Johann Nepomuk Brischar

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Johann Nepomuk Brischar (born August 22, 1819 in Horb , † April 11, 1897 in Bühl ) was a German Catholic church historian .

Life

Johann Nepomuk Brischar was born as one of eleven children of the clothing maker Georg Severin Brischar, tenant on the Ramstein near Rottweil, and his wife Antonia, née. Schrof, born on August 22, 1819 in Horb, Württemberg. From 1835 to 1838 he attended grammar school and the royal Konvikt Rottweil and studied from 1839 to 1843 at the University of Tübingen . The theological faculty honored the talented student in 1842 with its annually awarded prize. Johann Brischar received his doctorate in both theology and philosophy . He was ordained a priest on August 28, 1844 .

In 1845 and 1846 Johann Brischar traveled through northern Germany and to Austria, Italy and France for research in archives. After his return in November 1846 he became a repetiteur at the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen. There he taught history. In 1851 he was given responsibility for editing the Wiener Litteraturzeitung .

In February 1853 Johann Brischar was appointed pastor in Bühl, a village between Rottenburg and Tübingen. For 41 years, until his retirement in 1894, he devoted himself to pastoral care as a village pastor and at the same time cultivated his scientific interests until, as Hugo Koch put it, “death on April 11, 1897 redeemed the tired old man”.

Works

  • several articles in the Theological Quarterly
  • Assessment of the controversies of Sarpi and Pallavicini in the history of the Council of Trent (Tübingen 1844)
  • The Catholic pulpit speakers in Germany since the last centuries (five volumes; Schaffhausen 1866/1871)
  • History of the religion of Jesus Christ (volumes 46 to 53) (1850/1854)
  • Innocent III. and his time (Freiburg 1883)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Jakob Neher : Personal catalog of the clergy of the Diocese of Rottenburg who have been ordained and used in pastoral care since 1813 . Roth (Odenwaldt & Lautenschlager), Schwäbisch Gmünd, 3rd, possibly edition 1894.
  2. ^ Hugo Koch: Brischar, Johann Nepomuk . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 47 (1903), p. 259.


personal data
SURNAME Brischar, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Horb
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1897
Place of death Buhl