Josef Vital Kopp

Josef Vital Kopp (born November 1, 1906 in Beromünster / Canton of Lucerne ; † September 22, 1966 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss Catholic theologian , teacher and writer .

Life

Josef Vital Kopp was the son of a mayor . He studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1929 there to the doctor of theology. After attending a seminary in Solothurn , he was ordained a priest in 1931 and then worked as a youth pastor in Lucerne . In 1935 he took up a second course and studied classical philology at the universities in Friborg , Berlin and Heidelberg until 1938 . In 1939 he received his second doctorate. Since 1938 he was a teacher and then also rector at the cantonal middle school Willisau (Progymnasium); from 1945 to 1962 he taught religion and classical languages at the Cantonal School in Lucerne. The last years of his life were overshadowed by a leukemia disease.

In addition to his teaching activities , Josef Vital Kopp wrote novels , stories , essays and aphorisms . In his narrative works, he initially deals with ancient history and culture; his last, posthumously published novel Der Forstmeister is a coded criticism of the immobility of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church .

Josef Vital Kopp received a prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation in 1947 and 1951 and the Central Switzerland Literature Prize in 1962 .

Works

Authorship

• The doctrine of the state of St. Paulus , Innsbruck 1929
• The physical world view of early Greek poetry , Freiburg / Switzerland 1939
• Socrates dreams of Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1946
• Brutus , Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1950
• The beautiful Damaris , Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1954
• The whims of Pegasus , Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1958
• Origin and Future of Man , Lucerne [u. a.] 1961
• The sixth day , Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1961
• The doctor in the cosmic age , Lucerne [u. a.] 1964
• The daughter of Sions , Lucerne [u. a.] 1966
• The forester , Lucerne [u. a.] 1967
• Aphorisms , Lucerne [u. a.] 1972
• These last days of my life , Lucerne [u. a.] 1975
• The neighbor , Lucerne [u. a.] 1976
• Josef Vital Kopp - Legacy and Awakening , Lucerne 2006

Editing

• Death is good , Munich 1967

Translations

• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : The Divine Realm , Olten 1962

literature

• Karl Fehr:  Kopp, Josef Vital. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 569 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Fehr : Josef Vital Kopp , Lucerne [u. a.] 1968
• Daniel Schönbächler: Experience of Ambivalence , Bern 1975
• Joseph Bättig: Meinrad Inglin (1893–1971), Josef Vital Kopp (1906–1966) , Lucerne 1999
• Hartmut Lohmann:  Kopp, Joseph Vital. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 506-508.

Web links

• Author Lexicon
• Literature by and about Josef Vital Kopp in the catalog of the German National Library