Gregor Richter (Cathedral Chapter)

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Gregor Richter (born April 29, 1874 in Grüsselbach ; † January 23, 1945 in Fulda ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , philosopher and historian who became known nationwide , primarily through his research on the early history of the city and the district of Fulda .

Life

Gregor Richter was born in 1874 as the fifth of twelve children of Christoph Richter and his wife Hilaria Richter, b. Wehner, born. The family came from a simple background and made a living from agriculture and sheep breeding . Richter's grandfather had come to Grüsselbach as a community shepherd, a district of the community of Rasdorf near Fulda . After a few years of primary school , Richter was able to study at the Latin school in Geisa , Thuringia . His sponsor was the Rasdorf chaplain and later pastor Franz Herzig, to whom Richter, out of gratitude, dedicated his paper on Gregor Witzel in 1913 .

After graduating from Latin school, Richter switched to grammar school in Fulda, where he passed his Abitur in 1892 . He attended the seminary in Fulda, where he located next to the theology especially the philosophy and history dedicated. After successfully completing his studies in the summer semester of 1896, he was ordained priest in November of the same year. He then worked as a chaplain in the Fulda parish church , but already moved to Freiburg im Breisgau in December 1897 , where he took up further studies with a focus on church history on an episcopal mandate .

In February 1899 he obtained his doctorate for his work on the early Fulda monastery . Already in July 1899 was followed by his promotion to the doctorate in theology . Richter mainly dealt with the question of epics .

Shortly after his return to Fulda, Richter was initially appointed choir vicar and in October 1900 appointed professor at the Fulda seminary for church history , canon law , art history and patrology .

Activity as a historian

In 1904 Richter took over the management of the seminar library of the Fulda seminary. He rearranged and cataloged the holdings and in his work brought to light many previously neglected documents on the history of the monastery and the city of Fulda. From 1904 he was the editor of the Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter and carried out this activity - with the exception of the war years of the First World War - until the outbreak of the Second World War . He published a total of 95 of his own articles under his name here.

In addition to the early days of the Fulda monastery and its founder Bonifatius , his research focuses on individual personalities in the context of Fulda regional history such as Sturmius , Rabanus Maurus , the Fulda prince-bishop Adalbert von Harstall , the humanist Ulrich von Hutten and the polymath Athanasius Kircher .

In later years as a judge was domkustos responsible for the cathedral treasury and the Cathedral Museum and was a member of both the District Commission for the Conservation and study of the monuments in Kassel and member of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck .

Further work

In addition to his research, Richter continued to devote himself to pastoral activities. From 1904 to 1907 he looked after a parish in Künzell . Around the same time he was also involved in the St. Raphaels Association of the Diocese of Fulda , a support association for emigrants overseas.

In 1926 , Pope Pius XI bestowed him, to whom he had become Chapter Chapter the year before . the honorary title of Monsignor for his long service to the Church and appointed him papal secret chamberlain . From 1931 to 1937 Richter was also chairman of the Fulda diocesan court and in this activity was primarily concerned with marriage litigation.

Sickness and death

Gregor Richter suffered from diabetes mellitus for many years , which began to give him increasing problems, especially since the beginning of the Second World War . At the end of 1944 he contracted a complicated ulcer on his head. A medical intervention brought no lasting improvement in his health and so he died at midday on January 23, 1945 in Fulda. He was buried in the new municipal cemetery in Fulda.

Works (selection)

  • The first beginnings of the construction and art activities of the Fulda monastery; also the first part of an art history of the Fulda monastery . Fulda, 1900.
  • The French émigré Gabriel Henry and the emergence of the Catholic parish Jena-Weimar (1795–1815): A contribution to the history of the Catholic diaspora in Thuringia . Fulda, 1904.
  • The aristocratic capitulars of the Fulda Abbey since the papal nuncio Petrus Aloysius Carafa (1627–1802) visited the abbey . Fulda, 1904.
  • Statuta maioris ecclesiae Fuldensis: unprinted sources on the ecclesiastical legal and constitutional history of the Benedictine Abbey of Fulda . Fulda, 1904.
  • Ceremony for the Boniface anniversary in 1905 . Fulda, 1905 (with Carl Scherer).
  • The secularization of the Rasdorf Collegiate Foundation . Fulda, 1905.
  • A reliquary index of the Fulda collegiate church from the XV. Century . Fulda, 1907.
  • Extract from the Accessionsjournal [der] (library of the seminary in Fulda) Easter 1905 to Easter 1908 . Fulda, 1908.
  • A sermon and a poem for the completion of the Fulda Cathedral <1712> . In: Hermann von Roques (Hrsg.): Kaufungen Abbey in Hessen . Fulda, 1910. o.p.
  • The bourgeois Benedictines of Fulda Abbey from 1627 to 1802 along with the statutes of the convent ad s. Salvatorem of February 25, 1762 . Fulda, 1911 (with Friedrich W. Hack).
  • Fulda Cathedral - Sermon given at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of its consecration on November 3, 1912. 1712–1912 . Fulda, 1912.
  • On the reform of the Fulda abbey under the prince abbot Johann Bernhard Schenk von Schweinsberg (1623–1632) (= sources and treatises on the history of the abbey and the diocese of Fulda , 6). Fulda, 1915.
  • War services of the Fulda monastery in the early Middle Ages . Fulda, 1916.
  • Isidor Schleichert's Fulda Chronicle 1633–1833 . Fulda, 1917.
  • The plan to build a Catholic university in Fulda in the nineteenth century . Fulda, 1922.
  • The diocese of Fulda . Fulda, 1930.
  • The student register of the Adolph University of Fulda (1734–1805) (= publication of the Fulda History Association , 15). Fulda, 1936. Digitized

literature

  • Jan Kremer: An unpublished work by the Fulda church historian Gregor Richter from 1899. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , 52 (2000), pp. 279-312.
  • Winfried Walk: Professor Dr. Dr. Gregor Richter. In: Grüsselbacher Dorfgeschichte , 6 (2005), pp. 7–9.
  • Fulda History Association (Hrsg.): Fulda history sheets . 36th year (1960), p. 136.
  • J. Huhn: Gregor Richter. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , 1 (1951), p. 247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walk 2005, p. 7.
  2. ^ Gregor Richter (Ed.): The writings of Georg Witzels: edited bibliographically; together with some previously unprinted Reformation reports and letters from Witzel (= publication by the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein , 10). Fulda Actiendruckerei: Fulda, 1913.
  3. ^ Gregor Richter: The first beginnings of the building and art activity of the Fulda monastery; at the same time the first part of an art history of the Fulda monastery (= publication of the Fulda History Association , 2). Fulda Actiendruckerei: Fulda, 1900 (also: University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Diss. Phil., 1900).
  4. ↑ a b Walk 2005, p. 8.
  5. ↑ a b Short biography of Gregor Richter. In: Critical online edition of the diaries of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1911–1952).
  6. ↑ General register for volume I – XXI of the Fulda history sheets (1902–1928)
  7. ↑ General register for year XXII – XXXIV of the Fulda history sheets (1929–1958)
  8. ↑ a b Walk 2005, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, philosopher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Grüsselbach
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1945
Place of death Fulda