Hugo Koch (theologian)

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Hugo Koch (born April 7, 1869 in Andelfingen , † July 26, 1940 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

Hugo Koch, the son of Mayor Anton Koch and Katharina geb. Mack, attended the Latin school in Riedlingen and the grammar school in Ehingen . Subsequently, he studied on a scholarship from the Wilhelm pin at the University of Tuebingen trays Catholic Theology , Classical Philology and Philosophy . After graduating as Dr. phil. in philosophy (1891) he went to the Rottenburg seminary and completed the vicariate in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ulm . He then worked from 1893 to 1899 as a tutor at the Wilhelmsstift and devoted himself to church and dogma history studies. In 1899 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD.

Koch was denied an academic career because his critical attitude to conservative Catholic theology was not approved in relevant circles. From 1900 to 1904 Koch worked as a pastor in Reutlingen and from 1904 as a full professor for church history and canon law at the Royal Academy in Braunsberg (East Prussia) . From 1910 onwards he came into conflict with the church through his publications on the papal primacy , so that in 1912, with poor health, he asked the Prussian Ministry of Education to be released from his duties, which he was granted with the same status and salary.

After his release, Koch moved to Munich , where he has since lived as a private scholar and continued his studies until the end of his life.

Since 1895 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in its relations to Neoplatonism and Mystery Beings. A literary historical investigation . Mainz 1900 ( research on the history of Christian literature and dogma I, 2–3)
  • The doctrine of baptism in the Liber de rebaptismate. An investigation into the history of dogma . Braunsberg 1907
  • Vincent of Lerin and Gennadius. A contribution to the literary history of semipelagianism . Leipzig 1907 ( texts and investigations 31, 2)
  • The marriage of Emperor Heinrich II with Kunigunde . Cologne 1908
  • Cyprian and the Roman primacy. A study of the history of the church and dogma . Leipzig 1910
  • Catholicism and Jesuitism . Munich 1913
  • Constantine the Great and Christianity . Munich 1913
  • The early Christian picture question about the literary sources . Göttingen 1917 ( research on the religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments 26)
  • Callist and Tertullian. A contribution to the history of the early Christian penance disputes and the Roman primacy . Heidelberg 1919 ( meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class 22)
  • Cyprian investigations . Bonn 1926 ( works on church history 4)
  • Adhuc virgo. Mary's virginity and marriage in the ancient church tradition up to the end of the 4th century . Tübingen 1929 ( contributions to historical theology 2)
  • Cathedra Petri. New Investigations into the Beginnings of the Primate Doctrine . Giessen 1930
  • Sources on the history of asceticism and monasticism in the old church . Tübingen 1933
  • Gelasius in the ecclesiastical service of his predecessors, the Popes Simplicius (468-483) and Felix III. (483-492) . Munich 1935 ( meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Department 35)
  • Rosenberg and the Bible. To the dispute over the "myth of the 20th century" . Leipzig 1935. 2, extended edition 1936
  • Virgo Eva, Virgo Maria. New Studies on the Doctrine of Virginity and Marriage in the Eldest Church . Berlin / Leipzig 1937 ( works on church history 25)

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelfingen
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1940
Place of death Munich