Justus Knecht

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Friedrich Justus Knecht (born October 7, 1839 in Bruchsal , † January 31, 1921 in Karlsruhe ) was a German Catholic theologian , writer and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg .

Life

Justus Knecht was the fourth of seven children of Bruchsal master tailor Heinrich Ludwig Knecht and Catharina born. Schmer was born in Bruchsal.

The Evangelical baptized Friedrich Justus Knecht joined in 1855 along with his father and the then surviving three siblings on the mother's request to Catholicism. From 1856 he attended the Rastatt Lyceum . After high school and study of Catholic theology in Freiburg he received in the August 5, 1862 St. Peter the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

From 1862 to 1864 he worked as vicar in Durmersheim , Rastatt and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1863 he was also a repetitionist at the boys' seminar and religion teacher at the higher citizen school in Freiburg.

He came to Emmendingen in 1864 as curate administrator and was given a pastor's post there in 1866. From 1869 to 1871 Knecht was beneficiary administrator in Gengenbach , in 1871 parish administrator in Seelbach and finally from 1871 to 1877 pastor in Reichenbach / Lahr . During this time he was appointed archbishop's school inspector (1874) and intervened in the conflict between church and state in the Kulturkampf . Among other things, he took a stand against the expansion of state supervision twice at the German Catholic Days. From 1877 to 1879 was Justus Knecht parish administrator in Erlach and his doctorate in 1878 in Tübingen for a doctor of theology . In the years from 1879 to 1882 he was pastor in Schuttertal . In 1881 Knecht was made an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau , to which he was very connected throughout his life. In 1882 Archbishop Johann Baptist Orbin appointed him to his cathedral chapter and entrusted him with the special responsibility for schools and religious instruction in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In the same year Justus Knecht wrote the “Practical Commentary on Biblical History”, which was in use for a whole generation in the German-speaking area. The anti-Jewish conception of salvation history represented therein is today considered a negative example of Catholic teaching.

This was followed by the publication of the Biblical History for the lower school years of the Catholic elementary school . This textbook was extremely popular in its day and has been translated into a total of 20 languages. Finally, in 1907, his Biblical Story for School and Home was published.

On February 4, 1894 Knecht was appointed titular bishop of Neve and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg. He received the episcopal ordination on April 4th of the same year by Archbishop Christian Roos . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Mainz , Paul Leopold Haffner , and Auxiliary Bishop Charles Marbach from Strasbourg . He was appointed papal assistant to the throne in 1903.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday on October 2, 1919, the Bruchsal Citizens' Committee granted him honorary citizenship for his services as a religious educator and his literary activities . Justus Knecht died on January 31, 1921 in Karlsruhe at the age of 81. He was buried in the northern ambulatory of the Freiburg Minster .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Lohmann:  Justus Knecht. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 122-124.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ^ Friedrich Justus Knecht in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ M. Schlitz: Kinship Book of the City of Bruchsal (draft). Comment: In 1855 Julius signed as Friedrich Knecht
    children of Heinrich Ludwig Knecht * 1804 and Catharina Schmer * 1802:
    1st Lorenz Engelbert * 1829-1830, 2nd Margaretha * 1831-1834, 3rd Maria * 1833-1833, 4th Friedrich Justus * 1839-1921, 5th Maria * around 1842, 6th Georg * around 1846, 7th Elisabeth * around 1849
  4. ↑ Das Vaterland (newspaper) of Saturday, August 13, 1898 , Vienna, page 5
  5. ↑ Friedrich Justus Knecht: Practical Commentary on Biblical History with instructions on how to give biblical history lessons and a concordance of Biblical history and the Catechism Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1913, pp. 759f.
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knecht, Friedrich Justus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, writer and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1921
Place of death Karlsruhe