Johannes Vincke

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Johannes Vincke (born May 11, 1892 in Gretesch near Osnabrück , † March 3, 1975 in Hollage ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian . The focus of his work was canon law and church history , especially Spain.

Life and academic career

Johannes Vincke was born on the Vinckenhofe in Gretesch, Osnabrück district, as the third of nine children. After completing elementary school in Belm and graduating from high school in 1912 at the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück , he studied theology in Münster and Freiburg from 1912 to 1916 . In 1912 he became a member of the Catholic fraternity Unitas Winfridia. He was ordained a priest in 1917. Before he studied theology, history, law and political science in Freiburg from 1926 to 1928, he worked as a pastor. In 1927 the doctorate to Dr. phil. and Dr. theol. and in 1928 Dr. rer. pole. From 1928 to 1930 he worked at the Royal Archives of Aragon in Barcelona . Following his return to Freiburg, he completed his habilitation in 1930 on the history of church law and the relationship between church and state. This was followed by a stay at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1932 to 1934 , an extraordinary professorship for canon law in Freiburg in 1937 and a substitute for canon law at the Braunsberg State Academy in East Prussia from 1939 to 1944 . Since the summer semester of 1944 he has been the chair for church history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , to which he was appointed as a full professor in 1946 and where he taught until his retirement in 1960; 1951/52 he was rector of the university.

As part of the Vincke House Inscription Circle , he was involved in researching house inscriptions in Lower Saxony .

Tasks at the University of Freiburg in addition to his teaching activities

  • 1945–60: Member of the Academic Building Commission
  • from 1949: Editor of the Freiburg Theological Studies
  • from 1949: Administrator of the Gfrörer Foundation
  • from 1952: Member of the Senate Commission for the Studium Generale, especially as a speaker for the student communities and temporarily for the Dies Universitatis
  • from 1952: Board member in the Association of Friends of the University of Freiburg
  • from 1952: Chairman of the Academic Literature Commission

Appointments and Awards

The Haupt- und Realschule (Oberschule) in Belm is named after him (Johannes-Vincke-Schule).

Publications (selection)

  • State and Church in Catalonia and Aragon during the Middle Ages. Munster 1931.
  • Ethnicity and Law. Presented from a canonical and folkloric perspective. Düsseldorf 1937.
  • Letters to the Pisan Council. Bonn 1940.
  • On the prehistory of the Spanish Inquisition: the Inquisition in Aragon, Catalonia, Mallorca and Valencia during the 13th and 14th centuries. Bonn 1941.
  • Papers to the Council of Pisan: a struggle for public opinion. Bonn 1942.
  • The higher education policy of the Aragonese Crown in the Middle Ages. Braunsberg 1942.
  • The Crown of Aragon and the great occidental schism. Gumbinnen 1944.
  • The encounter between Germans and Spaniards in the 14th century. Freiburg 1951.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 366 .
  2. ^ A b Johannes Vincke: Appointments and Awards , website of the Johannes-Vincke-Schule (Belm), accessed on November 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vincke, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincke, Johannes Bernhard Dionysius Vincke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gretesch
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1975
Place of death Hollage