Karl August Fink

Karl August Fink (born May 10, 1904 in Konstanz , † April 4, 1983 in Rottweil ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

Karl August Fink studied Catholic theology and medieval history at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and the Münster . In 1928 he was ordained a priest in Freiburg . Fink initially worked in pastoral care . In 1929 he was at Emil Göller (1874-1933) with a thesis on the position of the Constance diocese for Holy See in the age of the Avignon exile for Dr. theol. PhD . Then he was assistant to Paul Fridolin Kehr at the Prussian Historical Institute until 1936 . There he worked on the pontificate of Martin V for the Germanicum Repertory . In 1935 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg with a work on Martin V and Aragon. From 1932 to 1935 Karl August Fink was also vice rector of the priestly college at Campo Santo Teutonico . During this time he made friends with Hubert Jedin .

In 1937 he was appointed associate professor for church history at the state academy in Braunsberg in East Prussia . From 1940 he was a substitute for the professorship for Church History, Patrology and Christian Archeology at the University of Tübingen . After the end of the war he was appointed full professor there. One of his research interests was the Council of Constance . In 1969 he retired .

His brother was the philosopher Eugen Fink .

Fonts (selection)

• The position of the Constance diocese to the papal chair in the age of the Avignon exile. Herder, Freiburg 1931.
• Martin V. and Aragon. Ebering, Berlin 1938.
• The Vatican Archives: Introduction to the Holdings and Research into Them. Regenberg, Rome 1943; 2nd increased edition 1951.
• The significance of the Council of Constance in world history. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Canonical department. 1965, pp. 1-23.
• Reform of the Curia? An old question that has never been resolved. In: contexts. ISSN  0454-3386 , 1966, pp. 98-105.
• Papacy and Church in the Western Middle Ages. Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-08135-5 .
• Chiesa e papato nel medioevo. Il Mulino, Bologna 1987, ISBN 88-15-01481-0 .

literature

• Rudolf Reinhardt : Karl August Fink in memory. In: Theological quarterly . 163, 1983, pp. 81-85.
• Remigius Bäumer : Karl August Fink †. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive . 104, 1984, pp. 327-330.
• Rudolf Reinhardt:  Fink, Karl August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 990-994.
• Dominik Burkard: Revisionist or Critical Church History? The Tübingen theologian Karl August Fink (1904–1983) . In: Rottenburger yearbook for church history . 32, 2013, pp. 173-210.
• Dominik Burkard: The other Catholicism. Comments on current church events in the 1950s and 1960s in the correspondence between Hans Barion and Karl August Fink . In: Dominik Burkard / Nicole Priesching (ed.): Catholics in the long 19th century. Actors - cultures - mentalities. Otto Weiß on his 80th birthday , Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2616-8 , pp. 349–449.
• Dominik Burkard: "... a churchman as ruthless as a nationalist ..."? The church historian Karl August Fink (1904–1983) and Rome . In: Michael Matheus , Stefan Heid (ed.): Places of Refuge and Personal Networks Places of Refuge and Personal Networks. The "Campo Santo Teutonico" and the Vatican 1933–1955. Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-30930-4 , pp. 457-559.
• Dominik Burkard: "... step aside and let them pass by, the upper monkeys and their entourage ..." (1943). From the correspondence between the church historian Karl August Fink and the parish priest Stephan Wildemann. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive . 136, 2016, pp. 115-206.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl August Fink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Karl August Fink in the Opac der Regesta Imperii