Hubert Bastgen

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Hubert Jacob Bastgen (Pater Beda) (born August 21, 1876 in Cochem ; † May 4, 1946 in Schäftlarn ) was a German Benedictine (OSB) , canonist and church historian .

Life

Hubert Bastgen was the eldest son of the blacksmith and locksmith Jacob Bastgen and his wife Catharina, nee. Krones. After the elementary and high school in Cochem he attended the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium in Montabaur and passed his Abitur there in 1896. Then he studied from 1896 to 1900 theology at the Episcopal seminary in Trier and was there on March 31, 1900 his ordination . After he was in Neuwied as Kaplan worked and as a religion teacher before further studies (u. A. In history ) in Bonn and Breslau took up where he in 1906 with his book The history of Trier Archidiakonate to Dr. theol. received his doctorate. In 1907 he was in Berlin at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University with his dissertation history of the cathedral chapter of Trier in the Middle Ages to Dr. phil. doctorate, which he almost simultaneously be head teacher - exam took off. In the same year he began a short course at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici and at the Pontifical University of Sant'Apollinare in Rome , which he obtained in 1908 with his third doctorate, this time in canon law, as Dr. iur. can. completed. After Bastgen returned to the German Empire in 1910 , he completed his habilitation with his thesis on the Libri Carolini at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Strasbourg . He now conducted archival studies on the Roman question , then taught as a private lecturer and later as a professor of church history and canon law at the university. Another focus of his studies was the German-Austrian church history of the 19th century, for which he repeatedly visited the Viennese house, court and state archives.

During the First World War he was a military chaplain in Bulgaria from 1916 to 1917 . Furthermore, he was from 1916 to 1918 on behalf of the center - politician Matthias Erzberger special envoy of the German Reich government and the Holy See to the German-born Tsar Ferdinand in Sofia , in order to take part in negotiations on a church union between the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church . Erzberger, who was a confidante of Bastgen, also sent him on a church political mission to Lithuania and Latvia . Bastgen and Erzberger, who had described his 2000-page work on the Roman question on the area and status of the Vatican as "a huge hard work of a bee", were together on plans for an exile for Pope Benedict XV. involved in Liechtenstein .

From the 1920s he undertook source and archive studies. To this end, he was given access to the Vatican secret archives and published numerous works such as monographs and essays on church history from the first half of the 19th century in collaboration with the Roman Institute of the Görres Society in Rome . In autumn 1921 he tried to get the title of house prelate , but the Holy See did not fulfill this , presumably because of Eugenio Pacelli's negative attitude towards Bastgen.

From 1925 to 1927 Bastgen was a scholarship holder of the Görres Society and worked there as a private scholar and leader. In 1930 he was banned from using the Vatican Archives because, despite a strict ban, he had taken books from the inventory to his apartment. This was noticed during a bag check, which was sanctioned by the Prefect of the Vatican Archives with the immediate and permanent exclusion from using the archive. Bastgen felt this as a humiliation that brought him into a life crisis, the way out of which he saw entry into the Benedictine Abbey of Schäftlarn Monastery in 1932. He now called himself Father Beda and continued his publications on Vatican Sources 1800–1846 , the main topics being the occupation of bishops, mixed marriages and the relationship between church and state . Bastgen, who had received his appointment as professor on December 8, 1933, switched during his career from initial research on Trier church history to what later became the main area of ​​general church history of the 19th century. In 1940, because of his close contacts with Erzberger, he received a few visits from the GeStaPo , which probably had further bothered him, and he also suffered from the consequences of a stroke . Less than a year after the end of the Second World War , the passionate researcher and scholar died in Schäftlarn. He left behind a large number of publications on modern church history .

Works (selection)

  • 1910 The history of the Trier cathedral chapter in the Middle Ages (334 pages)
  • 1914 The re-establishment of the dioceses in Austria after secularization
  • 1917 Dalberg and Napoleon's church policy in Germany
  • 1917 The Roman Question, Volume 1 (467 pp.)
  • 1918 The Roman Question, Volume 2 (864 pages), (Note: On April 2, 1919, Cardinal Pietro Gasparri confirmed to Eugenio Pacelli that he had received Bastgen's work “The Roman Question” Volume 2, for which the Pope thanked him and him gave the Apostolic Blessing ).
  • 1919 The Roman Question, Volume 3 (255 pp.)
  • 1924 Libri Carolini sive Caroli Magni (capitulare de imaginibus)
  • 1936 Negotiations between the Berlin court and the Holy See about mixed confessional marriages
  • 1930 The Holy See and the marriage of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia: According to files in the Vatican Secret Archives
  • 1932 Archbishop Count Spiegel von Cologne and the Holy See: According to files in the Vatican Secret Archives
  • 1936 The negotiations between the Berlin court and the Holy See on mixed denominational marriages (284 pp.)
  • 1937 The duke couple Ferdinand and Julie v. Anhalt-Köthen, the beginnings of the Catholic parish in Köthen and the Holy See according to the files of the Vatican Secret Archives
  • 1938 The Holy See and Alexander v. Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst based on files in the Vatican Secret Archives
  • 1940 Bavaria and the Holy See in the first half of the 19th century: according to the files of the Viennese nuncio Severoli and the Munich nuncios Serra-Cassano, Mercy d'Argenteau and Viale-Prelà as well as the instructions of the Roman State Secretariat from the Vatican Secret Archives (1071 S.)
  • All articles and mishaps (co-author)
  • The occupation of the episcopal seats in Prussia in the first half of the 19th century I. - III. part

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Bastgen, Hubert , In: "Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District" , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 38.
  • Reimund Haas: Hubert Bastgen (1876-1946) and his research from the Vatican Archives , In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history, year: 1993, volume: 88, issue: 1/2, p. 156
  • Heinz Monz (Ed.): Bastgen, Hubert (Order name: Beda) , In: "Trier Biographical Lexicon" , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Jacob Bastgen, date of birth August 21, 1876 in Cochem, baptism August 24, 1876, FHL film number: 532143, In: Ancestry.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hubert Bastgen, church historian and special envoy from Cochem, by Gregor Brand (author), In: Eifelzeitung.de
  3. ↑ The genesis of the Trier Archdiakonate, Bastgen, Hubert, In: Germania Sacra, Third Volume 10, The Archdiocese of Trier 12, The Collegiate Monastery of St. Martin and St. Severus zu Münstermaifeld. Edited by Clemens Graf von Looz-Corswarem, De Gruyter Academy Research, ISBN 978-3-11-040953-6 in the Google book search
  4. ^ History of the cathedral chapter in Trier in the Middle Ages (introduction and part i. Chapters 1-3 ..), inaugural dissertation, Hubert Bastgen, In: Archive.org
  5. ↑ a b Short biography no. 2046, Hubert Bastgen, church historian, In: Pacelli-Edition.de
  6. ↑ Scholarship holders, assistants and employees from 1880 to today, 1925-1927 Hubert Bastgen, In: Goerres-Gesellschaft-Rom
  7. ↑ History of the Cathedral Chapter in Trier in the Middle Ages Introduction and Part I, Chap. 13, Author Hubert Bastgen, In: Archive.org
  8. ↑ Gasparri, Pietro to Pacelli, Eugenio of April 2, 1919, in: 'Critical Online Edition of the Nunciature Reports of Eugenio Pacellis (1917–1929)', Document No. 1244, last accessed on: January 23, 2020
  9. ^ Libri Carolini sive Caroli Magni (capitulare de imaginibus) Hubert Bastgen, The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, From the Carolingians to the Maurists, edited by Irena Dorota Backus, Volume 1, EJ Brill, Leiden - New York - Cologne 1997 , ISBN 9004097228 in Google Book Search
  10. ^ The edition of H. Bastgen (1924) , In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Concilia, Tomus II, Supplementum I, Opus Caroli Regis Contra Synodum (Libri Carolinini), Ann Freeman with the participation of Paul Meyvaert, Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hannover 1998, ISBN 3 -7752-5326-2 , p. 83
  11. ↑ All essays and mishaps, Bastgen, Hubert, Egelsbach Hänsel-Hohenhausen 19XX-, In: IxTheo
personal data
SURNAME Bastgen, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bastgen, Hubertus Jacob; Bede, father; Bastgen Beda (religious name); Bastgen, Hubertus; Bastegen, P. Beda; Bastgen Hvbertvs; Bastgen, Hubert Beda; Bastgen, Hubert Beda; Bastgen, Beda H .; Bastgen, H .; Bastgen, Beda Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochem
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1946
Place of death Schäftlarn