Karl Cornely

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Karl Josef Rudolf Cornely (born April 19, 1830 in Breyell ; † March 3, 1908 in Trier ) was a German Jesuit and biblical scholar .

family

Karl Josef Rudolf Cornely (nickname Karl) was the son of the goldworker Mathias Anton Cornely (1790–1858) and Maria Catharina Elis (1791–1866); his grandparents were the innkeeper Wilhelm Melchior Cornely from Dülken and Catharina Ida Langens (* 1761 Tegelen ) as well as the innkeeper Johann Heinrich Goebbels and Jakobine Houba from Tegelen.

education

After completing his school education, he went to the Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy , the forerunner of the University of Münster and at that time an academic institute for the training of clergy and grammar school teachers for the diocese of Münster . In 1852 he joined the Societas Jesu . His superiors recognized his abilities and decided to give him the best possible practical and theoretical training. When his novitiate was over, he attended two years of courses in scholasticism in Paderborn and Bonn , and another year in spiritual and secular rhetoric . He was then sent to Feldkirch to teach Latin, Greek and German and to chair the disputations of the philosophy students (1857-1859). He returned to Paderborn, where he took courses in dogmatics and moral theology before he was ordained a priest in 1860.

He devoted the next few years to studying the oriental languages ​​in Germany, Ghazir (Lebanon), Egypt and Paris, and acquired extensive knowledge of Syriac , Arabic , Samaritan and Aramaic . After five years he was transferred to Maria Laach to work out his scientific results in the light of dogmatic theology for his dissertation and doctorate .

After spending the third year with the usual Jesuit exercises and other spiritual practices, he was appointed Professor of Exegesis and Oriental Languages ​​in Maria Laach.

Editor of the "Voices from Maria-Laach"

When the Jesuits founded the magazine Voices from Maria-Laach (1870), Cornely first became one of the regular authors and was its editor from 1872 to 1879. His clear and powerful style can best be compared with that of the German classics. The indignation and irony that he gives the Old Catholics , Protestants and politics is due to the attacks on his church and order in the Kulturkampf .

The expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany in 1872 interrupted his work as a professor and made his job as editor extremely difficult. With three or four of his friars he moved to Tervuren , and although many of his collaborators and the rich library of Maria-Laach were scattered in different places, he not only managed to keep the magazine at its previous level, but also theirs To strengthen and expand influence on Catholic Germany. Most of the men who contributed to the votes from that point on were won over and trained by the Cornelys personality, which ensured tone and tendency. An important stage in the development of the voices was the publication of the first supplementary books in 1876 , the foundation of which was initiated by the numerous philosophical writings of Tilman Pesch (1836–1899), not all of which could be published in the voices without the character of the magazine to change.

The Catholic Missions

In 1873, Cornely founded the magazine The Catholic Missions . This magazine was aimed at German readers and described the work and successes of the German missionaries as well as the history, geography and ethnographic characteristics of the German missions abroad. At the beginning, Cornely did the main work for this magazine himself, but it was soon spread over several shoulders: Cornely wrote about Europe and Australia, Alexander Baumgartner about Asia, Wilhelm Kreiten about Africa and Franz von Hummelauer about America.

Professor in Rome

In 1879 Cornely was appointed professor of exegesis at the Gregoriana in Rome. Here he designed and wrote the first volumes of Cursus Scripturæ Sacræ , a complete biblical encyclopedia, the largest publication of its kind in new Catholic literature. In order to implement this great project, it took the joint efforts of many scholars. Cornely himself wrote the general and special introductions and commentaries on the letters of Paul . In 1889 he refused to give further lectures in order to put all his energy into this work. From then on he continued his Bible studies until 1902 in Bleijenbeek and then in Trier, where he died in 1908.

He also made a name for himself with his Introductio in Scripturam Sacram (3 and 4 volumes, Paris 1885–87, reprint 1925, excerpt, obtained from P. Merk, 1944, French Paris 1930). With this work he had a leading influence on Catholic biblical studies and had a decisive influence on several magisterial decisions of the Church on questions of the Bible.

Works (selection)

  • Life of Blessed Spinola (Mainz, 1868)
  • Analyzes librorum sacrorum NT (Paris, 1888)
  • Commentarium in prior ep. ad Corinthios (Paris, 1890)
  • Commentarius in epistolas ad Cor. alterum et ad Galatas (Paris, 1892)
  • Introductio generalis in UT libros sacros (Paris, 1893)
  • Commentarius in ep. ad Romanos (Paris, 1896)
  • Introductio specialis in historicos VT libros (Paris, 1897)
  • Introductio specialis in didacticos et propheticos VT libros (Paris, 1897)
  • Introductio specialis in singulos NT libros (Paris, 1897)
  • Psalmorum synopses (Paris, 1899)
  • Synopses omnium librorum sacrorum (Paris, 1899)
  • Historicæ et criticæ Introductionis in UT libros Compendium (Paris, 1900)
  • Life of Blessed Petrus Faber (Freiburg, 1900)

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Data on the family according to the NDB
  2. ↑ In 1649 the Jesuit Order founded a college in Feldkirch, from which the Stella Matutina elite high school, which was sponsored by the Austrian imperial family, developed from 1856 onwards .
  3. ↑ The Jesuits bought Maria Laach on January 24, 1863 to set up a Collegium Maximum there. Until 1870 the provincialate of the German Order Province was also housed in Maria Laach.
  4. ↑ The Jesuit Law of July 4, 1872 also led to Maria Laach's abandonment
personal data
SURNAME Cornely, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornely, Karl Josef Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and university professor for exegesis at the Gregoriana
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Breyell
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1908
Place of death trier