Konrad Luebeck

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Konrad Lübeck (born May 13, 1873 in Hünfeld , † November 25, 1952 in Fulda ) was a German Catholic priest , high school teacher, church historian, local researcher and author .

background

Konrad Lübeck was born as the son of Martin Lübeck, a master carpenter from Huenfeld . His mother Maria came from a family of craftsmen in Fulda. He had three brothers, two of whom were master carpenters. The third bought a mill in Hünfeld, where he was chief master of the miller's guild and was elected to the city council as the center party's top candidate .

Konrad Lübeck attended the Hünfeld city school before moving to grade 7 (Quarta) of the Fulda grammar school in 1885, where he passed his Abitur in 1892. He then studied theology and philosophy for seven semesters at the Fulda Theological Faculty and at the same time prepared himself for the profession of priest at the Fulda seminary.

Priest and theologian

On December 21, 1895, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Georg Ignaz Komp in Fulda Cathedral. As a chaplain he worked from January 1896 to Easter 1898 in Fulda and then until Easter 1899 in Marburg . He was then given leave of absence to continue his theological studies, which he completed for four years at the Philipps University in Marburg , the theological faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the VKDSt Rhenania Marburg in the CV in 1898 . In Marburg he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Church and Secular Eparchial Constitution of the Orient at the time of the Council of Nicaä in 1901 as a doctor of philosophy and then in Berlin as a doctor of theology. In Munster he acquired the license to teach Catholic religion, history, Hebrew and geography.

Lübeck wanted to do his habilitation in order to teach at a university. As a diocesan priest , this wish was refused by Adalbert Endert as the holder of the episcopal chair and he was appointed by him as the second clergyman alongside Wilhelm Frye as a teacher at the Fulda grammar school. From April 14, 1902, he was a trial candidate and a year later a teacher. In 1911 he received the title of professor.

Orientalism and Byzantology

On behalf of the Görres Society , he was in Jerusalem from 1909 to 1910 in order to prepare the establishment of the "Oriental Institute", whose early Christian department he took over. After his return to Germany, because of the scientific work he did there, he was considered one of the best experts on oriental Christianity, including among Protestant theologians.

In 1911 he became a member of the Byzantological Society of Athens. The Patriarch of Jerusalem made him a Knight and later Commander in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Kyrillos VIII. Geha awarded him the honorary title of Archimandrite . This title was confirmed by Pope Pius X personally with the permission to wear the Catholic insignia of a prelate instead of the oriental one. The First World War and its consequences made further activities in the Eastern Churches difficult or impossible for Lübeck. The promotion of the idea of union was still a matter of concern to him, as his participation in union congresses in Vienna in 1926 and Velehrad in 1927 testify. He was a member of the central board of the German Association of the Holy Land and was diocesan director of the Franziskus Xaverius Association . In addition, he was active in the “Association of the Holy Childhood of Jesus”, in the priestly mission union “Unio cleri pro missionibus” and in the papal “Association for the formation of a local clergy of the Holy Apostle Peter”. His writings on the Oriental Church and his books on the Russian Church published in 1922 have been criticized in part for being primarily centered on Catholic thought. Lübeck lacks objectivity and justice towards other Christian churches. His writing style has been described both as clumsy and overloaded with foreign words and as masterful in a generally understandable form.

Local history contributions

From 1929 he researched local history. His works, in particular the two volumes of "Alte Ortschaften im Fuldaer Land", are still considered to be standard works and are cited , for example, in the Hesse State Historical Information System in the respective place descriptions. In addition to the books he published, Lübeck published many articles in magazines that appear throughout Germany and also in foreign magazines. His aim was to publish a comprehensive history of Fulda, but this failed due to differences with the Fulda historian Gregor Richter . The research of Lübeck was precise and source-based with the indication of the respective source and also of further literature. However, it is problematic for further use that he rarely used originals and documents. In addition to copies of documents, he preferred to use the writings of Johann Friedrich Schannat , of which it is known today that they mainly contain unproven information, some of which later turned out to be incorrect.

By Joseph Damian Schmitt Lübeck became the clergy counsel appointed. After the National Socialists came to power , he was urged to retire on October 1, 1934, “at his own request”. Then he continued his homeland research. Most of the results were only published after the Second World War. As a priest, he was a celebrant in the Fulda parish church and in the chapel of the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary there.

Aftermath

He died on November 25, 1952 in the Fulda Municipal Clinic and was buried on November 28 in the "Old Municipal Cemetery" in Hünfeld. At his grave, the mayors of Fulda and Hünfeld, Cuno Raabe and Detlev Rudelsdorf, as well as Franz Ranft from the cathedral grammar school in Fulda spoke of him as an exemplary priest and educator who, as a teacher and researcher, was an important citizen of the city of Fulda and Hünfeld's great son. The "Lübeckstrasse" in Fulda and the "Professor-Lübeck-Strasse" in Hünfeld are named after him.

Works

  • The ecclesiastical and secular eparchial constitution of the Orient at the time of the Council of Nicaea 325. Printed by the Westfälische Vereinsdruckerei, Marburg 1901, OCLC 4816739 ( dissertation Philipps University of Marburg 1901, 60 pages).
  • The Christian Churches of the Orient , Kösel, Kempten 1911, DNB 580612171 .
  • The development of the Catholic Mission to the Orient , JP Bachem Cologne 1917, DNB 364978589 .
  • Georgia and the Catholic Church: An overview , Xaverius, Aachen 1918, DNB 580612155 .
  • Patriarch Maximus III. Maslum: An excerpt from the recent history of the Greek-Melchite Church , Xaverius, Aachen 1919, DNB 58061218X .
  • The ancient Persian mission church: a historical overview , Xaverius, Aachen 1919, DNB 580612201 .
  • The Russian Missions: An Overview , Xaverius, Aachen 1922, DNB 580612198 .
  • The Christianization of Russia: A Historical Overview , Xaverius, Aachen 1922, DNB 580612147 .
  • Bishop Justinus de Jacobis, the apostle of Abyssinia: An excerpt from the more recent mission history , Xaverius, Aachen 1922, DNB 580612163 .
  • The development of the city of Fulda , Fuldaer Actiendruckerei, Fulda 1934, DNB 574921133 .
  • The Boniface grave in Fulda , Parzeller, Fulda 1947, DNB 453097502 .
  • Fuldaer Heilige , Parzeller , Fulda 1948, DNB 453097510 .
  • The Fulda abbots and prince abbots of the Middle Ages: A historical overview , Parzeller, Fulda, 1952, DNB 453097499 .
  • Old towns in the Fulda region
    • Volume 1: Old towns in the district of Hünfeld , Parzeller, Fulda 1934, DNB 560698054 .
    • Volume 2: Old localities of the Fulda district , Parzeller, Fulda 1936, OCLC 162936318 .
  • Fulda studies
    • Volume 1 , Fulda History Association, Fulda 1949, DNB 453097537 .
    • Volume 2 , Fulda History Association, Fulda 1950, DNB 453097545 .
    • Volume 3 , Fulda History Association, Fulda 1952, DNB 453097553 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Mott : Fuldaer Köpf , Vol. 2. Verlag Parzeller, Fulda 2011, ISBN 978-3-7900-0442-7 , pp. 277-280 (first published in the Fuldaer Zeitung on April 6th 2010, p. 13).
  2. ↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations , edition 1912, Strasbourg in Alsace 1912, p. 229.
  3. ^ "Konrad Lübeck" in the BBKL ( Memento from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lübeck, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastor, church historian, teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1952
Place of death Fulda