Germain Morin (Benedictine)

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Germain Morin ( OSB ), civic Léopold Morin (* 6. November 1861 in Caen , † 12. April 1946 in Orselina ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian , Patrologe and Benedictine of the Beuron Congregation belonging Maredsous Abbey . His extensive scientific work thematically covers early Christian literature, liturgy , hagiography and the history of churches and monasteries.

life and work

Germain Morin studied theology at the Seminary of Bayeux . In the winter semester of 1880/81 he applied for admission as a postulant in the Belgian abbey of Maredsous, as the French state threatened to close his native monasteries. He made his monastery vows in Maredsous on August 15, 1882. In 1887 he was ordained a priest. In 1887 he began his patristic research in European libraries. In 1893 or 1894 he made a valuable discovery in the archives of the Namur Seminary : an 11th-century manuscript with a medieval Latin translation of the famous letter from Clement I to the Christians of Corinth, one of the most important Christian writings of the immediate post-Apostolic series 1st century time.

From 1907 Morin resided in the Abbey of St. Bonifatius in Munich . In 1912 he was released from the constraints of his religious vows by the Pope in order to have greater freedom of movement for his scientific work. During the First World War he went to Belgium, in 1918 he returned to Munich. In 1939 he established himself as an independent researcher in Friborg, Switzerland .

“Morin's work proved extremely fruitful for patristicism; The “inner criticism” he used, ie the analysis of the texts based on choice of words, sentence structure and rhythm, led to new insights. ”Morin was an expert on the works of Caesarius of Arles , St. Augustine and St. Jerome . From 1887 Morin worked for the Revue bénédictine published in Maredsous . From 1893 he published the series Anecdota Maredsolana, seu Monumenta ecclesiasticæ antiquitatis ex manuscriptis codicibus nunc primum edita (First published linguistic monuments of the early church) until 1932. His absolute familiarity with Augustine enabled him to publish forty unknown sermons by Augustine from Wolfenbüttel manuscript 4096 and in 1930 the S. Augustini sermones post Maurinos reperti in Rome. At the end of his life he published the complete works of Caesarius von Arles in two volumes (1937–1942). Its scientific bibliography comprises a total of 846 publications. Morin received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Zurich (1914), Freiburg im Breisgau (1926) and Budapest (1935). He was also a member of the Royal Society of London , the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Pontifica Accademia di Archeologia in Rome.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Cyrille Lambot (OSB Maredsous): Morin, Lépold . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1962, Sp. 636 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Victor Saxer: Morin, Lépold . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 7 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, Sp. 476 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Markus Ries. 1997. Germain Morin.
personal data
SURNAME Morin, Germain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morin, Léopold (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Roman Catholic theologian, patrologist and Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1946
Place of death Orselina