Nicholas Monzel
Nikolaus Monzel (born June 9, 1906 in Siegburg , † November 14, 1960 in Munich ) was a German theologian and sociologist .
Monzel received his doctorate (theology) at the University of Bonn in 1939 and completed his habilitation there in 1943. From 1948 he was Professor of Christian Social Studies and General Religious Sociology , first in Bonn and from 1955 at the University of Munich .
In his sociology of religion, Monzel leaned on Max Weber's methodology and compared Christian with non-Christian religions. With the help of ideal-typical assumptions, he investigated the relationships between religiously determined values and actual social behavior .
Works (selection)
- Law and Limits of a Sociology of the Church , Bottrop i. W., 1939
- Structural sociology and concept of the church , Bonn: Hanstein, 1939
- The relationship between the doctrine and the person of the founder in Christianity , Bonn: Schwippert, 1946
- What is Christian Social Doctrine? , Munich: Hueber, 1956
- The disciple of Christ and theology. Studies on the type and place of theological thinking in the system of science , Freiburg i. Br., Erich Wewel Verlag, 1961
- The Catholic Church in Social History , Munich, Vienna: Olzog, 1980
literature
- Wilhelm Korff: Monzel, Nikolaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 65 f. ( Digitized version ).
- H. Winkmann: Monzel, Nikolaus , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon . 2nd Edition. Volume 1. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, p. 298 f.
Web links
Commons : Nikolaus Monzel - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Nikolaus Monzel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monzel, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siegburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1960 |
| Place of death | Munich |