Johannes Bernhard Diepenbrock

Johann Bernard Diepenbrock (born February 25, 1796 in Haus Langen in Everswinkel near Warendorf; † November 12, 1884 in Lingen ), Roman Catholic, theologian and historian .

life and work

Johann Bernard Diepenbrock was the son of the landowner Christoph Diepenbrock and his wife Anna Elisabeth, b. Bird. He attended the normal school in Münster with the well-known spiritual school reformer Bernhard Heinrich Overberg , then a high school there. He studied theology and philosophy at the Münster Academy. The student registered at the age of 17 to voluntarily take part in the campaigns against Napoleon I in 1813/1814 . After resuming his studies in Münster and graduating with a teaching qualification, Diepenbrock was employed as a teacher in Meppen in 1819 . At the same time he was ordained a priest in December of this year. The young clergyman remained a teacher at the grammar school in Meppen until 1845. From autumn 1832 to autumn 1833 Diepenbrock studied for advanced training in Berlin. In public, the spiritual educator was involved in the Meppen Mäßigkeitsverein, which was committed to the fight against the widespread drunkenness. During his time in Meppen, he made his first historical research into the past of the Emsstadt at the beginning of the 1830s. His main work, the 786-page history of the former Münster office of Meppen or the current Hanoverian Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen, was published in Münster in 1838. Its unusually high level of reliability through intensive source work, as well as its interesting and understandable presentation, contributed to the wide distribution of the work and its long lasting effects.

The senior teacher at the Meppener Gymnasium left school in 1845 and became pastor in Quakenbrück , then in 1852 dean in Lingen , where he was often involved, including as a prison chaplain, as the founder of a kindergarten for railway workers and, above all, a hospital from his private funds. The Bonifatiushospital is now one of the city's largest employers. Diepenbrock's appointment to the Osnabrück cathedral chapter was refused by the Hanoverian king due to his political proximity to the later center leader Ludwig Windthorst . Despite his old age and increasing health restrictions, which largely tied him to the house in the last years of his life, Diepenbrock did not resign from his pastoral office and was also not retired in order not to cause pastoral problems for the community as a result of the " Kulturkampf " . On his 50th anniversary as a priest on December 16, 1869, the Philosophical Faculty of Münster awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Works

• Historical news about the city of Meppen and the Emsland (from 1252 to 1678), in: Gemeinnütziges Taschenbuch mixed content on the year of Christ 1831, Meppen o. J., pp. 19-69.
• Historical news about the city of Meppen and the Emsland, in: Gemeinnütziges Taschenbuch mixed content on the year of Christ 1832. Hand and note calendar on d. Year of Christ 1832. For state officials a. Hzgtms businessmen. Arenberg-Meppen and counties Lingen u. Bentheim, Meppen 1832, pp. 19-82.
• History of the former Münster office of Meppen or of the current Hanoverian Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen, with special consideration of the earlier seats of peoples and antiquities between Ems and Hase, the introduction of Christianity, the change of religion at the time of the Reformation, the achievements of the Jesuits: first as missionaries in the Emslande , Saterlande, East Friesland, the counties of Bentheim and Lingen, then as founder and teacher of the high school in Meppen . Münster 1838 (Lingen 21886, Münster 31962); Digitized edition d. Reprint of the 2nd edition 1885 of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• A sermon on I. Pet. V 8, given in the local grammar school church on the third Sunday in Lent on the occasion of the establishment of the abstinence association in the city of Meppen, Meppen (1840).
• Sermon of penance, given on Palm Sunday (Luc 19:42), in: Christkatholisches Magazin, 3rd volume, booklet I, Münster 1843, pp. 43–57.

swell

• German Biographical Archive NF Microfiche No. 235 p. 192 (J. Bernard) and p. 191 (Bernhard).
• Werner von Beesten, contributions to the chronicle of the city of Lingen from the years 1860 to 1880. Reprint of the edition Lingen 1880, Lingen undated, pp. 26-27.
• Rainer Hehemann, Art. Diepenbrock, Johann Bernhard, in: Rainer Hehemann (arrangement), Biographical Handbook for the History of the Osnabrück Region. Edited by the Osnabrück Landscape Association, Bramsche 1990, p. 63.
• Heinrich B. Lackmann, Heinrich Lackmann (1805–1882). Historical sketches and biographical notes on the life of a cleric from Emsland in the 19th century. With an overview of the history of the Lackmann farm and the farmers in Schwefingen, Münster 1992, pp. 85–87.
• Helmut Lensing, Art. Diepenbrock, Johann Bernard, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 12, Haselünne 2005, pp. 325–334.
• Theodor Penners, The hospital system in Emsland and the county of Bentheim. Origin and early development (1851–1914), in: Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to history, vol. 8th ed. Of the Emsland landscape for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim eV, Sögel 1992, 9–122, pp. 83–87.
• Nicolas Rügge, "854–2004": Local anniversaries in the Emsland. JB Diepenbrock and the Corveyer Traditions, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 2004, Vol. 109, Osnabrück 2004, pp. 11-25.
• Ernst Raßmann, News from the life and writings of Münsterland writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Münster 1866, pp. 81–82.
• Ernst Raßmann, News from the Life and Writings of Münsterland Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New series, Münster 1881, pp. 49–50.
• Johannes Rüschen, Johannes Bernhard Diepenbrock (1796–1884) - "Father of Emsland historiography", in: Johannes Rüschen (ed.), Emsland life pictures from the past. Biographical notes on Emsland personalities from the 9th century to the present day, Bremen undated, pp. 37–39.
• Ludwig Schriever, history of the Lingen district. Vol. 2, Lingen 1910, pp. 85-86.

Web links

• Entry about Johannes Bernhard Diepenbrock in the Emsland authors' lexicon ( Memento from May 11, 2002 in the web archive archive.today )