Ludger Muller
Ludger Müller (born August 25, 1952 in Ratingen ; † April 19 or April 20, 2020 ) was a Roman Catholic canon lawyer .
Life
From 1972 to 1985, Müller studied Catholic theology , philosophy , musicology , history and canon law at the universities of Bonn, Münster, Eichstätt and Munich. In 1982 he completed his studies with a Lic. Theol. in Eichstätt. He was a research assistant with Hubert Müller at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1980/1981) and with Peter Krämer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt (1981 to 1985). In 1985 he was with Peter Krämer with a canonical work on the Jesuit Francis Xavier Zech to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1990 he received his doctorate in Munich with a thesis on the legal character of the ecclesiastical legal system. After a brief activity as an official councilor in Osnabrück, he was a research assistant at the Canon Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1986 to 2000 . In 1996 , Müller completed his habilitation in the subject of canon law and ecclesiastical legal history in Munich with the work “The legal concept in canon law. On the demarcation of law and morality in German-language canon law studies of the 19th and 20th centuries ”. He worked as a private lecturer in Munich and lecturer in Regensburg and Eichstätt.
After a substitute for canon law at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg , he was appointed to the chair for canon law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in 2000 . Since 2001 he has been a permanent visiting professor at the Theological Faculty of Lugano ( Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano ). In 2016/17 he worked as a supplement for canon law at the Philosophical-Theological University of the Diocese of St. Pölten and at the same time lecturer and member of the Institute for Church History and Canon Law at the Philosophical-Theological University of Heiligenkreuz . In October 2017, he was retired as a university professor.
Müller was a diocesan judge in Osnabrück as well as active at the consistories in Augsburg, Munich and Regensburg and at the archbishopric officials in Freiburg im Breisgau, Cologne and Bamberg. From 2006 he was a marriage defender , church attorney and interrogation judge at the Episcopal Diocesan Court of St. Pölten.
In April 2011, Müller was received by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Consultor of the Pontifical Council on Legal Texts .
Ludger Müller was married. He was ordained a deacon on September 22, 2013 in Melk Abbey by Bishop Klaus Küng for the diocese of St. Pölten .
Fonts
- Church, State, Canon Law , Pustet Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-7917-1024-9
- Canon Law - Analogous Law? , EOS-Verlag St. Ottilien 1990, ISBN 3-88096-576-5
- The legal term in canon law , EOS-Verlag St. Ottilien 1999, ISBN 3-88096-352-5
- Religious instruction between norm and reality , Bonifatius Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-89710-082-7 , together with Stephan Leimgruber
- Church without a right? : Status and tasks of canon law science today , Bonifatius Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-89710-082-7 , together with Libero Gerosa
- "Criminal Law" in a Church of Love: Necessity or Contradiction? , Lit Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9272-7 (editor)
- as ed. with Wilhelm Rees : Spirit - Church - Law (= Canonical Studies and Texts, Vol. 62). Festschrift for Libero Gerosa for his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-428-14393-1 .
- Müller wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).
literature
- Libero Gerosa , Christoph Ohly , Wilhelm Rees (eds.): Theologia Iuris Canonici (= Canonical Studies and Texts, Vol. 67). Festschrift for Ludger Müller on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15339-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludger Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Ludger Müller (University of Vienna, PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ April 20, 2020: Mourning for Prof. Ludger Müller. April 21, 2020, accessed on April 23, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b CV (PDF; 154 kB) of Müller at the Heiligenkreuz University of Applied Sciences , as of October 2017.
- ↑ Pope appoints canon lawyers Müller and Pree to commission. kathweb.at, April 15, 2011, accessed on June 1, 2019.
- ↑ German canon lawyers appointed as advisors to the Pope ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Liborius.de, April 14, 2011.
- ↑ Joy in the diocese of St. Pölten over 14 deacon ordinations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Ludger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canon lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 2020 or April 20, 2020 |