Joseph Alois Rink
Joseph Alois Rink (born March 12, 1756 in Weißenstein ; † March 19, 1825 in Donzdorf ) was a historian and Catholic theological writer.
Life
The son of the Weißenstein organist and schoolmaster Joseph Rink attended the Neresheim Benedictine high school . He then studied Catholic theology at the Bavarian State University of Ingolstadt. In 1780 he was ordained a priest after attending the Konstanz seminary in Meersburg .
Rink, whose training had been financed by the barons of Rechberg (the local lords of Weißenstein), returned home and after a short time as a Rechberg private tutor in 1781 was entrusted with the newly created office of Rechberg “state school director”. In 1783 he became pastor on the Hohenrechberg, 1785 in Weißenstein, 1790 in Böhmenkirch. A year later he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ingolstadt. From 1806 until his death Rink was pastor in Donzdorf, and from 1815 also dean of the Geislingen chapter.
Appreciation
Rink was a typical representative of the Church Enlightenment. In his obituary, the evangelical journalist Johann Gottfried Pahl counted him among the men who "counteracted obscurantism and ultramontanism and promoted the cause of light and spiritual freedom" on the Catholic side. In his writings on church politics, Rink pleaded, among other things, for the mother tongue in worship and the abolition of celibacy.
As an opponent of the baroque pilgrimage, he caused the Kolomanskapelle near Böhmenkirch to be demolished (1799) and the popular Bernhardus pilgrimage to be repealed (1806).
Rink's main historical work is the unprinted "Family History of the Swabian Dynasts of Rechberg and Red Lions" (dated 1806, handwritten in several versions in the Rechberg archive in Donzdorf, where Rink's scientific estate is also located).
A by-product of this multi-volume work was the brief history of Gmünd in 1802.
literature
- Heribert Hummel: Joseph Alois Rink. A forgotten Swabian homeland researcher . In: Schwäbische Heimat 31, 1980, pp. 193–201 (with bibliography) online (PDF; 1.2 MB) .
- Klaus Graf : Afterword . In: Joseph Alois Rink: Brief history and description of the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd . Reprint of the Schwäbisch Gmünd 1802 edition. Stiegele, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1982, ISBN 3-923718-00-4 , pp. 100-114, online .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rink, Joseph Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Historian and Catholic theological writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißenstein (Lauterstein) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1825 |
| Place of death | Donzdorf |