Otto Miller (clergyman)

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Otto Franz Josef Miller (born July 27, 1879 in Mehlsack in Warmia , † January 4, 1958 in Wewelsburg near Paderborn ) was a German Catholic clergyman , writer and hymn poet .

Life

Otto Miller was born in the Braunsberg district in 1879 . In 1884 he moved to Braunsberg and attended the local high school. After graduation, he went to the Catholic seminary and received in Frombork on 8 February 1903, the ordination of Bishop Andreas Thiel . He then worked as a chaplain for Pastor Johannes Tietz in Neuteich . He received the “Stipendium Preuckianum” from the cathedral chapter in Frauenburg, which was donated by the Warmian canon Johann von Preuck in 1631 in his will to enable Warmian theologians to study in Rome. So he traveled to Rome in 1906 and studied philosophy and archeology there. In 1908 he returned to Warmia and was chaplain in Seeburg until 1909 . In 1909 he traveled to Italy and was pastor in Genoa . He studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau under the historian Heinrich Finke , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1912 with the dissertation of Dante's philosophy of history . In 1911 he was appointed second secretary of the bishop of Augustinus Bludau in Frauenburg and in 1922 he became the first secretary of the episcopal curia . At the same time he was from 1922 a country pastor in Thiergart (today Zwierzno) in the Deanery Marienburg .

He published in the Akademische Bonifatius-Korrespondenz and Ermländische Zeitung . After the NSDAP came to power in 1933 , he was banned from religious education. In the period from 1936 to 1938 he wrote several hymns for the hymn and prayer book Praise the Lord, published by Bishop Maximilian Kaller in 1938 . For health reasons, he retired in 1938 and lived until autumn 1944 as a chaplain with the Gray Sisters of St. Elisabeth in Neuhausen-Thiergart (today Gurjewsk ) near Königsberg (Prussia) .

Because of the oncoming front, he moved to Lower Silesia to a monastery in Glogau . After the end of the war, as part of the flight and expulsion of the Germans from Central and Eastern Europe, he came to an old people's home in Freystadt in Upper Palatinate in early 1945 . After eleven months, he was taken to a camp in Magdeburg in the Soviet zone of occupation in December 1946 . He managed to travel across the zone border and arrived at a monastery of the Gray Sisters in the city of Delmenhorst . He spent the last years of his life in Wewelsburg near Paderborn with the Katharin Sisters who looked after old people from Warmia in the St. Joseph retirement home.

Publications

  • Dante's philosophy of history . (also dissertation University of Freiburg) Franz Borgmeyer, 1912.
  • Mind and form . Kries, Mainz 1919.
  • The Warmia poet Julius Pohl . An essay. Bernhardt Teichert, Königsberg 1919.
  • with Eugen Brachvogel: Our hometown Bischofstein . Commemorative sheet for the people's vote on July 11, 1920 . Ed .: Heimatverein Bischofstein, Verlag Lange, Bischofstein 1920.
  • Franz von Sales and Franziska von Chantal . Study. 1920. In: Unser Ermlandbuch 15, pp. 25–52.
  • with Eugen Brachvogel, Franz Fleischer: Guide through Frauenburg . Alfred Seiffert, Elbing 1921.
  • Article: Bishop Augustinius Bludau . In: Warmia newspaper ; dated February 17, 1930.
  • The individualism as fate . Freiburg im Breisgau 1933 → new edition; Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1964.
  • with Hermann Ophoven (composer): You are the light. We are the flood . Choir score. Musikverlag zum Pelikan, Zurich 1961.
  • Where do you get your laughter from now? Recommendations of a free mind . Humor. Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1966.
  • with Ernst Laws (Ed.): When the thirst for God torments us. Prayed lyrics . Verlag Wort und Werk, Sankt Augustin 1979, ISBN 3-8050-0087-1 .
As a contributor
  • with Eugen Brachvogel: The cathedral in Frauenburg . Warmian newspaper and publishing house printer, Braunsberg 1934.
  • Georges Longhaye (author), Fanny Stein (translator): The sermon. Great masters and great laws . (La Prédication). Matthias Grünewald Publishing House, Mainz 1935.
As a hymn poet
  • In: Praise the Lord. Hymn and prayer book for the Diocese of Warmia :
    • The dawn is already rising . Singing in the morning. No. 230.
    • Another day is over . Singing in the evening. No. 232.
    • Another year flowed down . No. 109.
    • Across Warmia's green corridors . Warmia’s Sacred Heart Song. # 212.
    • Warmia greets you, eternal Rome . Warmian Pope Anthem. No. 234.
    • Closer, my God, to you . No. 224.

Measuring chants:

    • Christ, look, we kneel down . No. 36.
    • You are the sacrifice and the food . No. 43.
    • Silent, sacred hours of sacrifice . No. 29.
    • We come full of desire . No. 44.
    • Holy feast . No. 61.

literature

Otto Miller in; Eva-Maria Will: Closer, my God, to you . In: Warmia Book 2016 . Bischof-Maximilian-Kaller-Stiftung, Münster 2016, pp. 77–90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton Eichhorn : The Ermland bishop and cardinal Stanislaus Hosius , Volume 1: From his birth to the achievement of the cardinal dignity . Franz Kirchheim, Mainz 1854, pp. 238–239.
  2. ↑ Annette Griehl: Dr. Otto Miller In: History of Pieniężno - Sack of flour. www.ostpreussen.net, accessed on August 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Otto Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman, writer and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Sack of flour , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1958
Place of death Wewelsburg near Paderborn