Hermann Hoberg

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Hermann Hoberg (born December 11, 1907 in Osnabrück ; † September 21, 1992 there ) was a Roman Catholic priest , Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives and there for decades the only German-speaking employee.

biography

Hailing from a distinguished old family Osnabrücker Hoberg made 1927 Abitur at the High School Carolinum in Osnabrück. He studied Catholic theology in Münster and Freiburg and received by visiting the seminary in Osnabrueck in 1933 by Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning the priesthood . During his activity as vicar at the parish of St. Marien in Flensburg , he worked on the completion of his church history doctorate on the denominational relationships in the Osnabrück Monastery after the Thirty Years War. In 1938 he was in Freiburg to Dr. theol. and in the same year came to Rome for historical research on papal finances with a grant from the Görres Society , where he became a member of the priestly college at Campo Santo Teutonico in the Vatican . During the Second World War he developed a closer friendship with the German church historians Hubert Jedin and Friedrich Kempf SJ, who also lived in Rome .

After the Görres Society's scholarship expired, Hoberg seized the opportunity in 1950 and took over the work of archivist in the Vatican Secret Archives, of which he was Vice-Prefect from 1956 to 1980. Hoberg took on in particular the development of the archives of the papal Rota (Rota Romana), but continued his research on papal finances.

In 1971 he became consultor for the historical processes of beatification and canonization in the Congregation for the Processes of Beatification and Canonization (Ufficio Storico-Agiografico della S. Congregatione dei Santi). In 1980 he became a canon at St. Peter in the Vatican.

Grave of Hermann Hoberg in the canon cemetery in the courtyard of the Osnabrück Cathedral

For many years the only German-speaking employee in the Vatican Secret Archives, Hoberg was the first point of contact for the scientists coming from Germany until his death, especially since as Vice-Prefect he was responsible for user support anyway. In 1979 scientists from all over the world dedicated a two-volume commemorative publication to him with articles that dealt with topics from Hoberg's research areas. 1987 appeared in the journal of the Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft , the Roman quarterly (vol. 82, p. 122-134), memoirs. Hoberg, who made little fuss about his person due to his modest and reserved manner, received several awards.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Hoberg's contributions are not listed individually in: Römische Viertelschrift (1942–1987), magazine of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Canonical Department (1944–1953), Archive for Catholic Canon Law (1947), Historical Yearbook (1953), sources and research from Italian archives and libraries (1954–1955), Lexicon for Theology and Church (2nd edition) and the Festschriften for Angelo Mercati (1959), Eugène Tisserant (1964), Hubert Jedin (1965), Martino Giusti (1978), Johannes Lenzenweger (1986). Johann Rainer (1988) and Josef Metzler (1991) as well as on the 100th anniversary of the priestly college at Campo Santo Teutonico (1977) and on the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Vatican Secret Archives (1982).

  • The community of confessions in church matters. Legal status in the Principality of Osnabrück from the Peace of Westphalia to the beginning of the 19th century (= Diocese of Osnabrück, vol. 1). Osnabrück 1939.
  • The inventories of the papal treasure in Avignon 1314–1376 (= Studi e Testi, vol. 111). Città del Vaticano 1944.
  • Taxae pro communibus servitiis ex Libris obligationum from anno 1295 usque ad annum 1455 confectis (= Studi e Testi, vol. 144). Città del Vaticano 1949.
  • Pope Pius XII Lucerne 1949.
  • The income of the Apostolic Chamber under Innocent VI. First part: The income registers of the papal thesaurary (= Vatican sources on the history of the papal court and financial administration 1316–1378, vol. 7). Paderborn 1955.
  • The income of the Apostolic Chamber under Innocent VI. Second part: The servite receipts from the papal camera (= Vatican sources on the history of the papal court and financial administration 1316-1378 , vol. 8). Paderborn 1972.
  • (published posthumously :) Inventario dell'Archivio della Sacra Romana Rota (sec. XIV – XIX). Edited by Josef Metzler (= Collectanea Archivi Vaticani, vol. 34.), Città del Vaticano 1994.

literature

  • Sergio Pagano: Hermann Hoberg - Official and later Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives (1950-1977) . In: Michael Matheus / Stefan Heid (eds.), Places of Refuge and Personal Networks. The Campo Santo Teutonico and the Vatican 1933–1955 (= Roman Quarterly, Supplementary Volume 63), Herder Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2015, pp. 418-428.
  • Bernd Holtmann: The cathedral chapter of Osnabrück. Edited by the cathedral chapter in Osnabrück, Neuenkirchen 1987, pp. 212–215.
  • Josef Metzler: Hermann Hoberg. In: Josef Metzler (ed.): Inventario dell'Archivio della Sacra Romana Rota (sec. XIV – XIX) (= Collectanea Archivi Vaticani, vol. 34.) Città del Vaticano 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Hoberg, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman, church historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1992
Place of death Osnabrück