Carl Adolph Cornelius

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Carl Adolf Wenzeslaus Cornelius , from 1892 by Cornelius , (born March 12, 1819 in Würzburg , † February 10, 1903 in Munich ) was a German historian and church historian .

Life

Carl Adolf Cornelius was a son of the actor couple Carl (1793–1843) and Friederike Cornelius, geb. Schwadtke (1789-1867). The composer Peter Cornelius (1824–1874) and the writer Auguste Cornelius (1826–1891) were his siblings.

Cornelius studied in Bonn and Berlin with Leopold von Ranke, among others . He then worked as a teacher at the grammar schools in Emmerich and Koblenz , and from 1846 to 1849 at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg . In 1848/49 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . Cornelius belonged to the Casino and Pariser Hof factions .

First he worked as a scientist after 1849 without an official teaching position. In 1851 he completed his habilitation at the Münster Academy . In 1852 he became a lecturer in history in Breslau . In 1854 he was appointed professor at the University of Bonn and in 1856 at the University of Munich , where he received the so-called "Catholic professorship", although he was by no means an ultramontan historian. During this time he was working on a history of the Anabaptist Empire in Munster . Cornelius has the merit of having critically opened up the tradition of Anabaptism, but also of humanism , in Münster .

Politically, he was initially set up with Greater German , but became an admirer of Otto von Bismarck during the period of unification . Cornelius supported the positions of Ignaz von Döllinger . He advocated reforms in the Catholic Church and rejected the infallibility dogma . Cornelius was one of the proponents of the Old Catholic Church and became a member.

From 1860 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and was a member of its historical commission . Cornelius took over the management of the publication of the Wittelsbach correspondence. This was a collection of files from the Bavarian rulers of the 16th and 17th centuries. In the 1870s he mainly worked on John Calvin . From 1890 to 1898 he was secretary of the academy's philosophical and historical class, succeeding Wilhelm von Giesebrecht . In 1892 he received the Maximilian Order and the associated personal title of nobility (from Cornelius). From 1897 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In 1857 he married Elisabeth Simrock (1829–1907), daughter of the music publisher Peter Simrock (1792–1869) in Bonn. The couple had two sons, Carl Theodor Cornelius (1860–1878) died while he was still in high school, and Hans Cornelius (1863–1947) became a philosopher.

Fonts (selection)

  • Reports of eyewitnesses about the Munsterische Wiedertäuferreich (1853)
  • History of the Munster revolt of the Anabaptists (2 volumes, 1855–60)
  • The establishment of the Calvinist church constitution in Geneva (1892)
  • The first years of Calvin's Church 1541–1546 (1896)
  • Historical work, mainly during the Reformation period (1899)

literature

  • Moriz Ritter : Karl Adolf Cornelius . In: Research on the history of Bavaria 12, 1904, pp. 1–17.
  • Cornelius, Carl Adolph , in: Nordisk familjebok: KONVERSATIONSLEXIKON OCH REALENCYKLOPEDI. Project Runeberg. 1906. p. 738
  • Cornelius, Carl Adolf (1819–1903): Estate. Manuscripts, letters from and to Cornelius, notebooks, hand copies, photos. Reading room of the Department of Manuscripts and Old Prints, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
  • Bernhard Maria Rosenberg, Dr. Ernst Manfred Wermter (editor): Contributions to the history of political life in Warmia during the Vormärz and the 1848 revolution , in: Journal for the history and antiquity of Warmia. 31/32. Historical Association for Warmia V., Münster 1968.
  • Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian MPs in Frankfurt 1848/49. Biographical contributions to the history of political life in East Prussia. Grote, Berlin / Cologne 1970, pp. 39–44.
  • Ewald Kessler: From the beginnings of the German old Catholic diocese: A draft for a synodal and community order by Theodor Stumpf. Eastern Church: Universal Church, Office and Testimony of Truth , in: International Church Journal. New episode of the Revue internationale de théologie. ETH Zurich. P. 46.
  • Walter Goetz :  Cornelius, Carl Adolf Wenzeslaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 363 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Adolph Cornelius  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Karl Adolf Cornelius at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Carl Adolf Wenzeslaus by Cornelius. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Annual report of the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1877/78: 3rd high school class
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius, Carl Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornelius, Carl Adolf Wenzeslaus (full name); Cornelius, Carl Adolph von; Cornelius, Karl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1903
Place of death Munich