Heribert Christian Scheeben

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Karl Christian Anton Scheeben , also HC Scheeben , (born November 26, 1890 in Cologne-Wahn , † August 1, 1968 in Cologne ) was a German church historian and author.

Life

Scheebens was initially a member of the Dominican Order , from which he later resigned.

Scheeben was considered an expert on the life and work of Albertus Magnus . He was the main initiator of the founding of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Cologne and was able to win the Görres Society in 1930 to implement it.

During the National Socialism he belonged to the Cologne circle around the Dominican Laurentius Siemer , whose declared duty was to "do everything possible so that National Socialism would be destroyed". He postulated the "ruthless and consistent participation in the conspiracy against the Nazi state".

In 1946 he was one of the founding members of the CDU Cologne and one of the initiators of the reconstruction of Cologne University.

For his work on Albertus Magnus, he was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Lauingen (Danube) . He is the namesake of Dr.-Scheeben-Strasse in Cologne-Brück .

In 1952 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested on May 1, 1952 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Fonts

  • Saint Dominican , Herder, Freiburg 1927
  • Blessed Albert the Great , Gilde-Verlag, Cologne 1930
  • The tabulae of Louis of Valladolid in the choir of the preachers of St. Jacob in Paris , Rome 1931
  • Albert the Grosse , Leipzig 1931
  • Petrus Ferrandi , Rome 1932
  • The beginnings of the Second Order of St. Dominic , Rome 1932
  • Saint Albert the Great , Cologne 1932
  • Albertus Magnus , Bonn 1932
  • Johannes Meyer OP Chronica brevis ordinis praedicatorum , 1933
  • Albertus Magnus. Religious, bishop, scholar, man of the people, Bonn 1934
  • Jordans of Saxony , Vechta 1937
  • Saint Albert the Great , Meitingen 1937
  • Contributions to the history of Jordan of Saxony , Leipzig 1938
  • On the history of the veneration of St. Thomas Aquinas , Rome 1939
  • Dominicans or Innocentians , Rome 1939
  • The Constitutions of the Order of Preachers under Jordan of Saxony , Leipzig 1939
  • Albertus Magnus , Bachem Cologne 1955 (2nd edition)
  • Saint Dominic: founder of the order of preachers, innovator of pastoral care , Driewer, Essen 1961
  • Albertus Magnus , Rheinau-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-922475-01-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 1473 dated August 2, 1968, registry office Cologne-Altstadt. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ "The founding of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Cologne" ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Albertus Magnus Institute, accessed on August 16, 2013
  3. ^ Wolfgang Ockenfels: Laurentius Siemer . In: Contemporary history in life pictures . Vol. 5, Mainz 1982, pp. 147-160; Laurentius Siemer OP , accessed on August 16, 2013
  4. ↑ Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, p.
personal data
SURNAME Scheeben, Heribert Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheeben, Karl Christian Anton (full name); Scheeben, Heribert; Scheeben, Heribert Chr .; Scheeben, Heribert Ch .; Scheeben, HC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne madness
DATE OF DEATH 1st August 1968
Place of death Cologne