Marcellinus Molkenbuhr

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Marcellinus Molkenbuhr OFM , also Marzellin (us) and Molckenbuhr (born September 1, 1741 in Rheine (Westphalia) as Bernd Anton Molkenbuhr ; † June 16, 1825 in Paderborn ) was a priest in the Franciscan order , theologian and book author.

Life

Bernd Anton Molkenbuhr attended the Franciscan high school Dionysianum in Rheine and then the Jesuit college in Münster . In 1758 he entered the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ) in Hamm and received the religious name Marcellinus . After studying at the Franciscan study houses in Warendorf (philosophy), Halberstadt (theology) and Bielefeld (Bible exegesis and canon law), he was ordained a priest on October 27, 1764 . and lectured as a lecturer in the study houses of Saxonia from 1766 philosophy (until 1769 in Geseke , until 1772 in Vreden , until 1774–1786 in Rietberg ) and from 1774 to 1786 theology in Paderborn . From 1786 he was entrusted with leadership positions in his order province. First he was Guardian of the convent in Paderborn. From 1787 he held the office of curator . The provincial chapter of Saxonia elected him provincial in 1789 , again in 1798 and for the third time in 1807, each for a three-year term. In the intervening years he was provincial secretary and from 1805 again custodian. The seat of the provincial council was in the Franciscan monastery of Münster . In 1804 the order's leadership in Rome commissioned him to visit his own province. As a Provincial, he paid particular attention to a thorough and consistent training of the offspring of the Provincial Order in the study convents and personally checked the curricula, which he shielded against the influences of the Enlightenment and philosophers like Immanuel Kant .

When the monastery in Münster was abolished in 1812 as a result of secularization , Molkenbuhr initially retired to his homeland in Rheine, but in 1815 went to the convent in Paderborn, which was spared from the monastery closings.

Writing activity

Marcellinus Molkenbuhr emerged as a controversial theologian . He wrote 26 scientific dissertations in Latin in the areas of exegesis , patrology and church history , in which he combated the attacks on religion and the orders ; the Franciscan grammar school teacher and historian Crescens Schupmann called him the "guardian of Israel in Westphalia and beyond". In his writings he also commented on the positions of other Catholic and non-Catholic authors as well as on events related to the secularization movement. In 1796 the University of Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate after his first dissertations .

Marcellinus Molkenbuhr worked as an author well into old age, even if he recently showed a certain rigidity when in 1820 he argued against the former Franciscan and pastor in Düsseldorf-Bilk, Anton Joseph Binterim , that the apostles had the New Testament written in Latin. 77-year-old he was at the foundation of the 1818 University of Bonn from Jerome Windischmann been proposed for a chair of theology. In his history of the Catholic theological faculty in Bonn , the historian Heinrich Schrörs apostrophized him in 1921 as “a prolific writer who is badly known as a scientific eccentric”. In 1818/1820 he published a two-volume church history.

Publications (selection)

  • Dissertatio Scripturistico-Critica An Cephas Quem Paulus Antiochiæ ​​Gal. 2, 11, Fuerit Simon Petrus Apostolorum Coryphæus? Unà cum Nonnullis Digressionibus In Actus Et Epistolas Apostolorum Ac Authoritatem Historicam Græcorum Clementis Alexandrini Et Eusebii Cæsariensis more scholastico discussa. Junffermann, Paderbornae 1785.
  • Answer of the Paderborn to the justification of the theologians in the Mainz monthly 1786 regarding the fasting and abstinence requirement. Paderborn 1786.
  • Binæ Dissertationes De Cathedris Petri Romana & Antiochena Ac De Primis Petri Successeribus Una Cum Nonnullis Digressionibus Criticis In Actus Apostolorum Ac Epistolas Petri Et Pauli, Discussæ. Junffermann, Paderbornae 1788.
  • Binæ Dissertationes: I. De S. Firmiliani Cæsariensis In Cappadocia Episcopi Epistola Ad S. Stephanum, Aliisque Ejus Operibus; II. De Anno, Quo Mortuus Fuerit Firmilianus Seu Paulus Samosatenus In Synodo Antiochena Fuerit Condemnatus. Aschendorf , Monasterii Westphalorum 1790.
  • Dissertatio Critica Duodecima: Quod Duæ Famosæ Epistolæ Ss. Polycratis et Irenæi Adversus S. Victorem Papam In Causa Paschatis Sint Supposititiæ, Ubi De Eusebio Cæsariensi, SS. Hieronymo Et Epiphanio. Aschendorf, Monasterii Westphalorum 1793.
  • Illumination of the frank and critical remarks about the pastoral lecture by JM Sailer zu Dillingen, the behavior of the clergy in consideration of the celibacy law, etc. Münster 1793. Digitized
  • The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine in Paris, 1796, edited, illuminated and refuted. Paderborn 1797.
  • First answer to the alleged monastic tyranny in Paderborn; presented to the peace congress in Rastatt . Paderborn 1798.
  • Against the book: Life and Fates of Guido Schulz, in which the Franciscans, all monks, the Mother of God and Christ himself are very blasphemed. Munster 1803.
  • Against the book: Thoughts of a Protestant Christian, in which Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg and the entire Catholic religion ... are reprimanded. Munster 1803.
  • New interpretation of the Holy Scriptures of the A. Testament ... refuted. Dorsten 1806.
  • Notes about the new German translations of the NT Bible by Carl and Leander van Eß, pastors, also especially about the punished Cephas. Schlegel, Paderborn 1817.
  • Historia religionis christianae in compendio et ordine chronico exhibita adiectis quibusdam notis criticis. 2 volumes, Paderborn 1818–1820, 2nd edition Hertogenbosch 1831.
  • Problema criticum: Sacra Scriptura Novi Testamenti in quo idiomate originaliter from Apostolis edita fuerit? Paderborn 1821.
  • Antonii Josephi Binterim Pastoris in Suburbio Dusseldorpiensi Epistola Catholica Interlinealis de Lingua originali novi Testamenti non latina. Carpenter, Düsseldorpii 1820.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benedikt Peters: Book of the Dead of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross, revised and annotated after the first edition by Father Patricius Schlager OFM. Second volume: Evidence. Werl 1948, p. 114.
  2. ↑ Benedikt Peters: Book of the Dead of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross, revised and annotated after the first edition by Father Patricius Schlager OFM. Second volume: Evidence. Werl 1948, p. 114.
  3. ↑ About the Order of St. Franciscus of Assisi, in particular about the Saxon province of the same, called the Holy Cross. (Author: Kreszens Schupmann) In: Athanasia , XI. Volume (1831), pp. 67–152, here p. 135. On Crescens / Kreszens Schupmann: * 1782 in Geseke, † 1932 in Rietberg, until 1811 teacher at the grammar school in Vreden , 1813–1826 in Rietberg ; Source: Benedikt Peters: Book of the Dead of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross ... Second volume: Evidence. Werl 1948, p. 41f.
  4. ^ Willibald Kullmann: Literary-friendly relations between Marzellin Molkenbuhr and Anton Joseph Binterim. In: Franziskanische Studien 20 (1933), pp. 130–144.
  5. ^ Heinrich Schrörs: History of the Catholic theological faculty in Bonn 1818–31. Part 1, Cologne 1921, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Molkenbuhr, Marcellinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molkenbuhr, Marzellin; Molckenbuhr, Marcellinus; Molkenbuhr, Bernd Anton (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan priest, theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1825
Place of death Paderborn