Otto Gilg

Otto Gilg (born October 8, 1891 in Olten , † February 2, 1976 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss Christian Catholic clergyman and church historian .

Life

Otto Gilg was a son of the Christian Catholic pastor Karl Gilg and Laure geb. Soutter. His older brother Arnold (* 1887; † 1967) was also a Christian Catholic clergyman and professor at the Christian Catholic theological faculty of the University of Bern .

He graduated from high school in Zurich before studying theology in Bern and Marburg from 1910 to 1915 . In 1914 he received by Bishop Edward Herzog , the priesthood and was then as vicar in St. Gallen operates. In 1915 he was appointed parish administrator in Hellikon. From 1916 to 1961 he was pastor of the Christian Catholic parish in Lucerne.

Otto Gilg wrote numerous articles of historical, spiritual and ecumenical content in ecclesiastical periodicals, some of which he edited for decades. From 1938 to 1961 he was President of the Christian Catholic Pastoral Conference . He became known beyond his own church as the author of the work Christkatholizismus in Luzern (1946), which placed the development of the congregation in a wider spiritual-historical context. In 1951 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. theol. Hc) from the University of Basel .

Otto Gilg married Maria Schenker from Lucerne in 1919.

Works

• The fair. A representation of their historical development and their religious content. Olten 1923.
• Christian Catholicism and Protestantism. Bern 1928.
• From medieval women's pastoral care. Bern 1939.
• Christian Catholicism in Lucerne. In: Lucerne, History and Culture. Lucerne 1946.

literature

• Urs Küry : The Old Catholic Church. Their history, their teaching, their concerns (= The Churches of the World, Volume 3). 3rd edition 1982, ISBN 3-7715-0190-3 , pp. 520 f.

Web links

• Urs von Arx : Gilg, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .