Joseph Schäfers

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Joseph Schäfers

Joseph Schäfers (born January 17, 1878 in Salzkotten , † before October 29, 1916 in Mosul , Tigris ) was a Catholic theologian .

Life

After his ordination in 1903 he was a clergyman in the province of Saxony . The theological faculty of the diocese of Paderborn intended to appoint the multilingual theologian, who had two doctorates, to the chair of auxiliary biblical sciences and patrology at the beginning of the First World War . From 1916 he was a German pastor in Mosul, where he died of tropical fever that same year in the midst of the Armenians who had fled Turkey (see Genocide of the Armenians ). A street was named after him in his hometown of Salzkotten.

Works

  • An Ancient Syrian Anti-Markionist Declaration of Parables of the Lord ; published 1917
  • Gospel quotations in Ephrems the Syrian Commentary on the Pauline Scriptures ; ed. v. I. Sickenberger, 1917

and numerous contributions to the Patrologia orientalis .

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