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.
- 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
- 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 | |
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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 |