Max Heimbucher

Max Heimbucher (born June 10, 1856 in Miesbach , Upper Bavaria ; † July 24, 1946 there ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and religious historian.

Live and act

Max Heimbucher was a priest of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising . From 1889 to 1891 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Munich , from 1891 to 1924 as a professor for apologetics and dogmatics at the University of Bamberg . In 1933 he held the titles of prelate, clergyman and secret councilor .

The orders and congregations of the Catholic Church are considered to be his most important publication and the standard work on this subject in German to this day . The first edition appeared in 2 volumes in 1896/97 (583 and 557 pages), a second edition in 1907/08 in 3 volumes (523, 629 and 635 pages) and a third, revised again by Heimbucher, edition 1933/34 in 2 Volumes (831 and 829 pages) published by Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn. A reprint was published in 1997. On an international scale, the "Heimbucher" has meanwhile been replaced by the 10-volume Italian Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione (DIP).

There is a Max-Heimbucher-Straße in Markt Holzkirchen near the place where Miesbach was born and died . Miesbach himself granted his son honorary citizenship in 1911 and later renamed the streets around his house where he was born in Heimbucherwinkl .

Works (selection)

• History of Miesbach, in memory of the years 1583 and 1783 . With 1 collotype: Miesbach in 1701. From Wening's Topography of Bavaria. Miesbach 1883 ( online [accessed on May 20, 2016] apostrophe in the original title).
• The Orders and Congregations of the Catholic Church . (Paderborn, 1st edition, 1897 (2 volumes); 2nd edition, 1907 (3 volumes); 3rd edition, 1933/34 (2 volumes); numerous reprints of the 3rd edition)
• The modern sects. What they are and want and how we should behave towards them . Klagenfurt 1926.
• The effects of holy communion . Regensburg 1894 (reprint 2010)
• The priest's library. At the same time a handbook of Catholic theological literature . Regensburg (several editions)
• The practical social activity of the priest or How can each priest contribute something to the solution of the social question? . Regensburg 1902.

literature

• Karl Suso Frank OFM: The “Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione” (DIP). Two reviews (In: Contributions to the recent history of orders and piety , edited by Eric W. Steinhauer, No. 3 (2005), esp. Pp. 13/14)

Web links

• Publications by Max Heimbucher in the Opac der Regesta Imperii