Konstantin Maier

Konstantin Maier (born March 29, 1949 in Erolzheim ) is a German Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian .

Life

Konstantin Maier attended the Salvatorkolleg in Bad Wurzach and studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1969 to 1974 . After his doctorate as Dr. theol. With the dissertation Enlightenment in the Upper Swabian Prelatic Monasteries , a stay at the Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome followed . In Rome he also researched the Lucerne nunciature at the Vatican Apostolic Archives . In 1976 he returned to Tübingen and joined the Wilhelmsstift theologian convict there. In 1977 he was a deacon in Ravensburg for one year . In 1978 he was ordained a priest and was parish vicar in Göppingen until 1980 .

On October 1, 1980, he received a teaching position in church history at the theological faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. In 1985 he did his doctorate with Rudolf Reinhardt in Tübingen on the subject of electoral capitulations of the Konstanz cathedral chapter in modern times for dr. phil.

In the winter semester of 1987, the Canton of Lucerne was appointed full professor of church history at the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne ; In 1989 he was appointed prefect of studies at the University of Lucerne. On October 1, 1991, he received a call from Bishop Karl Braun to the chair of Middle and New Church History at the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . In 2014 he retired.

The focus of his research is the imperial church , secularization and Swabian, especially Upper Swabian, monasteries.

Memberships

• 1992 employee of the Görres Foundation ( Görres Society )
• 1996 member of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy
• From 2000 to 2003 member of the editorial committee of the Baden-Württemberg State Exhibition Secularization in the German Southwest.
• Board member in the history association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
• 2003 member of the commission for historical regional studies Baden-Württemberg.
• 2005 Appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Upper Swabian Society for History and Culture .

Awards

• 2015 Friedrich Schiedel Science Prize on the history of Upper Swabia

literature

• Effects of the Enlightenment in the Swabian monasteries , in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 86 (1975), 329–355
• The discussion about church and reform in the Swabian Reich Prelate College at the Time of Enlightenment (Contributions to the History of the Reich Church in Modern Times 7), Wiesbaden 1978
• Nikolaus Betscher. The last abbot of the Red Premonstratensian monastery, an imperial prelate between the ages , in: BC Heimatkundliche Blätter for the district of Biberach 13 (2/1990) 30–35
• Review: The Territories of the Empire in the Age of Reformation and Confessionalization. Country and Confession 1500-1650 , ed. by Anton Schindling and Walter Ziegler, in: Collector sheet of the Historisches Verein Eichstätt 87 (1994) 219–220
• Maria Theresia , in: Ibid., 1348-1349
• Imperial Church , III. Modern times, in: Ibid., 990–991
• The hope of rich profit: The monastery economy and the change to private or state management - comments on Upper Swabian imperial prelatures between 1803 and 1806. In: Continuity and innovation around 1803. Secularization as a process of transformation. Church - Theology - Culture - State. Edited by Rolf Decot (publications by the Institute for European History Mainz, Department for Occidental Religious History, Supplement 65), Mainz 2005, 195–210.