Max Lossen

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Max Lossen (born April 25, 1842 in Emmershausen , † January 5, 1898 in Munich ) was a German historian and founder of student associations .

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" Arminia in the summer semester 1864"

top row, second from left: Max Lossen, founder of K.St.V. Arminia

Family background

Lossen comes from a Westphalian family that has emerged particularly in the mining and metallurgical industry and has produced various well-known members (see NDB Volume 15, p. 200ff). His father was the tenant of a steel mill in Emmershausen. However, Lossen lost both parents at the age of six and was taken in with his four siblings by a widowed uncle who was a doctor in Kreuznach .

Member of the Aenania

1861 was Lossen on Kreuznacher Gymnasium final examination and turned in the same year after Munich to there jurisprudence to study. In addition, he documented history, which increasingly aroused his interest, so that he immediately gave up law studies. In Munich Lossen joined the Aenania and held the position of senior there.

Foundation of the K.St.V. Arminia

Lossen then founded the K.St.V. in competition with Bavaria on November 6, 1863. Arminia , one of the most important Catholic corporations ever. In contrast to other Catholic "corporations", Lossen founded Arminia not as a theologian wreath , but from the beginning as a lay movement in the academic world that encompasses all faculties . At the same time, he avowedly opposed the establishment of a Catholic university on the model of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium . Lossen postulated that it was “actually even more important because it is closer” that the Catholic side look after the existing German universities . The founding of Arminia was thus also directed against the resolutions of the Aachen General Assembly of Catholic Associations in Germany in 1862. These envisaged the establishment of a Catholic university based on the model of Leo. They had already started to raise funds for this project.

Foundation of the KV

Lossen will also have a decisive influence on the founding of the two large Catholic corporation associations, the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV) and the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV). After Georg von Hertling gave a speech on the Catholic Day in 1863 on the principles of Catholic corporations, efforts were made to unite all Catholic corporations in a cartel . In 1864 the Würzburger Bund was founded, which was joined by a large number of Catholic corporations, including Arminia. When it came to the inclusion of Bavaria, there was a dispute between Arminia and Bavaria, which resulted in the split of the Würzburg Federation into the KV and the CV. It has not been conclusively clarified whether the question of wearing colors was decisive or whether personal reasons played a role.

Foundation of the AKStV Cheruskia

In the course of the First Vatican Council in 1870/71, a dispute arose over the dogma of infallibility. Lossen joined the Old Catholic Church and therefore had to leave Arminia with a number of like-minded people after he was narrowly defeated in the vote on whether to adhere to the denominational principle . In 1882, four students founded the colored Old Catholic Student Association AKStV Cheruskia in Bonn with the support of the dimitted Lossen . The name Cheruskia was chosen by Lossen as a historian with several allusions: The troop leader (i.e. Lossen, the former senior), who was also diminished by the Romans (i.e. the Armines loyal to Rome) (i.e. Lossen, the former senior), had Arminius (i.e. Lossen, founder of Arminia) after his dismissal led a revolt of the Cherusci against the Romans and defeated them in the Varus Battle . The Cheruskia student association dissolved in 1929, but was re-established on Pentecost Sunday 2005 in Mannheim-Waldhof by Ralf Hagen and Lukas Karitnigg.

Professional background

In 1865 Lossen returned to Munich , where he became a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then took over the family's tobacco shop, but sold it in 1870 and continued his historical work as a private scholar . In 1881 Lossen became secretary of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 1885 he was their extraordinary member and since 1889 their full member.

meaning

The influence of Losen on the development of the Catholic corporation in its concrete form was significant. Along with Georg von Hertling, he was one of the most influential figures of the early period - right up to his old Catholic foundation, Cheruskia.

Works

Max Lossen, The Cologne War 1: Prehistory 1561-1581, Gotha 1882; 2: 1582-1586, ibid. 1887, passim

literature

  • Hans-Gerd H. Jauch , Historikergestalten der Arminia, in: K.St.V. Arminia 1863-1988, Bonn 1988
  • Daniel Koschera: "A new association of Catholic students has recently formed" - Bavaria and the Bonn Union 1844 - 1867: A contribution to the early days of Catholic student associations in Germany, master's thesis at the historical seminar of the University of Cologne, 2004
  • Johann FriedrichMax Lossen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 84 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Friedrich: Max Lossen (obituary) . In: Session reports of the philosophical-philological and historical classes of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . First volume, 1898, p. 337–340 ( online [PDF; accessed March 8, 2017]).

Web links

Wikisource: Max Lossen  - Sources and full texts