Klaus Schatz

Klaus Schatz SJ (born February 24, 1938 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Klaus Schatz first studied history and Latin at the universities of Mainz , Munich and Münster from 1956 to 1962 . Inspired by his membership in the Pauluskreis of the Marian Congregation around the Jesuit priest Walter Mariaux, he entered the Jesuit order in 1962 and, after the two-year novitiate at Eringerfeld Castle, continued to study at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen until 1969 . In 1975 he received a doctorate in church history from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1975 to 2006 he taught as a professor for church history at the PTH Sankt Georgen. He is known for numerous publications on the history of the Jesuit order, the First Vatican Council and the papal primacy . Some of his works have been translated into several languages.

Works

• Church image and papal infallibility among the German-speaking minority bishops at Vatican I (=  Miscellanea historiae pontificiae . No. 40 ). Univ. Gregoriana, Rome 1975 (529 pp.).
• Ignace of Senestrey: How the definition of papal infallibility came about. Diary of the 1st Vatican Council . Ed .: Klaus Schatz (=  Frankfurt Theological Studies . No. 24 ). Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 978-3-7820-0380-3 (162 pages).
• Believe in this church. Hopes, expectations, reflections . Echter, Würzburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-429-00762-1 (166 pages).
• History of the Diocese of Limburg (=  sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history . No. 48 ). Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 1983, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-1037430 (494 pages).
• Between secularization and Vatican II. The path of German Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-7820-0546-3 (344 pages).
• The papal primacy. Its history from the origins to the present . Echter, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-429-01274-8 (230 pages, translations into English, French, Italian, Greek, Polish, Spanish and Czech).
• Vaticanum I. 1869–1870 (=  Council history. Series A, representations ). Schöningh, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 978-3-506-74693-1 (3 volumes).
• Ultramontanism, Bellum iustum and conscientious objection (=  contributions to peace ethics . No. 20 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-17-013227-6 (37 pages).
• From European Christianity to the universal Church. Glimpses through the mission history of modern times (15th – 20th centuries) . Book on Demand, Frankfurt am Main 2003 (236 pages).
• Church history of the modern age (=  Guide Theology . Volume 2 , no. 20 ). 3. Edition. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-70421-3 (203 pages, first edition: 1989, translated into Spanish).
• General councils. Focal points of church history (=  UTB . No. 1976 ). 2nd Edition. Schöningh, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1976-5 (360 pages, first edition: 1997, translated into Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian).
• History of the German Jesuits (1814–1983) . 5 volumes. Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-12964-7 .
• “... That this mission would be one of the most flourishing in the East ...” Fr. Alexander de Rhodes (1593–1660) and the early Jesuit mission in Vietnam . Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-13100-8 (260 pp., Translation into Vietnamese).
• History of the Swiss Jesuits (1947–1983) (=  History of the German Jesuits (1814–1983) . No. 6 ). Aschendorff, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-13239-5 (378 pages).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical information according to Klaus Schatz: History of the German Jesuits (1814–1983) . tape 5 . Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-12968-5 , pp. 343 .
2. ↑ See council and order historian Klaus Schatz turns 80. German Province of the Jesuits / KNA, February 22, 2018, archived from the original on July 19, 2018 .  Some of the biographical details in this message are incorrect.