Heinrich Denzinger

Heinrich Joseph Dominikus Denzinger (born November 10, 1819 in Liège , † June 19, 1883 in Würzburg ) was a Catholic theologian .

origin

His parents were Professor Ignaz Denzinger (1782–1862) and his wife Marie Thekla Molitor . His father was a professor of philosophy in Liège and moved to Würzburg in 1831.

His brother August became a professor of Roman law in Würzburg. His brother Franz Josef (1821-1894) became an architect and from 1859 was a master builder for the cathedral in Regensburg (expansion of the two towers, transept with roof turret), and from 1869 to 1879 he was involved in the restoration and expansion of the Frankfurt Cathedral.

Life

Denzinger was from 1848 professor for exegesis of the New Testament and from 1854 for dogmatics at the University of Würzburg . With Georg Anton Stahl , Joseph Hergenröther and Franz Hettinger , he was one of the representatives of the so-called Roman theology , which made Würzburg a center of this “Roman School”. In 1854 he founded the source collection Enchiridion Symbolorum , which is still in use today - in numerous revisions. It includes all creeds and ecclesiastical teaching documents on questions of faith and morals that are important for Catholic theology .

The collection of Latin translations of Eastern Church texts for the celebration of the non-Eucharistic sacraments, edited by Denzinger, is still widely used in liturgical science because it has not been replaced: Ritus Orientalium, Coptorum, Syrorum et Armenorum in administrandis sacramentis (2 vols., Würzburg, 1863–1864 ).

literature

August Denzinger, Heinrich Denzinger Memories from his life, collected by his older brother , Mainz 1884
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Heinrich Denzinger. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1263. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Friedrich Lauchert : Denzinger, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 663-665.
Michael Schmaus: Denzinger, Heinrich Joseph Dominicus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 604 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Denzinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: p. 433.
^ Ritus Orientalium, Coptorum, Syrorum et Armenorum in administrandis sacramentis (2 vols., Würzburg, 1863–1864) Online: Volume 1 ; Volume 2

personal data
SURNAME	Denzinger, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Denzinger, Heinrich Joseph Dominikus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liege
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1883
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: p. 433.

[2] Ritus Orientalium, Coptorum, Syrorum et Armenorum in administrandis sacramentis (2 vols., Würzburg, 1863–1864) Online: Volume 1 ; Volume 2