Johann Peter Kirsch

Grave of Johann Peter Kirsch on the Campo Santo Teutonico

Johann Peter Kirsch (born November 3, 1861 in Dippach / Luxembourg; † February 4, 1941 in Rome ) was a Catholic priest, church historian and Christian archaeologist.

He was the son of the farmer Andreas Kirsch and his wife Katharina, geb. Didier. He attended the seminary in Luxembourg and was ordained in 1884. He continued his studies at the priestly college of Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome.

From 1888 to 1890, Kirsch was the first director of the Historical Institute of the Görres Society in Rome. From 1890 to 1932 he was professor of patrology and Christian archeology at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , from 1925 he was head of the of him on behalf of Pope Pius XI. founded Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana . The curial financial administration in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Roman title and station churches as well as the early Roman calendars were his main research areas. In 1932 he was appointed Apostolic Protonotary .

Kirsch wrote many articles for the English-language Catholic Encyclopedia .

Fonts

• The financial management of the Cardinal College in the XIII. and XIV. Century (= Church History Studies. Vol. 2, 4, ZDB -ID 513348-8 ). Schöningh, Münster 1895.
• The Roman title churches in antiquity (= studies on the history and culture of antiquity. Vol. 9, 1/2, ZDB -ID 510174-8 ). Schöningh, Paderborn 1918.
• The urban Roman Christian festival calendar in antiquity. Text-critical studies on the Roman "Depositiones" and the Martyrologium Hieronymianum (= sources of liturgy history. Vol. 7/8, ZDB -ID 517932-4 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1924.
• The station churches of the Missale Romanum. With an investigation into the origin and development of the liturgical station celebration (= Ecclesia orans. Vol. 19, ZDB -ID 569840-6 ). Herder & Co., Freiburg (Breisgau) 1926.
• Articles in: Catholic Encyclopedia (on Wikisource)

literature

• Wilhelm Baum:  Kirsch, Johann Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 672 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Baus : Johann Peter Kirsch † , in: Römische Viertelschrift 47 (1939 [published 1942]), pp. 9-14
• Stefan Heid : Johann Peter Kirsch . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 1, pp. 732-735.
• Johannes Madey :  Johann Peter Kirsch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1533-1534.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Peter Kirsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Johann Peter Kirsch in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Victor Conzemius: Kirsch, Johann Peter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .