Josef Rieber

Josef Rieber (born January 22, 1862 in Beschau , Bohemia , † December 4, 1934 in Prague ) was an Austrian priest , orientalist , canon lawyer and university professor in Prague.

Life

Josef Rieber was born in Petschau as the son of the clothing manufacturer Johann Rieber. He was studying Catholic theology in Prague when the German Karl Ferdinand University was spun off from Charles University . During his studies, he became a member of the KDStV Ferdinandea Prague in 1887 . He moved to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and finally to the Jesuit Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut .

1887 Dr. theol. and ordained a priest , he became parish adjunct in Seifen in 1888 and then at the theological faculty of Karl Ferdinand University. Josef Rieber completed his habilitation in 1892 and gave lectures on canon law , catechetics and school pedagogy . At the same time he was a religion teacher at the German teacher training institute in Prague. Since 1896 he taught the Hebrew language . In 1897 he received an associate professor for canon law and Semitic languages . He became associate (1898) and full professor (1901) for Old Testament Bible studies and Semitic languages .

In 1905/06 he was rector of the Karl Ferdinand University. Appointed papal house prelate , he was chairman of the German section of the diocesan court of the Archdiocese of Prague . Even after the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1919, he stayed in Prague. He died at the age of 75. He is the author of scientific studies, has received several awards, a. a. with the Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) (1908) and with the title Hofrat (1917).

Josef Rieber had the younger brother Alois Rieber , an academic sculptor in Prague.

Publications

• Old farmer recipes from the Karlovy Vary area. In: 3rd Annual Reports of the Scientific Association for Folklore and Linguistics. 1895.
• About flood legends and their relationship to the Semitic flood reports. In: Mainz Catholic. 1897.
• The blood revenge and the jus talionis in the Mosaic Law. 1901.
• The El Amarna tablets and their historical significance. 1903.
• On the recent Babel-Bible dispute. 1904. GoogleBooks
• The modern battle for the Bible. 1906.
• Theological professional studies at the university. 1906.

literature

• Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , pp. 415 and 416.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former regional district of Eger. Volume 2, Druckhaus Bayreuth Verlagsgesellschaft, Bayreuth 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , pp. 100 and 102.
• Šumava yearbook. 1936.
• Catholic Germany. 1936.
• The dead of 1934. In: Sudetendeutsches Jahrbuch. 1936
• The German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague under the reg. Franz Josef I. 1899.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV Vienna 1925, p. 540.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kosch: Rieber, Josef (DBE, GoogleBooks)
3. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)