Johannes Meier (theologian)

Johannes Meier (born May 31, 1948 in Neubeckum ) is a professor emeritus for Middle and Modern Church History at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

Life

After graduating from high school in Warendorf in 1966, Meier studied Catholic theology and basic historical sciences from 1967 to 1972 in Paderborn, Würzburg, Chur / Switzerland and Freiburg i.Br. A fellow of the studienstiftung he was in 1975 at the University of Würzburg Dr. theol. PhD. In 1976 he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt in Paderborn.

After vicariates in Bielefeld and Hagen / Westphalia, he went to Mexico City in 1980 for postgraduate studies in Latin American church history. In 1982/83 archive research followed in Seville / Spain. Since 1984 he has been a research assistant at the Department of Mission Studies at the University of Würzburg, where he qualified as a professor in 1989 and received the venia legendi for the subject "Church History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times". In 1990 he was appointed private lecturer in Würzburg and held a teaching position at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bamberg , and in 1991 a guest lecturer at the Faculdade de Teología "Nossa Senhora da Assunção" in São Paulo / Brazil.

In 1992 Johannes Meier was appointed to the chair for church history of the Middle Ages and modern times at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1996 he was offered a position at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , which he turned down. In 1997 he accepted a position at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His main areas of research are the church history of the early modern period, the history of the religious orders, especially the Premonstratensian and Jesuits , the history of Christianity outside Europe, especially the church history of Latin America, and the ecclesiastical history of Westphalia. So far he has carried out 40 study and research trips to almost all countries in Latin America. From 1996 to 2006 he was an advisory member of the sub-commission for Latin America of the German Bishops' Conference and from 2001 to 2012 spokesman for the "Interdisciplinary Working Group Latin America" ​​at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia (since 1996) and is a member of the presidium of the working group "Praemonstratensia" in the German-speaking area (since 2002) as well as the board of "Jesuitica" eV, an association for research into the history of the Jesuit order. He is a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (since 2003) and member of the board of trustees "Stipendienwerk Latin America-Germany" eV, Tübingen / Osnabrück (since 2004). He founded the "Freundeskreis Propstei Clarholz" eV in 1993/96, was its first chairman (1996-2005) and has been its Scientific Advisory Board ever since.

Works (selection)

• The priestly service according to Johannes Gropper (1503–1559). The contribution of a German theologian to the renewal of the priestly image within the framework of a pre-Identian reform concept for church practice (= Reformation history studies and texts 113), Aschendorff, Münster 1977.
• Clarholtensis Ecclesia. Research on the history of the Premonstratensians in Clarholz and Lette (1133–1803) (= studies and sources on Westphalian history 21), Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1983, ISBN 3-87088-345-6 .
• Witness of a liberating church: Bartolomé de Las Casas , Leutesdorf 1988.
• The Beginnings of the Church in the Caribbean Islands. The history of the dioceses of Santo Domingo, Concepción de la Vega, San Juan de Puerto Rico and Santiago de Cuba from their creation (1511/22) to the middle of the 17th century (= New Journal of Mission Studies , Supplementa XXXVIII), Immensee / Switzerland 1991.
• The diocese of Essen. Christian life on the Lenne and Ruhr over the course of twelve centuries .
  • Issue 1: From the first messengers of faith to the great secularization (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe 1998).
  • Booklet 2: From the end of the Reich Church to the settlement of the Kulturkampf (ibid. 2001).
  • Volume 3: From the first social encyclical “Rerum Novarum” to the second millennium (Ibid. 2002).
• The poor first! 12 life pictures of Latin American bishops . With the collaboration of Stefan Herbst, Mainz 1999.
• "... usque ad ultimum terrae". The Jesuits and the Transcontinental Expansion of Christianity 1540–1773: Studies on the History of Christianity outside Europe (Asia, Africa, Latin America) / Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World, Vol. 3 / Vol. 3, Göttingen 2000.
• With Jochen Ossenbrink: Life under the crook. The parishes of Clarholz, Lette and Beelen in the 18th century , publishing house for regional history. Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-503-2 .
• Mission - conquest - encounter. Franz Xaver, the Society of Jesus and the Catholic World Church in the Baroque Age (= Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) / Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World, Vol. 8 / Vol. 8), Wiesbaden 2005.
• "Totus mundus nostra fit habitatio." Jesuits from the German-speaking area in Portuguese and Spanish America (= Academy of Sciences and Literature, treatises of the humanities and social sciences class, year 2007, no. 2), Mainz / Stuttgart 2007.
• With Veit Straßner: Church and Catholicism since 1945 , edited by Erwin Gatz , Volume 6: Latin America and the Caribbean , Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2009.
• Monasteries and landscape. The spatial heritage of the orders . Publication series of the Westphalian Heimatbund, Münster 2010.
• Jesuits from Central Europe in Portuguese and Spanish America. A bio-bibliographical handbook with an overview of the non-European work of the Society of Jesus in the early modern period .
  • Volume 1: Brazil (1618-1760) . Edited by Fernando Amado Aymoré, Aschendorff, Münster 2005.
  • Volume 2: Chile (1618-1771) . Edited by Michael Müller, Aschendorff, Münster 2011.
  • Volume 3: New Granada (1618-1771) . Edited by Christoph Nebgen , Aschendorff, Münster 2008.
  • Volume 5: Peru (1617-1768) . Edited by Uwe Glüsenkamp, ​​Aschendorff, Münster 2013.
• With Giancarlo Collet : History of the Saxon Franciscan Province from its foundation to the beginning of the 21st century. Volume 4: Missions , Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2013.
• Church building and religious life, pastoral care, education and piety. Contributions to the history of Christianity in Westphalia and neighboring landscapes , ed. by Christoph Nebgen and Ursula Olchewski (= Westfalica Sacra Volume 18), Aschendorff, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-15497-7 .
• Raise your voice. Studies on the Church History of Latin America and the Caribbean , ed. by Anngret Langenhorst, Christoph Nebgen and Veit Straßner (= Studies on the Non-European History of Christianity, Volume 30), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-447-11037-2 .
• To the edges of the world: Paths of Catholicism in the Age of Reformation and the Baroque , Aschendorff, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-13256-2 .
• A total of over 200 scientific publications; Translations into Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French, Czech and Chinese.

Web links

• University of Mainz: Johannes Meier
• Homepage of the Freundeskreis Propstei Clarholz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Johannes Meier at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 27, 2017.