Josef Theodor Rath

Josef Theodor Rath CSSp (born February 4, 1900 in Rees ; † February 9, 1993 in Dormagen ) was a German clergyman.

Life

He grew up in Oberhausen . In 1915 he joined the Spiritans as a student to become a missionary. After his ordination on April 24, 1927, he was employed as a teacher of Greek, history and German at the Spiritaner high schools in Knechtsteden and Menden . In 1939 he was appointed provincial secretary and took care of foreign soldiers suffering from disease in Cologne- Hohenlind as a paramedic. After the Second World War, he taught future missionaries church history and missiology as a lecturer at the Knechtsteden School of Philosophy and Theology. After the Knechtstedener seminary was dissolved in 1967, he intensified the writing he had begun in 1928. In the parish of Straberg , where he had been active since 1955, he was pastor from 1975 to 1980.

Fonts (selection)

• The slave servant. Jacob Desiderius Laval , the Apostle of Mauritius . Donauwoerth 1949, OCLC 252800453 .
• The Knechtstedener Province 1895–1948. On the history of the German Province of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit . Knechtsteden 1973, OCLC 67201761 .
• Father Libermann CSSp. A Life for Africa 1802–1852 . Knechtsteden 1980, OCLC 314775467 .
• History of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Father Libermann's heirs 1852-1896 . Knechtsteden 1982, OCLC 314775551 .

Web links

• Death note ( Memento from February 26, 2020 in the Internet Archive )