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 .
literature
- Christoph Schmitt: Joseph Schäfers. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1538-1540.
Web links
- Schäfers, Joseph . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Information on Joseph Schäfers in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schäfers, Joseph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic theologian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzkotten |
DATE OF DEATH | before October 29, 1916 |
Place of death | Mosul , Tigris |