Johann Theodor Katerkamp

Johann Theodor Katerkamp (born January 17, 1764 in Ochtrup , † June 9, 1834 in Münster ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

Johann Theodor Katerkamp, ​​son of the farmer Johann Heinrich Eberhard and his wife Maria, received his education in the Progymnasium of the Franciscan Order in Rheine . From 1781 he attended the Paulinum high school in Münster and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Münster from 1783 to 1787 . After he was ordained a priest in 1787 , he worked as a tutor until 1796 . With his two students, Klemens August Droste and Hans-Otto Droste , Katerkamp went on a two-year educational trip through Germany, Switzerland , Italy and Sicily . From 1797 he worked as a tutor to Amalie von Gallitzin ; this activity ended with the death of the princess in 1806. Three years later, in 1809, Johann Katerkamp became a lecturer in church history at the University of Münster. In 1816 he was appointed associate professor of church history and moral theology , and in 1819 full professor of church history and canon law . The University of Landshut awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology in 1820 . The next year Katerkamp was appointed examinator synodalis , in 1823 cathedral capitular and in 1831 cathedral dean in Münster. Three years later, on June 9, 1834, Johann Theodor Katerkamp died there.

Works

• About the primacy of the apostle Peter and his successors; to refute the 3rd supplement in the 3rd booklet of Sophronizon
• Instructions for self-examination for secular priests. Based on the French "Miroir du Clergé" (two volumes; Münster 1806 and 1836)
• History of religion up to the foundation of a general church. As an introduction to church history (Münster 1819)
• Memories from the life of Princess Amalia von Gallitzin, born Countess von Schmettau (Münster 1839)

literature

• Wilhelm Baum:  Katerkamp, ​​Johann Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 325 ( digitized version ).
• Anton Lutterbeck :  Katerkamp, ​​Johann Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 452 f.
• Karl Josef Lesch :  Katerkamp, ​​Johann Theodor. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1211-1213.
• Anton Pieper : The old University of Münster 1773–1818 (1902)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Theodor Katerkamp in the catalog of the German National Library