Heribert Holzapfel

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Heribert Holzapfel OFM (born November 22, 1868 in Neckarsulm ; † May 26, 1936 in Frauenburg (East Prussia) ) was a Catholic theologian, church historian and superior in the Franciscan order .

Life

He attended elementary and Latin school in his place of birth and in 1881 switched to the grammar school in Landshut . On October 1, 1884, he entered the Franciscan order . After finishing school, he was a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Infantry Regiment in Munich . He was then on 29 June 1891 Freising for priests ordained. Then he was briefly pastor in the monasteries of Mühldorf and Dingolfing before he came to Landshut in 1893 as a seminar prefect .

In 1896 he became guardian and director of the Franciscan cloth making in Pfreimd . In August 1897 he took up a position as a lecturer and clerical master in the Franciscan monastery of Tölz . In 1900 he came to Munich as a lecturer for apologetics and church law . In 1902 he received his doctorate cum eminentia as a doctor of theology. In 1909 he was elected Definitor of the Bavarian Order Province , which he headed from 1912 to 1918 as Provincial . In 1917 he was appointed to the royal clergy . The achievements during his term of office include the first large terciary congress in Munich and the takeover of the parish of St. Ludwig in Nuremberg to build the Franciscan monastery there.

In addition to his work as an order provincial, he published numerous writings on the history of the order. The Beginnings of the Montes Pietatis and the Study of St. Dominic and the Rosary appeared as early as 1903 . In the following year he published the bibliographical work Bibliotheca Franciscana de immaculata conceptione BMV ; and in 1909 the comprehensive “Handbook of the History of the Franciscan Order” appeared. He was also the author of countless articles for the Augsburger Postzeitung and other periodicals. Furthermore, he researched the mosses of the Berchtesgaden Alps , but did not publish himself, but steered them into the work of Paul & v. Schoenau at.

He died on a business trip from Berlin to Warmia (East Prussia) as a result of a car accident on May 9, 1936.

effect

The critic and writer Hermann Bahr names him as a key figure in his religious conversion, which became public around 1912. He also dedicated his play The Voice (1916) to him. Holzapfel's letters to Bahr are preserved in the Bahr estate in the Austrian Theater Museum.

Works (selection)

  • The beginnings of the Montes Pietatis (1462-1515). Lentner, Munich 1903 (140 pages)
  • St. Dominic and the Rosary. Lentner, Munich 1903 (47 pages)
  • Francis legends. Selected for the German people. Kösel, Munich 1907 (157 pages)
  • Handbook of the History of the Franciscan Order. Herder, Frebugr 1909 (732 pages)
  • The sects in Germany. Depicted for the Catholic people. Kösel, Pustet, Regensburg 1925 (133 pages)
  • The leadership of the Third Order. Manual for the Directors of the Third Order of St. Francis. Dr. FA Pfeiffer, Munich 1925 (164 pages)
  • Catholic and Protestant: A dispassionate clarification. Herder, Freiburg 1930 (196 pages)

literature

  • Neckarsulm in words and pictures - St. Dionysius parish, Catholic parish St. Dionysius Neckarsulm 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Timeline to Bahr, University of Vienna
  2. ^ Correspondence in the Bahr estate, H
personal data
SURNAME Holzapfel, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarsulm
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1936
Place of death Frauenburg (East Prussia)