Hans Grotz

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Hans Grotz , actually Johann Grotz, SJ (born March 13, 1923 in Schwabegg near Schwabmünchen ; † April 17, 2020 in Unterhaching ) was a German Jesuit and church historian .

Life

Hans Grotz was one of 11 children from the marriage of the farmer Sylvester Grotz (1861–1924) and his wife Franziska (1876–1963) and grandson of the mill owner Josef Grotz (1829–1909). After graduating from high school in 1942, he was drafted into the mountain troops. He served in the war in Russia and Italy and was wounded as a prisoner of war. Two brothers died on the Eastern Front in Russia, one sister died while caring for concentration camp prisoners. His brother Joseph (1913-2003) also became a Jesuit.

He joined the order of the Jesuits in 1946 , made his profession on January 15, 1946 and, after completing his theological training at the Berchmann College in Pullach and Innsbruck, was ordained a priest on July 31, 1956 in Munich . In 1964 he was at the Gregorian for a doctorate in church history with a work on Eastern Church Studies PhD . Grotz was prefect of studies in Innsbruck from 1961 to 1967, where he also completed his habilitation in 1967 and then was a lecturer in patrology and ancient church history until 1973. This was followed by two years as a sick chaplain in Würzburg and vice director at the Medical Mission Institute in Würzburg.

In 1975 he was appointed professor of medieval church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

After his retirement he initially worked in pastoral care in Ravensburg, then as a sick pastor in Munich; In 2013 moved to the Jesuit community Pedro Arrupe in the St. Katharina Labouré retirement and nursing home in Unterhaching near Munich due to health issues . He died in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany at the age of 97 in Unterhaching of the consequences of COVID-19 .

Works (selection)

  • The main churches of the east. From the beginnings to the Council of Nikaia 325 (= Orientalia Christiana analecta . Volume 169). Pont. Inst.Orientalium Studiorum, Rome 1964, OCLC 1036118692 (also dissertation, Gregoriana 1964).
  • Unwilling inheritance. Hadrian II (867–872) and his time . Böhlau, Cologne 1970, ISBN 3-205-08065-3 .
  • La storiografia medioevale. Introduzione e sguardo panoramico . Ed. Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome 1993, ISBN 88-7652-661-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian History in the 20th Century , Böhlau 2006, p. 155
  2. ↑ a b c Corona: Jesuit priest and church historian Hans Grotz died, retrieved on April 18, 2020
  3. ^ "Joseph Grotz SJ" , accessed on April 26, 2020
  4. ↑ a b Jesuit Father Hans Grotz SJ died. Jesuits , April 17, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Grotz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabegg
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2020
Place of death Unterhaching