Leopold Fonck

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Leopold Fonck (born January 14, 1865 in Wissen bei Weeze ; † October 19, 1930 in Vienna ) was a German Jesuit , theologian and university professor .

Life

Leopold Fonck was born in Wissen in 1865 as the son of a rentier and completed his school career at the Thomaeum grammar school in Kempen . From 1883 to 1890 Fonck studied philosophy and theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1889 . From 1890 he worked as a spiritual in Telgte near Münster and joined the Jesuit order in 1892. From 1893 Fonck undertook biblical and oriental-oriented study trips to England , Egypt and Palestine and studied from 1896 to 1899 at the universities of Berlin and Munich , whereupon he was professor of New Testament exegesis in Innsbruck from 1901 to 1907 . In 1908 Fonck came to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as Professor of Exegesis of the New Testament , where he was entrusted by Pope Pius X with the founding and management of the Pontifical Biblical Institute ( Pontificio Istituto Biblico ) and appointed consultor of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. When the First World War broke out , Fonck's work was interrupted and he spent the war years in Switzerland . From 1919 to 1929 Fonck was again professor of exegesis in Rome, after which he traveled to Prague as an academic chaplain and in the summer of 1930 to Vienna, where he died in the same year.

Works (selection)

  • Forays through the biblical flora . (1900)
  • The parables of the Lord in the Gospel, explained exegetically and practically . (1902)
  • The miracles of the Lord in the Gospel, explained exegetically and practically . (1903)
  • Selected speeches and conversations of the Lord . (1905)
  • Mysteries of the life of Jesus . (1906)
  • Catholic worldview and free science . (1908)
  • The inerrancy before the forum of science . (1916)

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SURNAME Fonck, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Knowledge at Weeze
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1930
Place of death Vienna