Johannes Kosnetter

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Johannes Kosnetter (born July 27, 1902 in Vienna ; † March 1, 1980 ibid ) was an Austrian theologian and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school , Johannes Kosnetter studied Catholic theology at the universities of Vienna and Berlin and was ordained a priest in 1925 . From 1925 to 1931 he was a chaplain in Kirchberg am Wechsel and in the second district of Vienna. He also taught religion at several middle schools . Kosnetter received his doctorate in 1930 and then became chaplain at the Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome in 1931 . At the same time he studied exegesis and oriental languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. In 1936 he became a private lecturer in theology at the University of Vienna and went on a study trip to Palestine . In 1937 he became an associate professor in Vienna. After study trips to Greece and Turkey in 1939 , Kosnetter became a full professor in Vienna in the same year. After the Second World War , Kosnetter stayed at the University of Vienna, where he was Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty from 1949 to 1950. On February 12, 1973 he was awarded the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Since 1921 he was a member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Aargau Vienna.

Relationship to National Socialism

During the Nazi era, Kosnetter brought food to a dismissed Jewish middle school teacher in her apartment on Leopoldstrasse for years. Two doctoral theses completed by Kosnetter in 1942 and 1943, which dealt with the relationship between Jesus and Paul and the Jewish people, have nothing to do with the anti-Semitism of the Nazis.

Publications

  • The baptism of Jesus. Exegetical and religious history studies . Vienna: Mayer 1936.
  • The novelty of Christianity . Vienna: Herder 1949.
  • Theodor Cardinal Innitzer in memory. Commemorative speech given at the academic funeral service of the University of Vienna on December 17, 1956 . Vienna: Herder 1957.
  • Nietzsche and the image of the Catholic priest. Time-critical considerations . Vienna: self-published 1970.

Secondary literature

  • Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Vienna: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei 1951, p. 157.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Kosnetter in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ Erika Weinzierl : Ecclesia Semper Reformanda. Contributions to Austrian church history in the 19th and 20th centuries . Reprint of Weinzierl's works on her sixtieth birthday. Vienna / Salzburg: Geyer Edition 1985, p. 371.
  3. ↑ Helmuth Vetter: The Catholic-theological faculty . In: Gernot Heiss, Siegfried Mattl, Sebastian Meissl, Edith Saurer, Karl Stuhlpfarrer (Ed.): Willing Science. The University of Vienna 1938-1945 (= Austrian texts on social criticism 43). Vienna: Publishing House for Social Criticism 1989, pp. 190 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kosnetter, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1980
Place of death Vienna