Hubertus Drobner

Hubertus Rudolf Drobner (born May 23, 1955 in Mannheim-Rheinau ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Hubertus Drobner studied theology at the Lateran University in Rome . On 12 June 1982 he received in Mainz the priesthood , along with his older brother Karl-Heinz. As early as 1980 he was at the University of Mainz with a philological work on the Easter sermon De tridui spatio Gregory of Nyssas doctorate . He later earned two more doctorates and completed his habilitation . In 1986 he took over the chair for church history and patrology at the theological faculty in Paderborn .

Drobner's textbook on patrology has also been translated into English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Czech. He also appeared through the publication of the sermons of St. Augustine of Hippo . Drobner wrote numerous articles for the third edition of the Lexicon for Theology and Church and the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon .

Hubertus Drobner was the consistorial dean of the consistory of the Apostolic Visitature for the displaced Catholics of the Archdiocese of Breslau .

Honors

In September 2014, Oxford University awarded him a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree . The Australian Catholic University appointed him an honorary professor .

Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology on October 15, 2016 .

Publications (selection)

• Saint Pancratius - life, legend and Adoration , Paderborn 1988, ISBN 3-87088-556-4
• Biblical index of the works of Gregory of Nyssa , Paderborn 1988, OCLC 64962176
• For you I am a bishop - Augustine's sermons on the episcopate (Sermones 335 / K, 339, 340, 340 / A, 383 and 396) Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7613-0172-3
• Textbook of Patrology , Frankfurt am Main etc. 1994, ISBN 978-3-451-23498-9 . (²2004, ³2011)
• Aurelius Augustinus - Sermons on the Gospel of Mark (Sermones 94 / A – 97) , Frankfurt am Main etc. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56532-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubertus Drobner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bibliography on the website of the Theological Faculty Paderborn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainz Diocese News on the Silver Jubilee (together with Auxiliary Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr )
2. ↑ Consistory of the Wroclaw Visitatur ( Memento of December 10, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Hubertus R. Drobner, DD (Oxon). Theological Faculty of Paderborn, accessed on January 1, 2019 . 
4. ^ Nomina di Membri della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , October 15, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016 (Italian).