Godehard Brown

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Godehard Braun (born December 30, 1798 in Vallendar , † May 22, 1861 in Trier ) was a moral theologian and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Trier .

Life

Godehard Braun came from a farming family in Vallendar. He first attended secondary school in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein and then moved to Koblenz . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Würzburg , Bonn , Tübingen and Vienna . In Bonn he was a student of the well-known dogmatist Georg Hermes . On 13 March 1824 he was in Münster the priesthood .

Church career

Immediately after his ordination, the Bishop of Trier Josef von Hommer , who knew him from his pastor in Ehrenbreitstein, brought him to Trier. At the age of 26, Braun was appointed lecturer at the Episcopal Seminary in Trier and taught moral theology. On December 6, 1825 doctorate he with his dissertation De Sacra Scriptura at the University of Breslau for Doctor of Divinity . He was appointed professor in 1826, which he held until 1834. He refused appointments to the universities of Bonn and Breslau and took over the office of rain in Trier on October 1, 1831, which he held until 1842. Also in 1831 he was appointed cathedral capital, in 1842 he was appointed ecclesiastical council and in 1843 cathedral dean at Trier Cathedral.

Auxiliary bishop

On March 29, 1849, Godehard Braun was appointed auxiliary bishop in Trier with simultaneous appointment as titular bishop of Callanicum . The Trier bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi consecrated him as bishop on October 7, 1849, assisted by Bishop Johann Georg Müller von Münster (he was the predecessor in the auxiliary bishopric in Trier) and Bishop Johann Theodor Laurent , Apostolic Vicar of Luxembourg .

Auxiliary Bishop Braun played a key role in the design of the “ Chapel of Salvation” or “ Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother” in Koblenz-Arenberg . On October 15, 1850, the foundation stone was laid and the foundations were laid . Initially, only a small prayer chapel was to be built. On the "advice" of Godehard Braun, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier , who, like Kraus, came from Vallendar and was therefore often visiting here, the chapel was built larger so that the sacrifice could be celebrated in it.

In August 1860, Auxiliary Bishop Braun laid the foundation stone for the new parish church in Arenberg.

After a severe stroke during a company trip on May 21, 1861, Auxiliary Bishop Godehard Braun died on May 25, 1861. He received his final resting place in the Auxiliary Bishop's Chapel, the former Paulus Chapel, on the cloister of Trier Cathedral . Matthias Eberhard succeeded him in office .

Works

With his works Godehard Brown tried the faith of reason make accessible and to have its contents safe. With his three-volume main work, System der Christian-Catholic Moral, he pursued his main concern and moral claim. His most important works include:

  • De sacra scriptura praescientiam et praedestinationem divinam atque libertatem humanam sine repugnantia docente . Mainz 1826;
  • Something about the worth of fasting . Trier 1830;
  • Critique of the views of the more recent Christian moralists on moral councils . Trier 1832;
  • System of Christian Catholic morality . 3 volumes, Trier 1834–40.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The apparition of Elisabetha Sauer or the miracle of Arenberg. Konrad Weber 2004, taken over by Johann Baptist Kraus, The holy places in Arenberg , 1877 p. 77, In: Arenberg-Info.de
  2. ^ Author: Carl Weber (1856–1934), What I can tell about the building of the parish church in Arenberg. In: Arenberg-Info.de
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Godehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Trier
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallendar
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1861
Place of death trier