Johann Wilhelm Joseph Braun

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Johann Wilhelm Joseph Peter Braun (born April 27, 1801 in Haus Gronau near Düren , † September 30, 1863 in Bonn ) was a German Catholic church historian .

Life

Joseph Braun studied in Bonn, Breslau and Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1828 he was employed as a repetiteur at the Konvikt in Bonn. In 1829 he became an associate professor, and in 1833 a full professor of church history at the University of Bonn . Hindered in his work by the papal condemnation breve about his master Georg Hermes , he undertook a vain trip to Rome with Peter Joseph Elvenich in 1837 in order to obtain a revision of the Hermesian process, and joined in 1843 because he did not want to submit to the condemnation judgment his colleague Johann Heinrich Achterfeld suspended by the Archbishop.

From May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849 he represented Düren as a member of the German National Assembly for the 22nd constituency of Rhineland , where he was part of the Paris court . In 1850 he became a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament and from 1852 belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives.

Since 1847 he was a member of the board of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland . He wrote numerous essays in the association's Bonn yearbooks .

Fonts (selection)

  • The teachings of so-called Hermesianism on the relationship between reason and revelation , 1835
  • with Peter Joseph Elvenich: Acta Romana , 1838
  • Bibliotheca regularum fidei , 2 vols., Bonn 1844
  • Meletemata theologica , Hanover 1837
  • Acta romana , Hanover 1838
  • Declaration of the ancient sarcophagus in Trier , Bonn 1850
  • The Capitol , Bonn 1849
  • Raffaels Disputa , Düsseldorf 1859 ( digitized version )
  • The Minorite Monastery and the New Museum in Cologne , 1862

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, pp. 347–349.