Johann Matthias Watterich

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Johann Matthias Watterich (born December 21, 1826 in Trier ; † January 10, 1904 in Beuron Abbey ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and historian.

Life

After graduating from the Trier grammar school, Watterich began studying theology at the local seminary and then studied history and literature at the University of Bonn . He was ordained a priest in 1849. In 1853 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster with a dissertation on the nobility of the Teutons. He wrote a habilitation thesis on the establishment of the Teutonic Order State . In November 1855 he had received a position as a lecturer in world history and literary studies at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg ; He took up his lectures on history there at Easter 1856. After the end of 1857 he went to Rome for a year with royal permission to conduct archival research there. His research work in Rome was reflected in his Vitae Pontificum . For this achievement he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Catholic theological faculty of the university on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the University of Wroclaw . However, this title was not recognized by the church. In 1862 he was appointed full professor at the Lyceum Hosianum . At Easter 1863 he gave up his teaching post in Braunsberg to take a job as a pastor in Andernach am Rhein. In 1870 he worked as a librarian at the University of Münster. In the period 1871–1882 he was active in pastoral care, initially as a chaplain in Diedenhofen during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 . After suffering a stroke, he spent the end of his life in seclusion in the Beuron monastery as an oblate , where he also died.

Works (selection)

  • De veterum Germanorum nobilitate (dissertation). Münster 1853 ( full text )
  • De Lucae Watzelrode , episcopi varmiensis in Nicolaum Copernicum meritis . Regimonti 1856.
  • The foundation of the Teutonic Order in Prussia . Leipzig 1857 ( full text ), ( digitized version )
  • Gottfried von Straßburg , singer of the Madonna of God . Leipzig 1858 ( full text ) ( contemporary review )
  • Nikolaus Koppernik a German . In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Volume 1, year 1858–1860, Mainz 1860, pp. 400–405 ( full text )
  • Pontificum Romanorum, qui fuerunt inde from exeunte saeculo IX. usque ad finum saeculi XIII., vitae ab aequalibus conscriptae . Leipzig 1862, two volumes ( contemporary review )
  • The German name Germanen and the ethnographic question of the left bank of the Rhine. A historical investigation . Paderborn 1870 ( full text )
  • The Teutons of the Rhine. Your struggle with Rome and the covenant idea . Leipzig 1872
  • The Vatican Religion No Religion of Peace , 1883 (lecture, 30 pages).
  • The consecration moment in Holy Communion and its history , 1896 (340 pages).

literature

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Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Joseph Bender , ed.:. History of Philosophical and Theological Studies in Warmia. Festschrift of the Royal Lyceums Hosianum zu Braunsberg on its fiftieth anniversary celebration, as well as to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the Hosian institutes in general , Braunsberg 1868, p. 159
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Schmitt:  Watterich, Johann Matthias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1522-1525.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia . Born in 1861, No. 8, Berlin, August 29, 1861, p. 456
personal data
SURNAME Watterich, Johann Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1904
Place of death Beuron Monastery