Joseph Schnitzer

This article deals with the theologian Joseph Schnitzer. For other people see Josef Schnitzer .

The grave of Joseph Schnitzer in the Lauingen cemetery.

Joseph Schnitzer (born June 15, 1859 in Lauingen , Swabia, † December 2, 1939 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian who was suspended as a modernist in 1908.

His main interest was Hieronymus Savonarola , whose sermons and writings he also translated into German (1928) and on whom he published his main four-volume work.

Fonts

• Berengar of Tours , his life and teaching. A contribution to the doctrine of the Lord's Supper in the early Middle Ages. Stahl, Munich 1890.
• The Gesta Romanae Ecclesiae of Cardinal Beno and other pamphlets of the schismatic cardinals against Gregory VII. Buchner, Bamberg 1892 ( digitized ).
• Catholic marriage law. Taking into account the state regulations in force in the German Reich, Austria, Switzerland and in the area of ​​the Civil Code. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898.
• Sources and research on the history of Savonarola.
  • Volume 1: Bartolomei Redditi and Tomaso Ginori. Lentner, Munich 1902 (publications from the Church History Seminar in Munich).
  • Volume 2: Savonarola and the Trial by Fire. A source-critical investigation. Lentner, Munich 1904 (publications from the Church History Seminar in Munich).
  • Volume 3: Bartolomeo Cerretani. Lentner, Munich 1904 (publications from the Church History Seminar in Munich).
  • Volume 4: Savonarola based on the notes of the Florentine artist Piero Parenti. Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1910.
• Did Jesus found the papacy? An investigation into the history of dogma. Lampart, Augsburg 1910 ( digitized version ).
• Borromeo Encyclical and Modernism. Lecture… in the Anti-Ultramontane Reich Association on November 21, 1910 in the Architectural House in Berlin. Frankfurter Neuer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1911 ( digitized version ) of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
• Catholic modernism. Protestant font distribution, Berlin-Schöneberg 1912 ( digitized version ).
• Savonarola in dispute with his order and his monastery. Lehmann, Munich 1914.
• Savonarola. A cultural image from the time of the Renaissance. Reinhardt, Munich 1924 ( digitized version ).
  • Volume 1: Life
  • Volume 2: The pursuit
• Peter Delfin, General of the Camaldolese Order (1444–1525). A contribution to the history of the church reform of Alexander VI. and Savonarolas. Reinhardt, Munich 1926 ( digitized version ).
• Hieronymus Savonarola. Selection from his writings and sermons. Diederichs, Jena 1928.
• The death of Alexander VI. A source-critical investigation. Reinhardt, Munich 1929.
• The religious-psychological basis of cremation. Self-published by the Lucerne Cremation Cooperative, Lucerne 1933 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Edward Armstrong: "Savonarola based on the notes of the Florentine artist Piero Parenti" by Joseph Schnitzer. Review in: The English Historical Review . Vol. 27 (1912), No. 106, pp. 351-353, doi: 10.1093 / ehr / XXVII.CVI.351 .
• Friedrich Heiler : Joseph Schnitzer. A pioneer of German reform Catholicism (1859–1939). Reinhardt, Munich 1939.
• Raimund Lachner :  Joseph Schnitzer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 582-588.
• Manfred Weitlauff :  Schnitzer, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 331 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Manfred Weitlauff: The "Fall" of the Augsburg diocesan priest and Munich theology professor Joseph Schnitzer (1859–1939). In memory of the anti-modernist decrees of Pope Pius X a hundred years ago. Publishing house of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89870-699-5 .
• Gregor Klapczynski: Catholic Historicism? On historical thinking in the German-speaking church history around 1900. Heinrich Schrörs - Albert Ehrhard - Joseph Schnitzer (= Munich Church History Studies. NF, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023426-0 .

See also

• List of Catholic theologians who have had their teaching license revoked

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Schnitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joseph Schnitzer's estate in the Bavarian State Library