Sebastian Killermann

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Matthias Sebastian Killermann (born December 21, 1870 in Landshut ; † April 4, 1956 in Regensburg ) was a Bavarian, German Catholic clergyman and mycologist . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is “ Killerm. ".

Live and act

Killermann was born on December 21, 1870 in Landshut as the son of a large farming family. He attended the grammar schools of Landshut and Straubing, which he graduated from high school in 1890. He then studied theology and natural sciences at the University of Munich and received his doctorate after just three years with the anthropologist Johannes Ranke . This was followed by a move to the Regensburg seminary, where he was ordained a priest in the summer of 1895 by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey . This was followed by years of pastoral care as a priest and further training or the completion of the examination for the “higher teaching post”.
In 1901 he was appointed associate professor for anthropology, zoology and botany at the Royal Bavarian Lyceum in Regensburg. Like all Bavarian high schools, the one in Regensburg was converted into a philosophy-theological college in 1923 , where Killermann taught until his retirement in March 1936.

An extraordinary activity as an expert witnessed Killermann in connection with the episcopal investigations of the events around the so-called "stigmatization" of Therese Neumann . In 1927 and 1928 he visited Therese Neumann in person several times to investigate the cause of her bleeding. He closes his critical research report of March 1928 about his observations at Neumann "with a great doubt".

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in March 1933, like all other professors at the Regensburg University, he signed the so-called declaration of professors at German universities and colleges on Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state on November 11, 1933 .

Killermann undertook various research trips, including to Scandinavia (1901), Corsica (1905), Palestine (1907) and to southern and south-eastern Europe. In 1933 - as the successor to Ludwig Spilger , who held the office from 1930 after the death of Hans Kniep - he was elected first chairman of the German Society for Mushroom Science and tried to reorganize it after the Second World War . His main mycological areas of work were Regensburg local floristry and the systematics of mushrooms. He mainly published works on Thelephoraceae , Hydnaceae and Polyporaceae . For the 6th volume of the work "Natural Plant Families" edited by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl , Killermann took over the processing of the Hymenomycetes . He also dealt with the history of mycology in several articles.

Honors

In 1954, Killermann received the Albertus Magnus Medal for Art and Science from the city of Regensburg. The city of Regensburg also honored Killermann posthumously during the term of office of CSU Mayor Hans Herrmann by designating a street with his name. In 2011 he was brought up for discussion by the teaching staff of a Regensburg elementary school, which is located on Killermannstrasse, as the namesake for the new school building, which will soon be completed. After it became known that Killermann supported the “Confession of Adolf Hitler”, this proposal petered out.

Fonts

  • About the sutura palatina transversa and a participation of vomer in the formation of the palate surface in the human skull. 1 p., 32 p., Dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the University of Munich. Archive for Anthropology 22 (4), 1894.
  • The ornithology of Albertus Magnus (1207–1280) , Regensburg Publishing House 1910.
  • The miniatures in the prayer book of Albrecht V of Bavaria (1574). A contribution to the history of insect and plant science (= Studies on German Art History 140), Heitz, Strasbourg 1911.
  • The flowers of the holy land. botanical selection of a spring trip through Syria a. Palestine. Leipzig 1916.
  • The flowers of the holy land. Botanical selection of a spring trip through Syria and Palestine; with a determination table as well as 5 plates and 60 illustrations in the text. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1917.
  • Mushrooms from Bavaria. Critical studies, especially on M. Britzelmayr, location information, etc. (Short) identification tables: Hymenomycetes , 7 parts, Verlag der Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1922–1940.
  • Prehistory and Race Studies of Man. The book of nature . Regensburg publishing house, 1931.
  • Felix Fabri, O. Pr., Journey to the Holy Land 1483, especially appreciated from the naturalistic side. In: Das Heilige Land year 77/78, 1933/34, pp. 80–86, 119–127.
  • Diluvial mushroom remains from Ehringsdorf . In: Reports of the German Botanical Society; Volume 56, 1939, pp. 503-508.
  • Jakob Christian Schaeffer's paper experiments 1765-1772. In: Sankt Wiborada 3, 1936, pp. 93-96.
  • The plants depicted in the illuminated Dioscurides manuscripts. Regensburg 1950.

literature

  • Georg Necker: Sebastian Killermann (1870-1956). Professor at the Phil.-Theol. University of Regensburg , in: Georg Schwaiger (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg 23/24, Regensburg 1989, pp. 955–958
  • Heinrich Dörfelt, Heike Heklau: The history of mycology. Einhorn, Eduard Dietenberger, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1998.
  • Erika Bosl: Killermann, Mathias Sebastian. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Supplementary volume. 1000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1153-9 , p. 85 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Necker: Sebastian Killermann (1870-1956). Professor at the Phil.-Theol. University of Regensburg , in: Georg Schwaiger (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg 23/24, Regensburg 1989, pp. 955–958. All biographical information comes from it.
  2. ^ Karl Hausberger : The Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg in the time of National Socialism. A first inventory , in: Paul Mai (ed.): Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg Volume 40 , Regensburg 2006, pp. 389-411, here 390. ISSN  0522-6619 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Killermann: Report on my observation to Therese Neumann in Konnersreuth 22/23. III. 1928 , Regensburg 1928, p. 8.
  4. ^ German Josef Krieglsteiner : 1921–1996. 75 years of the German Society for Mycology. In: Journal of Mycology. Vol. 62 (1996), H. 2, pp. 99-146.
  5. ^ Report from regensburg-digital of April 29, 2011 (accessed on October 23, 2011) [1]
personal data
SURNAME Killermann, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Killermann, Matthias Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1956
Place of death regensburg