Nivard Schlögl

Nivard Schlögl OCist (born June 4, 1864 in Gaaden near Mödling , † June 25, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian biblical scholar .

Bust of P. Nivard Schlögl in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey Library

Life

Schlögl joined the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in 1884 and was given the monastery name Nivard . He was ordained a priest in 1889 and appointed novice master in 1890 . In 1894 he was at the University of Vienna Dr. theol. obtained his doctorate and initially lectured from 1896 to 1908 as a professor of the Old Testament at the Institutum Theologicum in Heiligenkreuz . In 1907 he was appointed to the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he was Professor of the Old Testament until 1936. Schlögl's life's work was based on the controversial conjectural criticism and biblical metrics, ie he was convinced that the Bible was written in rhythmic units and that modern translations of the Holy Scriptures should also take this into account.

His Bible translations, written with this in mind, were placed on the list of banned books by the Vatican on January 16, 1922 . Schlögl's research career came to an end, although he was still teaching biblical languages ​​at the university and also worked as a doctoral supervisor (often together with his friend and colleague Theodor Innitzer ). He died in 1939.

In 1909, Schlögl was a founding member of the Catholic student association K.Ö.HV Franco-Bavaria Vienna (since 1933 in the Austrian Cartell Association (ÖCV) ) and was instrumental in the founding of many Catholic student associations , but never entered the territory of party politics. Schlögl was an advocate of racial anti-Semitism : Together with Engelbert Dollfuss , who later became Federal Chancellor and founder of the Austro-Fascist corporate state , he unsuccessfully submitted a motion at the General Assembly of the Cartell Association in 1920 that members of the associations up to the generation of their grandparents should not have any direct Jewish relatives, Jews were to be denied membership by means of an Aryan paragraph .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The conjectural criticism was not originally developed by Schlögl. The research approach can also be found in Schlögl's contemporary Vinzenz Zapletal OP ; Zapletal was also examined by the Index Congregation but not indicated.
2. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland. History and work of the CV in Austria. Lahn-Verlag, Kevelaer 2006. 493.

literature

• Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr : Formative professors in the development of theological teaching in the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz 1802-2002 . Bernardus, Langwaden 2004, ISBN 3-937634-08-8
• Judith Schepers: Documentation of the Roman censorship proceedings against German-language publications (1893-1922), in: Hubert Wolf , Judith Schepers (ed.), "In wilder unbridled hunt for new things". 100 years of modernism and anti-modernism in the Catholic Church (Paderborn 2009), pp. 625–631, ISBN 978-3-506-76511-6
• F. Röhrig :  Schlögl P. Nivard (Johann). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 211 f. (Direct links on p. 211 , p. 212 ).
• Johannes Madey:  SCHLÖGL, Nivard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 301-302.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nivard Schlögl in the catalog of the German National Library