Joseph Schröder

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people with a similar name, see Josef Schröder .

Epitaph

Peter Joseph Schröder (born April 16, 1849 in Beeck near Geilenkirchen , † September 5, 1903 in Elberfeld ) was a German Catholic theology professor in Liège , Washington, DC and Münster .

Life

Schröder first studied at the Jesuit University Gregoriana (Dr. phil; Dr. theol .; ordination in Rome May 18, 1873). On August 1, 1874 he became a lecturer at the Liège seminary and later professor of philosophy at the Episcopal Seminary St. Truiden / St. Trond (Liege).

In September 1888 he became a professor for dogmatics and moral theology at the seminary in Cologne .

In 1889 he took over the chair for dogmatics at the newly established Catholic University of America in Washington, DC In 1898 he gave up his Washington chair, received a professorship for dogmatic theology at the Prussian Academy in Münster and was the first rector of the newly established 1902/1903 University of Munster . In 1903 he was appointed professor of pastoral theology at the University of Strasbourg , but died suddenly of pneumonia in the same year. He was buried in his home parish in Würm .

Honors

In Schröder's birthplace Beeck near Geilenkirchen, the main street is now called "Prof.-Schröder-Straße".

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student union Saxonia Münster in the CV .

literature

• Herman H. Schwedt:  Schroeder, Peter Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 984-988.
• Herman H. Schwedt:  Schröder, Peter Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 567 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
	Rector of the University of Münster 1902–1903	Wilhelm Zopf