Josef Scheuber

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Josef Scheuber (born February 22, 1881 in Wolfenschiessen ; † April 27, 1961 in Chur ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator .

Life

Josef Scheuber was the son of Joachim Scheuber, a mountain farmer and his wife Ursula, nee. Muheim. He attended the Stans grammar school and the Einsiedeln monastery grammar school and then went to the Chur seminary (today: Chur Theological University ); He was ordained a priest in 1904. From 1905 to 1906 he studied art history in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1908 at the University of Zurich .

After completing his studies, he came to the College of Maria Hilf in Schwyz as a professor and prefect of studies in 1906 , where he was rector of the college from 1932 to 1941. From 1941 to 1960 he was the regens of the seminary in Chur.

Act

As a representative of the client, he was the client and had a major impact on the new building of the Maria Hilf college in Schwyz after the school grounds fell victim to a fire on April 3, 1910.

He was also the author of numerous art historical and religious writings and articles, including in the Schweizer Rundschau .

Honors

In 1954 he became an Apostolic Protonotary .

Fonts (selection)

  • The medieval choir stalls in Switzerland . Strasbourg Heitz 1910.
  • Baroque churches in Switzerland . 1914.
  • Church and Reformation: flourishing Catholic life in the 16th and 17th centuries . Einsiedeln / Switzerland: Benziger, 1917.
  • John, the love disciple of Jesus . Freiburg (Switzerland) Kanisius-Verlag 1921.
  • Our Lord's Way of the Cross in Art . Munich: Society for Christian Art, 1923.
  • Into the Orient: Travel Memories . Schwyz: Maria Hilf, 1927.
  • Gifted age: from sense and Blessing of his old age . Lucerne: Rex-Verlag 1946.

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