Isnard Wilhelm Frank

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Isnard Wilhelm Frank OP (born September 25, 1930 in Wiblingen , † October 13, 2010 in Vienna ) was a German religious and Catholic theologian . He was professor for Middle and Modern Church History at the University of Mainz .

Life

After graduating from high school in Ehingen in 1950 , he first studied theology in Tübingen and Munich and entered the southern German-Austrian province of the Dominican Order of Preachers in autumn 1953 . Among the various motives for this choice of order - and not for the Benedictines, for example - the presence of the order in Ulm until the Reformation, as well as Heinrich Seuse, who died in Ulm (1366), played a secondary role . In 1958 he was ordained a priest by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Joseph Ferche together with his brother Karl Suso Frank , who belonged to the Franciscan order and was also a church historian. Since he wanted to make a name for himself in the history of the order, the provincial at the time allowed him to complete the two-year course at the “Institute for Austrian Historical Research”, also with a view to historical research in the area of ​​the German Dominicans. In 1961 he joined the Austrian Catholic University Association Franco-Bavaria in the ÖCV .

After passing the state examination at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, he continued his historical studies, which he completed in 1969 with a thesis on the Viennese Dominicans and a doctorate in Dr. phil. completed. He then worked as a lecturer for church history at the order's own training center in Walberberg and was also involved in historical research in Vienna. From 1969 to 1972 he only followed his teaching position in Walberberg in the form of a four-week block lecture. From 1969 to 1975 he was prior of the Vienna Dominican Convention. As a CVer, he was also involved in student pastoral care .

In 1975 Frank completed his habilitation at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in the subject of church history and was then initially a private lecturer, later an associate professor in Vienna. In 1979 he was the Chair of Modern and Modern Church History at the Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz appointed . He was also head of the "Institute for Research into the History of the Dominican Order in the German-speaking Area". At that time he had settled “at home” in the Dominican convent of Worms (→ Pauluskirche (Worms) ).

After retiring and completing various remaining university tasks, he returned to the Vienna Dominican Convention in 1998 as a sub-priority .

Frank published numerous writings on his research areas of medieval university and religious history. His medieval church history has been translated into English, Spanish, and Italian.

Publications (selection)

  • The tension between religious life and scientific work in the early Dominican order. In: Archive for Cultural History , ed. by Fritz Wagner, Arno Borst and Herbert Grundmann, Volume 49, Böhlau, Cologne and Graz 1967, pp. 164–207.
  • House studies and university studies of the Viennese Dominicans until 1500. Böhlau, Vienna 1968.
  • The anti-conciliarist Dominican Leonhard Huntpichler. A contribution to the conciliarism of the Vienna University in the 15th century (= Archive for Austrian History, Vol. 131). Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0147-3 .
  • Francis of Assisi - Question for an Answer. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1982.
  • Church history of the Middle Ages (= Guide Theology Vol. 14). Düsseldorf 1984. 2nd edition: Patmos, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-70419-0 .
  • Francis of Assisi : question for an answer (= Topos pocket books vol. 224). Grünewald, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7867-1661-7 .
  • The Book of the Dead of the Dominican Monastery in Mainz. Commentary and edition (= sources and research on the history of the Dominican Order NF Vol. 3). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002158-6 .
  • Lexicon of monasticism and orders. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010524-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frank, Isnard Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious chaplain, Catholic theologian, professor for Middle and Modern Church History at the University of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiblingen
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2010
Place of death Vienna