Margarete Schmid

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Margarete Schmid (born October 9, 1914 in Innsbruck ; † January 11, 1997 in Vienna ) was an Austrian philosopher , Roman Catholic theologian and founder of the Theological Courses of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the Institute for Distance Learning for Theological Education of the Austrian Bishops' Conference .

Life

Margarete Schmid was born as the fifth of seven children in a well-off middle-class family in Innsbruck . Since theology studies for lay people, especially women, were excluded at the time, she began studying philosophy , pedagogy , history and German at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck . In 1937 she completed her studies with a doctorate in philosophy and, at the invitation of General Secretary Leopold Engelhart, took up a position at the Catholic Action Vienna in 1938 . After the dissolution of the Catholic Action under the Nazi regime , she worked in the Viennese pastoral office. As the city had become a meeting place for academics and intellectuals as a result of the closure of all Catholic faculties with the exception of Vienna, Margarete Schmid came into contact with leading clergy and cultural personalities ( castle actors , writers, philosophers and theologians): Otto Mauer , Alois Dempf , Karl, among others Rahner , Erich Przywara and Romano Guardini . After the war she studied Catholic theology and obtained her second doctorate in 1956.

"Religious literature" section

In the pastoral office in Vienna, she took over the management of the “Religious Literature” section, which she was in charge of until 1985. In 1947 she founded the review magazine “Die Zeit im Buch”, which reviewed new publications in a professional manner and with Christian standards and which she directed until 1996. In 1951 she founded the correspondence course "Course for Book Studies", in which knowledge about adult, children's and youth literature was imparted. From 1955 onwards she organized “Philology Weeks” every year.

Theological courses

In 1939 she was commissioned to help plan the “Theological Laity Year” (today: Theological Courses ) and a year later to organize and supervise it. In 1950 she founded the "Correspondence Course for Theological Education". The success of the theological courses led to foundations in other countries: in Switzerland , Germany (Düsseldorf and from 1970 in Würzburg - Cathedral School Würzburg ), in Italy (Brixen), in Hungary and East Germany . A particularly important event for the development of their courses was the Second Vatican Council , the results of which were immediately reflected in the courses. From 1967 to 1968 Margarete Schmid was a member of the Theological Commission of the Vienna Synod , whose decisions were presented in panel discussions during the theological courses . She developed several models of Catholic adult education : 1970 the "Faith Course" (built on salvation history ); 1975 “Faith Seminar” (based on the Creed ); 1971 "Didactic course for multipliers"; 1979 “Getting older with faith, didactic course for multipliers”. Margarete Schmid led the theological courses until 1980.

She died on January 11, 1997 and was buried in the family grave at the Wilten cemetery in Innsbruck .

Quotes

"To enable laypeople to consider and justify their beliefs - at the level at which they are otherwise used to arguing and speaking."

literature

  • Margarete Schmid, On the text of my life, in: NOW. Women on the Gospel Path. Church - religious life - spiritual communities, year 1996, issue 3, 18-25.
  • Erhard Lesacher, "Like a weaver you have woven my life to the end" DDr. Margarete Schmid (1914–1997), in: Konstantia Auer, Manfred Scheuer (eds.), Strong Women in the Church of Tyrol. The silence is stronger than the lute, Ursprunger KEB, Innsbruck 2008, 143–155.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.theologischekurse.at/dl/nnmmJmoJLoJqx4KJKJKooolJMok/Margarete_Schmid_der_Text_meines_Lebens.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.theologischekurse.at/dl/nnmmJmoJLoJqx4KJKJKooolJMok/Margarete_Schmid_der_Text_meines_Lebens.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.theologischekurse.at/dl/nnmmJmoJLoJqx4KJKJKooolJMok/Margarete_Schmid_der_Text_meines_Lebens.pdf
  4. ↑ Erhard Lesacher, "Like a weaver you have woven my life to the end" DDr. Margarete Schmid (1914–1997), in: Konstantia Auer, Manfred Scheuer (eds.), Strong Women in the Church of Tyrol. The silence is stronger than the lute, Ursprunger KEB, Innsbruck 2008, 143–155, 155.
  5. ↑ Erhard Lesacher, "Like a weaver you have woven my life to the end" DDr. Margarete Schmid (1914–1997), in: Konstantia Auer, Manfred Scheuer (eds.), Strong Women in the Church of Tyrol. The silence is stronger than the lute, Ursprunger KEB, Innsbruck 2008, 143–155, 143.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1997
Place of death Vienna