Johann Baptist Alzog

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Johann Baptist Alzog

Johann Baptist Alzog (born June 29, 1808 in Ohlau , Silesia , † March 1, 1878 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian .

biography

He was the son of the red tanner master Joseph Alzog and his wife Elisabeth born. Schubert. After attending grammar school in Brieg , he studied Catholic theology at the universities of Breslau and Bonn . From 1830 to 1834 Alzog worked as a private tutor in Aachen and was ordained a priest in Cologne on July 4, 1834. In 1845 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. He then taught exegesis and church history at the seminary in Poznan . When the Archbishop of Posen, Martin von Dunin , who wanted to forbid marriages according to the Roman Catholic rite between Catholics and other denominations, was reprimanded by the Prussian king for this action, Johann Baptist Alzog supported the bishop.

His textbook on universal church history , published in Mainz in 1841 , which quickly saw several editions, established the priest's supraregional reputation. The Cologne bishop Johannes von Geissel wanted to appoint him to the University of Bonn, which the Prussian government refused. In 1844 the theologian was appointed cathedral capitular in Hildesheim , where he also worked as a professor and vice-regency of the seminary from 1845 . In 1848 he became regens of the seminary.

In 1853 Alzog received the chair for church history at the University of Freiburg and was appointed to the clergy . He held this office until his death.

In 1869 he also took part in the preparation of Vatican I as a consultor in Rome . At the church assembly he supported the dogma of papal infallibility .

In 1876 Alzog was accepted as an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau .

Heinrich Hansjakob , who studied with him, wrote about him: "Alzog was a teacher of very extensive knowledge, but his lecture was partly disruptive, partly funny because he used to switch on the words 'for there' after every second sentence."

Publications (selection)

  • Explicatio catholicorum systematis de interpretatione literarum sacrarum. Commentatio theologico-polemica . Dissertation Münster 1835.
  • Universal history of the Christian Church from the Catholic standpoint. Textbook for theological lectures . Mainz 1841, 2nd edition 1843, 4th edition 1846, 5th edition 1850, 6th edition 1855, 7th edition 1860 ( digital version )
    • Handbook of Universal Church History . 8th edition 1866/67; 9th edition 1872
    • Handbook of General Church History . 10th edition, revised by Franz Xaver Kraus , 1882
  • Outline of patrology or the older Christian literary history . Freiburg i. Br. 1866. 2nd edition 1869; 3rd edition 1876; 4th edition 1888
  • Itinerarium or Raisbüchlin of P. Conrad Burger, conventual of the Cistercian monastery Tennenbach and confessor in the women's monastery Wonnental from 1641 to 1678 . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 5, 1870, pp. 247–358 and 6, 1871, pp. 73–157.
  • The German plenaries in the 15th and early 16th centuries (1470–1522). A contribution to the history of religious education at that time, especially in southern Germany . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 8, 1874, pp. 255–330.

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  1. ↑ Heinrich Hans Jacob Ausgewälte writings , Volume 2: From my studies , Stuttgart 1910, S. 223 ( digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Alzog, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Oława , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1878
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau