Joseph Bernhart

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Joseph Bernhart (born August 8, 1881 in Ursberg ; † February 21, 1969 in Türkheim ) was a Catholic theologian , religious scholar and publicist.

Joseph Bernhart. Signature 1936

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Memorial plaque to Joseph Bernhart in the Ursberg monastery

Bernhart was ordained a priest in 1904 and initially worked as a pastor. After he married Elisabeth Nieland in London in 1913, he worked as a freelance writer.

He dealt with important figures and testimonies of Catholic theology and worldview, asked questions about the hiddenness of God and the often tragic failure of the individual. His own life story was not ignored by him: the church forbidden marriage, which meant not only the task of the priesthood, but also an outsider position in the Catholic Church, which he always defended literarily. In September 1939, the marriage was rehabilitated on the ecclesiastical grace path; in January 1942, Bernhart's excommunication was lifted. His wife died in December 1943.

In the interwar period, Joseph Bernhart wrote frequently for the highlands . In 1939, Bernhart wrote the historical theological essay "Hodie" for the highlands . According to Konrad Ackermann , this essay, which was originally supposed to appear on Christmas 1939, led to the fact that that edition was banned and had to be pulped. Joseph Bernhart was banned from publishing in June 1941. He therefore had to withdraw from Munich to the country where he u. a. found refuge with Joseph-Ernst Fugger von Glött .

Honors

In 1949 Bernhart was accepted into the newly founded Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in 1950 into the Società di Cultura in Venice . In 1951 he was appointed honorary professor for the intellectual history of the Middle Ages by the University of Munich , in 1956 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1959 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Since 1961 he was an honorary citizen of Türkheim. The local Joseph-Bernhart-Gymnasium is named after him; in Krumbach there is the Joseph-Bernhart-Fachakademie für Sozialpädagogik. There are Joseph-Bernhart-Strasse in Ursberg, Thannhausen, Mindelheim and Türkheim.

Works

  • The Kaplan: Notes from a Life, Autobiographical Novel, (1919), newly ed. v. Georg Schwaiger (1986)
  • The philosophical mysticism of the Middle Ages from its ancient origins to the Renaissance (1922)
  • The Vatican as the Throne of the World (1930) (later editions under the title The Vatican as a World Power: History and Shape of the Papacy )
  • De profundis (1935)
  • as translator and publisher: Thomas von Aquino: Sum of theology. 3 volumes, Stuttgart 1935; 3rd edition ibid 1985.
  • Boniface, Apostle of the Germans (1950)
  • Chaos and Demony: From the Divine Shadows of Creation (1950)
  • Memory of the Dead (1951)
  • The Unmoured Creature: Reflections on the Beast (1961)
  • Gestalten und Gewalten: Essays, Lectures (1962)

Joseph Bernhart Society

The Joseph Bernhart Society, a registered association, was founded on March 2, 1974. The purpose of the association is to preserve the writer's life's work. The association is based in Türkheim.

literature

  • Manfred Lochbrunner: Hans Urs von Balthasar and his philosopher friends: five double portraits. Würzburg: Real 2005m ISBN 3-429-02740-3 ,
  • Klaus Arntz: The divine shadows of creation. Theological and ethical considerations following Joseph Bernhart (1881–1969). In: F. Sedlmeier, Th. Hausmanninger (Ed.): Inquire pacem. Contributions to a theology of peace (FS Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz OSB), Augsburg: St. Ulrich-Verlag 2004m ISBN 3-936484-43-0 , pp. 248-270.
  • Klaus Arntz: Melancholy and Ethics. A philosophical-theological examination of the limits of moral subject-being in the 20th century (= ratio fidei 11), Regensburg: Pustet 2003, ISBN 3-7917-1806-1 , pp. 41–84.
  • Rainer Bendel : The church image of Joseph Bernhart. St. Ottilien: EOS 1993m ISBN 3-88096-910-8 ,
  • Bernd J. Claret: Why is creation like this, why is it not different? An attempt at thinking about “the eschatological question” following Joseph Bernhart's historical theological reflections. Lindenberg: Josef Fink Verlag 2011, ISBN 3-89870-720-2 .
  • Lorenz Wachinger : Joseph Bernhart - border crosser between knowledge and belief. In: Voices of the Time . 226th Volume, 2008, Issue 7, pp. 488-490.
  • Manfred Weitlauff (Ed.): Joseph Bernhart: Recollections 1881–1930. 2 volumes. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1992m ISBN 3-87437-336-3 ,
  • Manfred Weitlauff:  Bernhart, Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 755-769.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Ackermann: The resistance of the monthly Hochland against National Socialism. Kösel, Munich 1965, p. 96 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhart, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, religious scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Ursberg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1969
Place of death Türkheim