Klaus Gamber

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Klaus Gamber (born April 23, 1919 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † June 2, 1989 in Regensburg ) was a priest and liturgical historian .

Life

Klaus Gamber was born the third of four children. When he was 17 years old, the family had to move to Regensburg because of the transfer of his father, where Gamber graduated from high school in 1937. Most of the subsequent Reich Labor Service he spent in the penal camp due to a lack of National Socialist sentiments. He then began his theology studies in Regensburg, which was interrupted after four semesters by being called up for military service on September 9, 1939. He already used these years for his passion, liturgical research, and conducted manuscript studies in numerous libraries (Erfurt, Gotha, Stettin, Stargard, Frankfurt an der Oder, Leipzig and Jena), the results of which he published after the war. Gamber was particularly influenced by a one-year stay as a soldier in Greece. Here his interest in the Eastern cult deepened . After the end of the war, which he had survived unscathed despite operations at the front, Gamber rejoined the Regensburg seminary . During this time he began to publish his first publications.

priest

After being ordained priest in 1948, he first became a chaplain in Roding (Cham district) and Tegernheim (Regensburg district). On February 2, 1952, the young priest took up a position as an expositus in Wolfsegg (district of Regensburg) and was able to set up a parish cinema in addition to building a kindergarten and a youth home. But that also ended my studies in Regensburg. From 1956 Gamber was allowed to study part-time and enrolled at the University of Munich . A life-threatening illness also interrupted this study and led to a leave of absence from pastoral work in 1957. Gamber continued his private studies and relocated to the former conventChecking near Regensburg. Under the direction of the well-known Palimpsest researcher Alban Dold OSB, the "Liturgiewwissenschaftliche Institut Regensburg -prüfunging" (Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense) was established in the premises of the former abbey together with the Regensburg Father Emmeram von Thurn und Taxis and Klaus Gamer's brother Wolfram Gamber (1909–1987) founded. Gamber was soon considered to be the best connoisseur of Western liturgical literature and repeatedly sensed early texts that he recorded on microfilm , thus bringing together one of the most extensive manuscript collections. He was also able to compare the texts with one another and to relate them, as can be seen in numerous essays and papers. In 1958, his scientific work was recognized by being made an honorary member of the Pontifical Liturgical Academy. After Alban Dold's death, he headed the Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense.

It was not until 1967 that Gamber obtained a doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of Budapest . In addition, the Ukrainian Free University in Munich awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc) in the same year.

In the last years of his life, Gamber dealt increasingly with current liturgical questions and complained about the urgency of carrying out the liturgical reform . He made it clear that it could not stand before the Church's past and the basic laws of the liturgy. Gamber worked from 1982 as the Princely Court Chaplain in the Thurn und Taxis house in Regensburg. In 1987 the scholar was elected Vice President of the Henry Bradshaw Society in London, a society for the advancement of liturgical research.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Sacramentarium Gregorianum. Multi-part work. Blow, Regensburg.
  • Codices liturgici Latini antiquiores. Multi-part work. Universitäts Verlag, Friborg
  • German Passionale. A Series of Martyrs' Reports for Worship, 1–4. 1946-1947.
  • with Alban Dold (Ed.): Ways to the Urgregorianum. Discussion of the basic questions and attempted reconstruction by the sacramentary Gregory the Great in 592. Beuroner Kunstverlag, 1956.
  • with Alban Dold: The Sacramentary of Monza. In Cod. F 1/101 of the chapter library there. One from single Libelli red. Annual messbook, a Scheyerer sacramentary fragment in the Monza type. Beuroner Kunstverlag, 1957.
  • with Alban Dold, Bernhard Bischoff (Ed.): Sacramentary types. Attempt to group the manuscripts and fragments up to the turn of the millennium. Beuroner Kunstverlag, 1958.
  • (Ed.): The sacramentary of Jena. Bud. MF 366 d. University library. Fragments later Gelasiana from Northern Italy (attached work). Beuroner Kunstverlag, 1962.
  • Codices liturgici Latini antiquiores. Multi-part work. Universitäts Verlag, Friborg 1963.
  • Legend or truth? Way to the New Testament. 3. Edition. Auer / Cassianeum, Donauwörth 1964.
  • Nicetae Episcopi Instructionis ad competentes. Multi-part work. 1965-1966.
  • Liturgy the day after tomorrow. Thoughts on the history and future of worship. Herder, 1966.
  • On the medieval history of Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate: Small studies of local history and liturgy history. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1968.
  • Return to the tradition of the early liturgy. Guide to real reform. Printed as a manuscript. Self published in 1980.
  • Reform of the Roman liturgy. History and problem. Printed as a manuscript, self-published in 1981.
  • Renewal through innovations? On the current situation of the Roman Church, especially in the liturgical field. Printed as a manuscript. 2. revised Edition. Self published in 1981.
  • The old fair - still? Reflections on the popular altar, concelebration, and outdoor mass worship. Self published in 1982.
  • Light from the east? The importance of orthodoxy today. With an appendix: prayers of the Eastern Church. 2., ext. Edition. Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense, 1982.
  • Preserve the Legacy: The Change in Faith and Liturgy after the Vatican 2nd self-published 1983.
  • Liturgy today. On the problem of the current reforms. Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense, 1969.
  • Liturgy - Service to God. Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense, 1984.
  • The secret of the seven stars: on the symbolism of the apocalypse. Pustet, Regensburg 1987, ISBN 3-7917-1140-7
  • Ed. Martin Reinecke: Back to the common heritage. Critical reflections on the situation of the liturgy and the church. Selected texts from life's work. EOS, St. Ottilien 1999, ISBN 3-88096-982-5 .
  • The epiclesis in the occidental prayer of the Eucharist. Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1167-9 .
  • Holy Russia: 1000 years of the Russian Orthodox Church. With contributions by Klaus Gamber. License issue. Herder, 1988.
  • The epiclesis in the occidental prayer of the Eucharist. Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1167-9 .
  • To the Lord! Questions about prayer to the east. VDM, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-936755-12-4 .
  • Testimony of the martyrs of the early Church. According to contemporary court records, letters and reports. Sanctus, Dettelbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-89754-909-8 .

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SURNAME Gamber, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest and liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1989
Place of death regensburg