Johann Anton Theiner

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Johann Anton Theiner (born December 5, 1799 in Breslau ; † May 15, 1860 there ) was a German Catholic theologian .

Life

Johann Anton Theiner visited in Wroclaw, St. Matthias High School and studied since 1818 theology at the local university . He entered the seminary, was ordained a priest in 1822 and employed as a chaplain in Zobten am Bober and Liegnitz . Through the mediation of his teacher Anton Dereser he became in 1824 an associate professor of exegesis and canon law at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Wroclaw and acquired in 1826 a doctorate in theology and canon law. He took an active part in the Reformation movements of the Catholic Church, which in the late 1820s advocated the abolition of forced celibacy and other changes in Silesia and southern Germany. In Breslau he initiated the presentation submitted by eleven clergymen on November 20, 1826, which called for the abolition of the Latin language at church services , revision of the missal and ritual and the introduction of a general diocesan hymn .

The Prussian government forbade Theiner to hold lectures on canon law because of his liberal religious views. As a result, he resigned his professorship and became pastor in Polsnitz in Silesia in 1830, in Großau in 1836 and in Hundsfeld near Breslau in 1837 . When the German-Catholic movement was initiated by Johannes Ronge in 1845 , he joined it after resigning from his position as pastor and resigning from the Catholic Church. He was therefore excommunicated by the Prince-Bishop in November 1845. He became a German Catholic pastor in Breslau, but gave up this office again in 1848 and also withdrew from the German Catholics. Since then he has lived as a private scholar in Breslau until the Prussian government appointed him secretary of the university library there in 1855, a position he held until his death in 1860.

Theiner's literary achievements belong to the field of exegesis and related theological ones, but especially to subjects that were close to his Reformation direction. Already in the dissertation Variae doctorum catholicorum opiniones de jure statuendi impedimenta matrimonium dirimentia 1824 he advocates the independent right of the state to regulate marriages on the basis of the Gallicans and Josefinism . His next work, De Pseudo-Isidoriana canonum collectione 1827, is essentially a compilation. He became particularly well-known for the work published with his brother Augustin Theiner , The introduction of forced celibacy among the Christian clergy and its consequences (2 parts, Altenb. 1828; 2nd edition. 1845), which contains a lot of material of a historical nature and for the assessment of the Object and had a determining influence on the course of his life. This work was placed on the index of forbidden books by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1829 . The last book, which belongs here, The Reformation Endeavors in the Catholic Church (3 Hefte, Altenb. 1845–46.) Reports in particular on the attitude of the Prussian government towards reform efforts in Silesia and then describes the author's life under sharp criticism of Prince-Bishop Melchior von Diepenbrock .

More fonts

  • Descriptio codicis manuscripti, qui versionem Pentateuchi arabicam continet , Breslau 1822
  • The Catholic Church of Silesia: together with an appendix, containing some wishes of a long-term pastor , Altenburg 1826 digitized
  • The twelve little prophets , Leipzig 1828
  • An agenda for the German-Catholic worship service , 1845
  • The Dogma of Beatitude of the Roman Catholic Church , Breslau 1847
  • Revelations about the teachings and life of the Catholic clergy , Sondershausen 1862

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Remarks

  1. ^ Theiner, Johann Anton , on: Kulturportal West-Ost
  2. ^ Theiner, Johann Anton. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 875 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Theiner, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1860
Place of death Wroclaw