Karl von Boeselager

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Father Freiherr von Boeselager SJ

Baron Karl Georg Friedrich von Boeselager , also Karl von Boeselager-Nette (born March 9, 1848 at Thienhausen Castle , in Steinheim (Westphalia) ; † August 28, 1890 in Bombay , India) was a German Jesuit and professor of history at the university from Bombay .

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Karl Freiherr von Boeselager , with full name Karl Gregor Friedrich von Boeselager auf Nette, was the son of Klemens Freiherr von Boeselager (1808-1858) and his wife Sophie born. Freiin von Wolff-Metternich (1807–1879). The mother was a cousin of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , with whom there was also close contact. The boy lost his father at the age of ten.

Karl von Boeselager grew up on Gut Nette near Osnabrück, which his parents bought in 1851 and whose name the family also bore as an addition. He attended the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück , graduated from high school there in 1868 and studied law at the University of Heidelberg , later at the University of Bonn . Here he was active in KV in the Catholic student association Arminia Bonn . In the Franco-Prussian War 1870–71 , Karl von Boeselager took part in the ranks of the Bonn Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I" (1st Rheinisches) No. 7.

On September 23, 1873, Baron von Boeselager entered the Jesuit novitiate, was ordained a priest after studying philosophy and theology and was sent to India as a missionary. He arrived there on November 22, 1884. Here he worked in Bombay as a priest in pastoral care and also taught from 1884 to 1890 at the St. Xavier's College and at the State University of Bombay as a professor of history. Boeselager died in Bombay at the age of 42 of a liver disease that he contracted in India. He was one of the first German professors to teach at an Indian state university.

Pater von Boeselager received as the sole heir of his great-uncle Karl Freiherr v. Boeselager-Heessen (1782-1857) his large fortune and rich property, including Heimerzheim Castle in the Rhein-Sieg district , today's family seat. As a Jesuit, however, he gave everything to his brother Philipp (1846–1898), the grandfather of the later Hitlerite opponents, Georg Freiherr von Boeselager (1915–1944) and Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager (1917–2008).

literature

  • Alfons Väth : The German Jesuits in India: History of the Mission of Bombay-Duna (1854-1920) , Pustet Verlag Regensburg, 1920, page 144
  • The emissary of the Divine Heart of Jesus (journal of the prayer apostolate ): Biography of Father Böselager (with photo) in booklets No. 7 and No. 9, 1921

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source for the full name
  2. ↑ Source on the relationship with Annette Droste-Hülshoff
  3. ↑ To the Hofgut (today monastery) Nette in Osnabrück
  4. ↑ Source on the place of study in Heidelberg
  5. ↑ On the uncle and his inheritance to Father Boeselager (from page 22, under point 2 / III) PDF 215 kB
  6. ↑ Source on the donation of the inheritance to the brother Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager
  7. ↑ Source on the relationship with the two resistance fighters Georg and Philipp von Boeselager
personal data
SURNAME Boeselager, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boeselager, Karl Georg Friedrich von (full name); Boeselager-Nette, Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and professor of history at the University of Bombay
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheim (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1890
Place of death Bombay , India