Joseph Lortz

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Joseph (Adam) Lortz (born December 13, 1887 in Grevenmacher , Luxembourg ; † February 21, 1975 in Luxembourg (city) ) was a Roman Catholic church historian . He was considered a recognized Reformation researcher and ecumenist.

Life

Joseph Lortz, the second youngest of seven children, studied philosophy and theology from 1907 to 1911 in Rome and from 1911 to 1913 at the University of Freiburg / Üechtland . In 1913 he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Luxembourg . From 1913 to 1923 he lived in Bonn, where the church and Reformation historians Heinrich Schrörs (1852-1928), Joseph Greving and Albert Ehrhard influenced his further career. In 1917 he became scientific secretary to the editorial board of the Corpus Catholicorum .

In 1920 he received his doctorate at the University of Bonn , and in 1923 he completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg . He then worked as a private lecturer at Sebastian Merkle's chair . At the same time he was a student chaplain in Würzburg. In 1929, he received a call to a professorship at the State Academy Braunsberg ( Lyceum Hosianum ) in East Prussia. After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists, he published the treatise Catholic Access to National Socialism in 1933 , in which he affirmed the essential basic principles of National Socialism. In 1935 he changed to the chair for general church history, taking mission history into account, at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Lortz, who was a member of the NSDAP , left the party in 1938.

In the post-war period he taught at the University of Mainz from 1950 until his death in 1975 , and he was director of the Institute for European History in Mainz in the Department of Western Religious History.

He was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Teutonia in Freiburg / Üechtland in the CV .

Lortz has written various works on understanding the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation . The most famous work was the work Die Reformation in Deutschland .

Well-known Lortz students are Erwin Iserloh , Peter Manns , Karl Pellens , Alex Schröer .

Fonts

As an author:

  • History of the Church from the perspective of the history of ideas. A basic interpretation of the Christian past. Aschendorff, Münster 1933 (22/23 edition in 2 volumes 1965)
  • The Reformation. Theses as a handout for ecumenical discussions. Kyrios, Meitingen near Augsburg [around 1946].
  • The Reformation as a Religious Concern today. Four lectures in the service of the Una Sancta. Paulinus, Trier 1948.
  • The Reformation in Germany. 2 volumes. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1939/40 (6th edition 1982; translated into Spanish 1963, English 1968, French 1970, Italian 1979).
  • How did the Reformation come about? A presentation. Johannes, Einsiedeln 1950 (4th edition 1963).
  • with Erwin Iserloh : Brief Reformation History. Causes, course, effect. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1969 (2nd edition 1971).

As editor:

  • Bernhard von Clairvaux, monk and mystic. International Bernhard Congress, Mainz 1953. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1955 (also introduction).
  • Europe and Christianity. Three lectures. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1959 (lectures by Walther von Loewenich , Fedor Stepun and Joseph Lortz).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Lautenschläger:  Lortz, Joseph Adam. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 241-244.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 381.
  3. ↑ Heinz Schreckenberger: Education, lifeworld a. War effort d. German youth under Hitler. Notes on the literature. , LIT, Münster 2001, p. 182 f.


personal data
SURNAME Lortz, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lortz, Joseph Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevenmacher
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1975
Place of death Luxembourg City