Hans Wolter (church historian)

Hans Wolter SJ (born July 28, 1910 in Oberhausen ; † September 11, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian .

Life

The son of the master joiner Johannes Wolter and his wife Elisabeth attended the Oberhausen secondary school and studied philosophy, history and English studies in Bonn from 1928 and later in Tübingen. Since that time he has belonged to the Catholic student associations KDStV Ripuaria Bonn and AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV . In the spring of 1932 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 's-Heerenberg . He studied philosophy in Pullach and theology in the Ignatius College in Valkeberg . Jozef Hubert Willem Lemmens ordained him as a priest on September 19, 1939. From 1942 to 1945 he was a chaplain in Recklinghausen ; at the same time he was enrolled at the theological faculty in Münster and studied with Michael Schmaus , Joseph Lortz and Gerd Tellenbach . Immediately after the end of the war he was sent to the newly appointed Ordenskolleg in Büren (Westphalia) as college minister . 1948/49 he made the Tertiate in Dublin (Ireland). After taking the vows of profession on February 2, 1950 and receiving his doctorate in Tübingen on January 14, 1952 ( Ordericus Vitalis . A contribution to cluniac historiography ), he taught from 1964 to 1978 as full professor of church history at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen .

Ordericus Vitalis. A contribution to cluniac historiography . Wiesbaden 1955, OCLC 837073218 .
Frankfurt am Main as a place for Christian-Occidental encounters . Frankfurt am Main 1957, OCLC 1070105847 .
as editor: Testimonium veritati. Philosophical and theological studies on contemporary ecclesiastical questions. Dr. Wilhelm Kempf , Bishop of Limburg, on his 65th birthday . Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7820-0227-X .
with Henri Holstein: Lyon I / Lyon II . Mainz 1972, OCLC 468373363 .
with Hans-Georg Beck , Karl August Fink , Erwin Iserloh and Josef Glazik : From the high Middle Ages to the eve of the Reformation . Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-26890-0 .

Franz Lerner : Hans Wolter SJ (1910-1984) to commemorate , in: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art . 59 (1985), pp. 579-584, ISSN 0341-8324 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wolter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1984
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main