Joseph Greving

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Joseph (Josef) Greving (born December 24, 1868 in Aachen ; † May 6, 1919 in Bonn ) was a German Catholic theologian , church historian and university professor .

Life

The son of the teacher at St. Peter in Aachen, Bernhard Greving (1831-1904), and Josephine Hackert studied Catholic theology at the universities of Bonn and Munich after graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen . During his studies he became a member of the KDStV Novesia Bonn in the CV in 1887 . In Munich he obtained his doctorate in 1893 under Aloys Knöpfler. phil. with a dissertation on Paul von Bernried's vita about Gregory VII. After his subsequent ordination, Greving worked as a chaplain, first in Essen and then in Cologne. From 1899 he devoted himself more to science and took a position as a private lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he also habilitated a little later with the church historian Heinrich Schroers with a paper on the Cologne Beguines .

In 1909 Greving was appointed full professor for church history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and in 1917, after Heinrich Schroers retired, he returned to the University of Bonn in the same position.

In addition to his teaching activities, inspired by Ludwig von Pastor , he dealt in particular with research on the history of the Reformation and published textbooks on, among other things, Johann Eck as well as at the suggestion of Sebastian Merkle and the history of the German Reformation as a reservoir for research into the history of the Reformation: (1517-55) .

His main work in 1919 was the publication of the Corpus Catholicorum series . Works by Catholic writers in the age of religious schism , which was planned as a counterpart to the book series Corpus Reformatorum, and which was created with the collaboration of Joseph Lortz . For this he wrote the first volume Johannes Eck. Defensio contra amarulentas D. Andreae Bodenstein Carolstatini invectiones (1518) .

As a writer and as a teacher, Greving played a key role in softening the contrasts in the history of the Reformation that had intensified since the publication of the Luther biographies by Friedrich Heinrich Suso Denifle and Hartmann Grisar . From 1910 to 1918 Greving was a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Greving died in Bonn in 1919, but was then buried in his parents' family grave in Aachen's Ostfriedhof .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pauls von Bernried Vita Gregorii VII .: a contribution to the knowledge of the sources and views from the time of the Gregorian church dispute. , Schöningh, Münster (Westphalia), 1893.
  • Housing and ownership conditions of the individual population classes in the Cologne parish of St. Kolumba from the 13th to the 16th century. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . , Vol. 78, 1904
  • History of the German Reformation: (1517–55). Hauptmann publishing house, Bonn 1904.
  • Johann Eck as a young scholar. A literary u. Dogma-historical study of his Chrysopassus praedestinationis from 1514 , Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1906.
  • Johann Eck's parish book for Our Lady in Ingolstadt. A contribution to the knowledge of the parish church conditions in the 16th century. , Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1908.
  • Corpus Catholicorum. Works of Catholic writers in the age of religious schism. Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1919 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 64.
  2. ^ Josef Greving on the website of the Historical Commission Westphalia
personal data
SURNAME Greving, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greving, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, church historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1919
Place of death Bonn