Johannes Friedrich (Old Catholic)

Johannes Friedrich (born May 5, 1836 in Poxdorf (Upper Franconia) , † August 19, 1917 in Munich ) was a Catholic theologian and Old Catholic .

Life

Johannes Friedrich was ordained a priest in 1859. From 1862 to 1865 he worked as a private lecturer, from 1865 to 1873 as an associate professor, from 1873 as a full professor at the University of Munich . In 1869 he was called to the First Vatican Council as a student of Ignaz von Döllinger . He recorded the events there, including the proclamation of the dogma of the infallibility of the papacy , in a diary. After their return, he and Döllinger refused to recognize the decisions of the council and to submit to the faculty. Both were excommunicated on April 17, 1871. Friedrich was involved in founding the Old Catholic Faculty in Bern and held lectures there for one semester in 1875.

From 1880 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works

Church history in Germany (two volumes) Bamberg 1867–1869
Diary kept during the Vatican Council, Nördlingen 1871
Documenta ad illustrandum Concilium Vaticanum, Munich 1871
The Mechanism of the Vatican Religion, Bonn 1876
Contributions to the Church History of the 18th Century, Munich 1876
History of the Vatican Council (two volumes) Bonn 1877–1883
On the oldest history of primacy, Bonn 1879

literature

Werner Küppers : Friedrich, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 601 ( digitized version ).
Ewald Kessler: Friedrich, Johann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : FRIEDRICH, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 131-132. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Friedrich . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 6, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 726.
Ewald Kessler: Johann Friedrich (1836 - 1917): a contribution to the history of Old Catholicism. Munich: Wölfle 1975 (dissertation)

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Friedrich - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Johannes Friedrich in the catalog of the German National Library
The estate in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

^ Johann Friedrich obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).

personal data
SURNAME	Friedrich, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poxdorf (Upper Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1917
Place of death	Munich

[1] Johann Friedrich obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).