn 1904/05. Bonn: Georgi, 1905.
• Tertulliani Liber de praescriptione haereticorum. Accedunt S. Irenaei Adversus haereses III, 3-4. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1906; 2., verb. 1930 edition (Florilegium patristicum 4).
• Vincentii Lerinensis Commonitoria. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1906 (Florilegium patristicum 5).
• Tertulliani Apologetici recensio nova. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1906; Editio altera emendata 1912 (Florilegium patristicum 6).
• Eucharist and Penance in the First Six Centuries of the Church . Freiburg im Br .: Herder, 1908 (Italian Florence 1909; French Paris 1910); 2., verb. and presumably edition 1910.
• Monumenta eucharistica et liturgica vetustissima. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1909; Editio altera emendata 1914 (Florilegium patristicum 7).
• M. Minucii Felicis Octavius. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1913 (Florilegium patristicum 8).
• General introduction. The two apologies of Justin the Martyr. The letter to Diognet . Translated by Gerhard Rauschen. In: Early Christian Apologists. Translated from the Greek or Latin. Vol. 1. Kempten / Munich: Kösel 1913, pp. VII – VIII. 55–173 (Library of the Church Fathers 12).
• New light from the ancient Orient . Supplement to the annual report of the Royal High School in Bonn 1912/13. Bonn: Th. Wurm, 1913. ( digitized version )
• Textus Antenicaeni ad primatum Romanum spectantes. Digesssit vertit adnotavit Gerardus noise . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1914 (Florilegium patristicum 9).
• Tertulliani De paenitentia et De pudicitia recensio nova. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1915 (Florilegium patristicum 10).
• Tertulliani De baptismo et Ps.-Cypriani De rebaptismate recensio nova. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1916 (Florilegium patristicum 11).
• Emendationes et adnotationes ad Tertulliani Apologeticum. Digessit vertit adnotavit Gerardus Rauschen . Bonnae: Hanstein, 1919 (Florilegium patristicum 12).

school books

(consistently in numerous editions)

• Textbook of the Catholic religion for the upper classes of higher educational institutions. Bonn: Hanstein.
  • Part 1: Church history
  • Part 2: Outline of Apologetics
  • Part 3: Doctrine of Faith
  • Part 4: Morality
• Auxiliary book for Catholic religious instruction in the first grade of the secondary school for girls. Bonn: Hanstein
• Biblical studies for high schools for girls. Bonn: Hanstein
• Biblical studies for higher educational institutions. Bonn: Hanstein
• Church history and biblical studies for secondary schools for girls. Bonn: Hanstein
• Church history for middle schools and allied institutions. Bonn: Hanstein
• Church history for high schools for girls. Bonn: Hanstein
• Little church history. Church history character images for higher educational institutions. Bonn: Hanstein
• Apologetics as an appendix to the doctrine of the faith for the prima of higher educational institutions. Bonn: Hanstein

literature

• Joseph Felten: Gerhard Rauschen . In: Chronicle of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn for the financial year 1917 (April 1, 1917 to March 31, 1918). Edited by Friedrich Marx . Volume 43. New series 32, Bonn 1918, pp. 11–15.
• Squidward Engert: Noise, Gerhard . In: The religion in past and present 2nd ed. Vol. 4 (1930) Sp. 1726.
• Karl Gerhard Steck: Noise, Gerhard . In: The religion in past and present 3rd ed. Vol. 5 (1961) Col. 804.
• Helmut Ehrharter: Rauschen, Gerhard . In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche 2nd ed. Vol. 8 (1963) Sp. 1017.
• Hubertus R. Drobner : Rauschen, Gerhard . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church 3rd ed. Vol. 8 (1999) Sp. 856 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Rauschen in the catalog of the German National Library