Michael Pfliegler

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Michael Pfliegler (born January 26, 1891 in Guttenbrunn , † October 11, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theologian and professor of moral and pastoral theology in Vienna. With Karl Rudolf he was the founder and spiritual leader of the Catholic youth movement Neuland . He tried to bring the church and socialism closer together . Many of his more than 30 books have been translated into foreign languages. Their total circulation reached more than half a million.

Life

Michael Pfliegler came from an impoverished, rural background. With the support of pastors and Auxiliary Bishop Marschall, he was finally able to do the Matura . From autumn 1911 he studied as an alumnus of the Vienna seminary at the theological faculty of the University of Vienna . He was ordained a priest on July 4, 1915 . Then he was a cooperator at the dean's parish Kirchberg am Wechsel until 1919 . In 1920 he was appointed general secretary of the “Christian-German Student Union”. A passionate article on pastoral care for workers in the “Klerus-Korrespondenzblatt” drew the attention of many to him, including Ignaz Seipel , who was then a moral theologian at the University of Vienna. This pushed Pfliegler to do a doctorate . He developed into the (Catholic) youth leader of Austria . In 1921 he founded the Catholic "Bund Neuland". On May 29, 1922 he obtained a doctorate in theology.

From 1924 to 1935 he was a professor of religion. Numerous publications on religious education belonged to this period . The value and experience thinking based on the phenomenology and value ethics of Max Scheler, as well as the adaptation of religious education to the new psychological insights ( Eduard Spranger , Charlotte Bühler ) was very intensely challenged by Pfliegler.

In 1924 he became a curator at the Peterskirche am Graben in Vienna. He stood up in pastoral care for the “unhoused” Christians and stood up for the “others”, the “remote and remote”, the “enemies” (such as the socialists). From 1925 he took a position on pastoral care in the big city in the magazine “Der Seelsorger” founded by Karl Rudolf . The problem area “Church and Workers” was one of his basic questions. His "Advent Lectures 1930" also became famous in this regard. His efforts for those outside the church were also expressed in the fact that he tried tirelessly to bring church and socialism together until the papal circular Quadragesimo anno stipulated the impossibility of being both Catholic and socialist.

In 1935 the habilitation followed at the University of Vienna for the subjects pastoral theology and catechetics by Theodor Innitzer (habilitation thesis: "Theology of religious education" ( Innsbruck 1935) and "The religious instruction ".) From July 1938 he was adjunct as a lecturer in the vacant chair for Moral theology in Vienna. In 1946 he finally became full professor of pastoral theology at the University of Vienna.

In 1961 he retired . He died on October 11, 1972 in Vienna - Döbling , Iglaseegasse 42.

Recognitions

Works

  • 1932: The educational situation . Innsbruck-Vienna
  • 1933: The Church and Socialism in the light of the "Quadragesimo anno" . Vienna
  • 1933: Holy Education . Salzburg
  • 1934: Sacred Education: Thoughts on Beings a. Way christl. Perfect Books of Spiritual Renewal. Blow, Salzburg
  • 1937: Before the decision: reflections on the emotional threat to people today . 2nd edition, Pustet, Salzburg 1936.
  • 1938: The right moment. Considerations at Crucial Times in the Educational Process . Salzburg
  • 1946: The religious situation , Graz / Salzburg / Vienna (Pustet) 1946
  • 1949: the way . Tyrolia (Catholic morality reading and workbook for teaching Catholic morality for the 7th grade of Austrian secondary schools)
  • 1952: The priestly existence. An attempt at a genetic type . innsbruck
  • 1955: The living Christian before the real world. Tyrolia
  • 1957: Church History Documents. Tyrolia
  • 1953: Priestly existence. Tyrolia
  • 1957: life, education, sacred education . Popular liturgical apostolate
  • 1960: The Right Moment Reflections on the Crucial Times in the Educational Process . Herder, Vienna
  • 1961: with Karl Rudolf: Custos, quid de nocte? . Herder
  • 1962: Pastoral Theology . Herder, Vienna 1962.
  • 1963: Anthology "Theology on Call"
  • 1964: The Archdiocese of Vienna's own masses . Herder
  • 1965: kerygmatics . Tyrolia
  • 1965: Mystery and Annunciation . Herder
  • 1967: Between the mouth of the child and the word of the bishop. Experienced serenity. With 6 drawings by Gottfried Pils , Experienced and Heard of cheerful kind, Styria, Graz Vienna Cologne 1967.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c baptismal register Pf. Ottenthal, tom. VI, fol. 228 ( facsimile )
personal data
SURNAME Pfliegler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic moral theologian and pastoral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Guttenbrunn
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1972
Place of death Vienna