Johannes Kollwitz

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Johannes Kollwitz (born April 3, 1903 in Magdeburg , † April 1, 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Catholic theologian and Christian archaeologist .

Life

Johannes Kollwitz, son of a railway official, studied Catholic theology in Paderborn , Freiburg and Breslau from 1921 . During his studies, Kollwitz developed a keen interest in Christian art history, which was encouraged by his academic teachers. After being ordained a priest in Paderborn in 1928, Kollwitz first worked as a pastor in Halle. In addition, he wrote a dissertation on the Lipsanothek of Brescia with Joseph Sauer in Freiburg , with which he was awarded a Dr. theol. received his doctorate .

For the year 1932/33 Kollwitz received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to do research in Italy, Greece and Turkey. From 1934 to 1937 he worked as a consultant for Christian archeology at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome , during this time he lived at Campo Santo Teutonico . In Rome, Kollwitz mainly dealt with Eastern Roman sculpture from the Theodosian period, for which he prepared a comprehensive study. With part of this work he completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1938. Shortly afterwards he received the order from Gerhart Rodenwaldt to create a corpus of the sarcophagi of Ravenna . Kollwitz occupied himself with this project until his death without seeing it go to press. The volume was completed by Helga Herdejürgen .

Upon his return to Germany, Kollwitz had unsuccessful attempts to obtain a theological lectureship at a German university. He worked as a pastor, first in Halle, from 1939 on at the Schlosskirche in Meinberg , where he stayed until the end of the Second World War .

In 1946 Kollwitz received a professorship for church history, patrology and Christian archeology at the Episcopal Academy in Paderborn. In 1950 he switched to the chair for Patrology and Christian Archeology at the University of Freiburg. From there he made several trips to the Mediterranean countries. From 1952 he was excavation manager in Resafa (Sergioupolis) in Syria. In 1958 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . From 1965 Kollwitz was a representative of Christian archeology in the central directorate of the German Archaeological Institute , of which he had been a full member since 1953.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Brescia Lipsanotheque . de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1933. Reprint Berlin 1978 (= dissertation)
  • The relief columns of Constantinople and the political ideas of the Theodosian period . Berlin 1941 (= partial print of the habilitation thesis)
  • Eastern Roman sculpture of the Theodosian period . de Gruyter, Berlin 1941. Reprinted Berlin 1978
  • The third century image of Christ . Munster 1953
  • with Wolfgang Schöne and Hans von Campenhausen : The image of God in the West . Witten / Berlin 1957. 2nd edition, Berlin / Witten 1959
  • The sarcophagi of the western areas of the Roman Empire. Part 2. The Ravennatic Sarcophagi . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1978

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SURNAME Kollwitz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and Christian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1968
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau