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Johannes Quasten (born May 3, 1900 in Homberg , † March 10, 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Catholic theologian and patrologist .

Life

Johannes Quasten studied Catholic theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Here he joined the Catholic student union WKSt.V. in 1922 . Unitas Frisia at. In 1926 he was ordained a priest . In 1927 he started working with Franz Joseph Dölger in Münster with a thesis on “Music a. Singing in the Cults of Pagan Antiquity and Early Christian Times ”. Further studies followed in the years 1927–1929 in Rome at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana ; at the same time he was active as a chaplain at Campo Santo Teutonico . He received a scholarship from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft for the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and took part in international excavations with the Görres Society . In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Münster with Adolf Rücker with the text “Poimen Soter. The Good Shepherd in early Christian funeral liturgy and funerary art ”.

After confrontations with the National Socialist regime and withdrawal of the venia legendi , he moved to Rome. Through the mediation of Clemens August Graf von Galen and through the intercession of Cardinals Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII ) and Giovanni Mercati , he was appointed associate professor in 1938 and full professor in 1941 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC from 1945 to 1949 he dean of the theological faculty, since 1949 senator of the university. With his retirement in 1970 he became an honorary professor at Kath.-Theol. Faculty of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau appointed.

Quasten is the author of the four-volume work Patrology (1950–1986) on the theological and dogma-historical development, which became a standard work in the English-speaking world.

Johannes Tassels Award

At the Catholic University of America , Washington, DC there is the "Johannes Tassel Award".

Awards and honors (selection)

  • 1948 Corresponding member of the Abt-Herwegen Institute for Liturgical Research (Maria Laach)
  • 1951 member of the founding commission of the Patristic Conference Oxford University
  • 1960 Cardinal Spellman Award from the Catholic Theological Association of America for services to theology
  • 1960 Appointment as a member of the '' Pontificia Commissio de sacra Liturgia praeparatoria Concilii Vaticani II '' by Pope John XXIII.
  • 1960 member of the Oxford Historical Society
  • 1964 Appointment as '' Consultor Consilii ad exsequendam Constitutionem de sacra Liturgia '' by Pope Paul VI.
  • 1978 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 2 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1996, p. 291 .
personal data
SURNAME Tassels, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and patrologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1987
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau