Michael Spitz

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Michael Spitz SDB (born October 8, 1937 in Gnadenberg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate ; † April 14, 2008 in Ensdorf ) was a German religious priest and religious educator .

Life

Gnadenberg monastery mill

The nephew of the Eichstatt exegete and homiletist Josef Kurzinger grew up together with five siblings as a farmer and miller's son in the monastery mill in Gnadenberg . After completing primary school, he did an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in the Salesianum in Munich, which he successfully completed in 1956. He then moved to the Salesian Progymnasium in Buxheim . He decided to become a Salesian of Don Bosco , entered the novitiate in Ensdorf in 1960 and took his first religious vows there on August 15, 1961 . After attending grammar school until 1964, his second professorship in the same year and a practical pedagogical assignment in Kempten from 1964 to 1966, he began studying philosophy and theology in Benediktbeuern . In 1967 he made his perpetual profession. He spent the academic year 1967/68 at the University of Regensburg with simultaneous assistance in the apprentice dormitory there. After completing theological studies he received in the June 29, 1971 Benediktbeuern by the Augsburg Bishop Josef Stimpfle the priesthood .

After educational activities in St. Josefsheim in Bamberg and as a director of studies in the student dormitory in Augsburg , he devoted himself from 1973 to in-depth studies in catechetics and homiletics at the University of Munich . In 1983 he received his doctorate in theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg . The doctoral supervisor was the religious educator Alfred Läpple . Even before 1983 he was teaching homiletics at the Salesian School of Order in Benediktbeuern and was involved in the Don Bosco youth pastoral institute founded in 1978 . In the context of his subsequent activity as a lecturer for religious education and homiletics in Benediktbeuern, he was also head of the Institute for Religious Education and the internship office. At the same time he was pastoral director of the Benediktbeurer branch for years.

After working at the Religious College, he moved to the Provincial House in Munich as director in 1991 and stayed there after his term of office, but continued to teach in Benediktbeuern for a long time and was a member of the Provincial Council from 1999 to 2002. For health reasons he lived from 2005 in the branch of the Salesians Don Bosco in the monastery of Ensdorf .

Publications

  • The curriculum in the Age of Enlightenment and the present. A contribution to the religious education discussion. Sankt Ottilien 1986 (Diss. Salzburg 1983/84)
  • (Ed.): Don Bosco, one who sticks to youth. Don Bosco catechesis. Munich, Don-Bosco-Verlag Munich 1988

literature

  • Siegfried Schäffler (Ed.), Father Dr. Michael Spitz, Salesian Don Bosco (1937-2008) , FE-Verlag Kisslegg 2008 (without ISBN)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of German Teaching and Research Centers: Research Centers, Volume 1, 1989, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Spitz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious priest and religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Gnadenberg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2008
Place of death Ensdorf