Karl Böckenhoff

Karl Böckenhoff (born July 10, 1870 in Schermbeck , † May 9, 1917 in Strasbourg ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman, canon lawyer and moral theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Karl Böckenhoff entered the Collegium Borromaeum in Münster , where he studied theology and philosophy at the Catholic Royal Academy from 1890 to 1893 . On May 19, 1894 he received the sacrament of ordination from Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad and was subsequently appointed vicar to St. Lambertus in Dolberg .

In 1897 Böckenhoff was released for three years to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . During this time he held the position of chaplain at the German National Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima and was employed at various authorities of the Curia . In 1900 and 1901 Böckenhoff studied law in Berlin , and in 1901 was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on De individuitate matrimonii at the Catholic Royal Academy in Münster. theol. et iur. obtained his doctorate and took on a position as a private lecturer there in 1902 . In 1905 he was appointed associate professor for canon law at the University of Strasbourg , and in 1908 he changed to the chair of moral theology.

Fonts

• De individuitate matrimonii , Berlin 1901.
• The Apostolic Diet Law in the First Five Centuries. A contribution to the understanding of the quasi-Levitical statutes in older church legal sources , Paderborn 1903.
• Dining statutes of a mosaic type in medieval canon law sources of the Orient and Occident , Münster 1907.
• The indissolubility of marriage (= belief and knowledge, issue 18), Münchener Volksschriftenverlag, Munich 1908.
• Catholic Church and Modern State. The relationship between their mutual legal claims , Bachem, Cologne 1911.
• Reform marriage and Christian marriage , Cologne 1912.
• Address at the Christmas celebration in the Strasbourg fortress hospital XXV (Oberrealschule, Manteuffelstrasse) on December 24, 1914 , Du Mont Schauberg, Strasbourg 1914.
• Honor Marriage! Sermons given at the academic church service in Strasbourg Cathedral , 2nd edition, Herder, Freiburg 1915.
• Catholic Church and children out of wedlock. A theological report on the opinion of the Caritas Association in its submission to the Reichstag , Caritasverlag, Freiburg 1916.
• The supernatural life. Seven fasting lectures , Herder, Freiburg 1916.

literature

• Schematism of the diocese of Münster 1898 , Westfälische Vereinsdruckerei 1898, p. 188.
• Schematism of the diocese of Münster 1914 , Westfälische Vereinsdruckerei 1914, p. 196.
• Heinrich Flatten : Böckenhoff, Karl. In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche ², Freiburg 1957, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , Vol. 2, Sp. 551f.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE), 1st edition, Vol. 1, Munich 1995, p. 608.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Böckenhoff in the catalog of the German National Library