Leo Koep

Leo Koep (born October 10, 1914 in Bonn , † July 20, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Catholic church historian , liturgical scholar and pastoral theologian .

Koep studied Catholic theology in Bonn from 1935 to 1940 and was ordained a priest in Cologne on July 25, 1940. Pastoral work and military service followed. On February 24, 1947, he obtained his doctorate in Bonn. theol., then he was chaplain in Cologne. From 1952 to 1954 he headed the library of the Ettal monastery , from 1955 to 1960 he was first general secretary, then director of the Borromeo Association . On July 25, 1956, he completed his habilitation in the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn for church history and Christian archeology. In order to continue his academic career, at the beginning of 1961 he took over a position as senior assistant in the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Bonn, became an associate professor on May 7, 1962, and on April 10, 1962, he became full professor for pastoral theology with a focus on liturgical science at the University of Freiburg i. Br. Appointed.

Works (selection)

• The Heavenly Book in Antiquity and Christianity. A study of the history of religion on early Christian imagery (= Theophaneia . Vol. 8). Hanstein, Bonn 1952.
• The consecration coins of Emperor Constantine and their religious and political significance . In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 1, 1958, pp. 94-104.
• Church library work in Catholic Germany . In: Ten years of library work in the area of ​​the Borromeo Association (1948 to 1957) (= workbooks for library work . No. 2). Verlag des Borromäusverein, Bonn 1959, pp. 19–50.
• The position of the Archbishop of Cologne in the statutes of the Borromeo Association . In: The Church and its Offices and Estates , Festgabe Joseph Card. Frings. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1960, pp. 555-569.
• Ancient empire and confession of Christ in contradiction . In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 4, 1961, pp. 58-76.
• "Religio" and "Rite" as a problem of early Christianity . In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 5, 1962, pp. 43-59.
• Astrologia usque ad Evangelium concessa. To Tertullian, De Idololatria 9 . In: Mullus , Festschrift Theodor Klauser (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 1). Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1964, pp. 199-208.
• The liturgy of the Sessiones Generales at the Council of Constance . In: August Franzen, Wolfgang Müller (ed.), The Council of Constance. Contributions to its history and theology . Freiburg 1964, pp. 241-251.
• together with Alfons Vodermayer: The Catholic People's Libraries in Germany . In: Johannes Langfeld (Ed.), Handbuch des Büchereiwesens , 2nd half volume. Wiesbaden 1965, pp. 387-420.

literature

• Gerhard Rexin:  Koep, Leo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 914-916.