Josef Casper

Josef Casper (born May 2, 1906 in Bendorf ; † October 26, 1951 in St. Florian ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian , philosopher , orientalist and Eastern Church expert .

Casper studied from 1926 Catholic theology in Salzburg, Bonn and Vienna and in 1931 for Dr. phil. and in 1935 Dr. theol. PhD. The Pallottines , which he had joined in 1926, he had to leave in 1932 for health reasons. From 1935 he worked for various publishing houses in Vienna and as a close associate of the liturgist Pius Parsch in Klosterneuburg. As a consultant in the pastoral office of the Archdiocese of Vienna from 1939 to 1948, Karl Rahner was temporarily his colleague. In 1943 he converted from the Latin to the Byzantine rite, was ordained a priest in 1944 and worked part-time as a pastor in the Greek Catholic parish of St. Barbara in Vienna. In 1946 he qualified as a lecturer in the history and liturgy of the Christian East . In June 1949 he was appointed professor of fundamental theology and the history of religion at the philosophical and theological training institute of the Augustinian Canons in St. Florian Monastery , and died two years later of a heart condition.

literature

• Joachim Kittel:  CASPER, Josef. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 256-267.