Heinrich Brück (Bishop)

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Bishop Heinrich Brück

Heinrich Brück (born October 25, 1831 in Bingen , † November 5, 1903 in Mainz ) was a German church historian and bishop of Mainz .

Life

Heinrich Brück was the son of the innkeeper, beer brewer and coopers Andreas Brück and his wife Anna Maria née Köhler. He attended the community school and secondary school in Bingen and learned his father's cooperage, took private lessons on the side and passed the school leaving examination in 1851. After studying theology in Rome and Mainz , he was ordained a priest on March 30, 1855. Then he was chaplain in Nieder-Olm . Since he was chosen to take over the chair for church history at the seminary in Mainz , he was released for further church history studies in Munich (with Ignaz von Döllinger ) and in Rome. In 1865 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Rhenish intellectual history , the history of theology and the Catholic Enlightenment in the Electorate of Mainz in the 18th century.

As early as 1862, Brück was appointed professor at the Mainz seminary. There he taught church history until he was elected bishop, except from 1878 to 1887, when the seminary was closed during the Kulturkampf .

In 1899 Heinrich Brück was elected cathedral capitular, after the death of Bishop Haffner , on November 2, 1899 he became diocesan administrator . On December 21 of the same year he was elected Bishop of Mainz. He received the episcopal ordination on May 20, 1900 by the Archbishop of Freiburg , Thomas Nörber ; Co- consecrator was Paul Wilhelm von Keppler , Bishop of Rottenburg .

The Grünstadter Zeitung No. 301 reports on his election as bishop of December 22, 1899:

“ Mainz, December 21st. Today the election of a new bishop took place here. After a solemn high mass in the cathedral, the diocese administrator Dr. Brück was celebrated and in which all the clergy of the city and the surrounding area took part, the cathedral chapter withdrew with the government representative, Attorney General Schlippe, to the St. Nicholas Chapel to elect the bishop there. After the election, the secretary of the cathedral chapter, Dr. Back into the church himself, he climbed into the pulpit and announced that the bishopric of the Diocese of Mainz, from the cathedral chapter, the diocese administrator Professor Dr. Heinrich Brück had been elected. After the clergy had returned to the church in a solemn procession, the "Te Deum" and then the "Domine Salvum fac" were sung. All the bells in the cathedral and the parishes then announced that the diocese again had a bishop. "

- Grünstadter Zeitung, 1899

After a résumé, the report further states:

“ The newly elected man developed his most outstanding activity in the literary field; he is known as a church historian. In addition to many smaller works, the fruits of his many years of academic activity are: A widespread textbook on ecclesiastical history which has been translated into English, French and Italian and has thus found acceptance at all universities and seminaries. Further a history of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province and a church history of the 19th century. "

- Grünstadter Zeitung, 1899

As Bishop of Mainz from 1900 to 1903 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He took his MP's oath on July 4, 1900. In the 1903 state parliament session, he was represented by Friedrich Elz .

Fonts

  • The rationalistic endeavors in Catholic Germany, especially in the three Rhenish archbishoprics in the second half of the eighteenth century. Using the protocol of the former Archbishop's General Vicariate of Mainz. A contribution to church history . Kirchheim, Mainz 1865.
  • Textbook of Church History , Mainz 1874.
  • History of the Catholic Church in Germany in the nineteenth century , 5th vol., Mainz 1887–1905.
  • Adam Franz Lennig General Vicar and Domdecan of Mainz in his life and work. Mainz, Kirchheim 1870.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bettina Braun: Tolerance vs. Identity construction in the church histories of Albert Hauck and Heinrich Brück . In: Kerstin Armborst-Weihs, Judith Becker (Hrsg.): Historiography and historical awareness between religious claim and historical experience . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, pp. 273–294, here p. 275.
predecessor Office successor
Paul Leopold Haffner Bishop of Mainz
1899–1903 		Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein
personal data
SURNAME Brück, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1903
Place of death Mainz