Iso Baumer

Iso Baumer (born April 4, 1929 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss scholar of religion and was a lecturer at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

Life

Iso Josef Bernhard Baumer grew up in the St. Gallen-Heiligkreuz district . There the sculptor and youth leader Albert Oesch (1907-1936) founded the Catholic boys' youth organization Tarzisiusbund , of which Baumer became a member from 1937. As a teenager from 1944 to 1948, Baumer wrote a comprehensive biography of Oesch, which, however, was only accessible to a limited group. During this time Baumer graduated from the literary high school of the St. Gallen Cantonal School . He then studied linguistics and literature in Bern , Freiburg, Paris ( Sorbonne ) and Rome and was awarded a doctorate in 1956. phil. PhD . In 1959 he married Verena Müller, a daughter of the legal historian Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi . Baumer was a high school teacher in Bern and lecturer in Eastern Church Studies on the one hand at the University of Freiburg (1988–1999) as the successor to the dogmatics professor and later Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and on the other hand at the theological school of Einsiedeln Abbey (2002–2008). From 1994 to 2000 he was Secretary General of Catholica Unio Internationalis .

He is the founder of the Baumer Fund at the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg.

Baumer dealt with theology at an early age and wrote many publications on western and eastern church history (religious folklore , eastern church studies). He is known for his network, his knowledge of the Christian churches and his balanced analyzes.

Works (selection)

• Max of Saxony . Prince and prophet, priest and professor . 3 volumes, Universitätsverlag Freiburg, 1990–1996; ISBN 3-7278-0652-4 , ISBN 3-7278-0828-4 , ISBN 3-7278-1044-0
• Prince Max of Saxony and Armenia. In contradiction to current opinions and attitudes in church and state . Donat & Temmen publishing house , Bremen, 1986; ISBN 3-924444-17-X
• Prince Max of Saxony. Unity of the churches, way of life, peace . Wittig Verlag, Hamburg, 1985; ISBN 3-8048-4309-3
• Jacob Joseph Matthys . Priest - linguist - dialectologist . Contributions to the history of Nidwalden, vol. 42; Verlag Historischer Verein Nidwalden, 1985
• Romansh names of diseases . Francke Publishing House , Bern, 1962
• Pèlerinages jurassiens. Le Vorbourg près de Delémont . 2 volumes, Editions Jurassiennes, Porrentruy, 1976–1984
• Pilgrimage today . Verlag Kanisius, Freiburg, 1978; ISBN 3-85764-057-X
• Pilgrimage as an action game. A contribution to the understanding of religious action . Lang publishing house, Bern / Frankfurt a. M., 1977; ISBN 3-261-02129-2
• The imagery of the people. Customs and Beliefs . Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, 1980; ISBN 3-7193-0662-3
• Changing tradition. Contributions to Italian folklore . Verlag Krebs, Basel, 1967
• Albert Büchi 1864–1930. Foundation and beginnings of the University of Freiburg i. Ü. University Press Freiburg, 1987; ISBN 3-7278-0533-1
• Niklaus von Flüe , the desert father on the mountain stream . Verlag Kanisius, Freiburg; 2nd edition 1998; ISBN 978-3-85764-485-6
• The Eastern Church in the work of Edzard Schaper . In: Approaches: Edzard Schaper rediscovered? Schwabe, Basel 2000; ISBN 3-7965-1559-2 , pp. 35-53
• Christianity - Islam. A 1400 year old conflict . Solothurn, 2008
• Testimonies of Faith of Algerian Christians . A contribution to interreligious understanding . Verlag Kanisius, Freiburg, 2001; ISBN 3-85764-540-7
• The monks of Tibhirine . The Algerian Witnesses of Faith - Background and Hopes . Verlag Neue Stadt, Munich, 2010; ISBN 978-3-87996-911-1
• From the Unio to the Communio (Catholica Unio). University Press Freiburg, 2002; ISBN 3-7278-1368-7
• Encounters: Collected Essays 1949–1999 . University Press Freiburg, 1999; ISBN 3-7278-1206-0
• Nerses von Lambron - The impatience of love . Paulinus Verlag, Trier, 2013; ISBN 978-3-7902-1460-4
• Give peace. Prince Max of Saxony . Academic Press, Freiburg, 2015; ISBN 978-3-7278-1769-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Church Newspaper
2. ↑ Archdiocese of Vienna: Personalities (p. 12) (PDF; 3.4 MB)
3. ↑ From the Unio to Communio (ecumenical supplements; p. 383; see above, under "Literature")
4. ^ Structures of the cover-up in the Catholic Church ; Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 6, 2011
5. ↑ Academic Press, Friborg ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Google Books
7. ^ Fund Baumer, Ecumenical Institute, University of Freiburg i. Ue.
8. ↑ Perlentaucher culture magazine
9. ↑ Haus zum Dolder (PDF; 694 kB)
10. ↑ Europäische Hochschulschriften, Series 14, Volume 12
11. ^ Google Books , and Book Review Catholica Unio
12. ↑ Church Gazette No. 9/2008 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.9 MB)  
13. ^ Google Books

Web links

• Literature by and about Iso Baumer in the catalog of the German National Library