Jakob Baumgartner

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Jakob Baumgartner (born November 18, 1926 in Montlingen , † September 14, 1996 in Immensee ) was a Swiss liturgist .

Baumgartner was born in Montlingen as the son of a blacksmith and the eighth of ten children. In 1948 he passed the Matura at the higher commercial school in Neuchâtel. In 1950 he entered the novitiate of the Mission Society of Bethlehem-Immensee (SMB). In 1957 he was ordained a priest. With Balthasar Fischer in Trier he received his doctorate in 1968 with the two-volume dissertation Mission and Liturgy in Mexico . From 1969 to 1991 he taught as professor for liturgical science at the University of Friborg . On September 19, 1996, he was buried in the cemetery of the Immensee Mission House.

Publications

  • [With Josef Bommer:] Repentance and reconciliation celebrations. Pastoral theological introduction and liturgical models. Benziger / Herder, Einsiedeln, Zurich, Cologne, Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna 1972.
  • The Sacrament of Baptism. Kanisius Verlag / Verlag Sankt Gabriel, Freiburg (Switzerland), Mödling near Vienna 1976.
  • The church year. Small introduction. Kanisius Verlag / Verlag Sankt Gabriel, Freiburg (Switzerland), Mödling near Vienna 1978.
  • Sunday, Lord's Day. Kanisius Verlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1978.
  • [As editor:] Believer dealing with the world. The blessings of the church. Benziger / Herder, Einsiedeln, Zurich, Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna 1976.
  • [As editor:] Rediscovery of popular religiosity. Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 978-3-7917-0581-1 .

literature

  • Alberich Martin Altermatt: P. Jakob Baumgartner (1926–1996) , in: Journal for Swiss Church History , No. 91 (1997), pp. 149–151.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montlingen
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1996
Place of death Immensee