Otto Weiß (historian, 1934)

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Otto Weiß (born September 15, 1934 in Ulm ; † August 3, 2017 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was a German historian .

Live and act

After visiting the Humanistic Gymnasium in Gunzburg and in Forchheim joined Otto Weiss in 1954 in the novitiate of the Redemptorists in Gars am Inn ( Gars Abbey on). From 1955 he studied philosophy, theology and history at the philosophical-theological college of the Redemptorists in Gars. In 1960 he was ordained a priest during the World Eucharistic Congress in Munich and then worked in the order as a journalist and educator. From 1965 he studied Bavarian history, medieval studies and moral theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1976 from Karl Bosl with a dissertation on the history of the Redemptorists in Bavaria (1790–1909). Weiß achieved his laicisation in 1971 and married. From 1971 to 1981 he worked intermittently as a religion teacher in Munich and at the same time as a freelancer for Bavarian Broadcasting (until 1979). From 1977 to 1979 he also held a teaching position in intellectual history at the University of Philosophy in Munich. He then worked from 1981 to 1986 as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome.

There, Weiss had been a member of the Historical Institute of the Redemptorists in Rome since 1987 and was also editor of the Spicilegium Historicum Congregationis SSmi Redemptoris magazine until 1999 . Since 2004 he has served as the coordinator and editor of the multi-volume history of the Redemptorist Congregation . In 2009 he was named a Redemptorist Oblate.

Weiß lived in Vienna and Grafing near Munich , most recently in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, and was the author of numerous publications on the German-Italian history of perception and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, he dealt with figures from the Redemptorist Order ( Clemens Maria Hofbauer , Kaspar Stanggassinger ), Catholic Romanticism and Ultramontanism (especially the question of mysticism in this context: Louise Beck ) as well as with the modernism crisis and cultural Catholicism ( Carl Muth ). He wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Redemptorists in Bavaria (1790–1909). A contribution to the history of ultramontanism . EOS, St. Ottilien 1983, ISBN 3-88096-122-0 .
  • Do what the day calls for. The life of Father Kaspar Stangassinger . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988; 2nd edition 1989, ISBN 3-451-21248-X .
  • Modernism in Germany. A contribution to the history of theology . Pustet, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7917-1478-3 .
  • Modernism and anti-modernism in the Dominican order. At the same time a contribution to the “Sodalitium Pianum”. Pustet, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7917-1619-0 .
  • German or Roman morality? - or: The dispute over Alfonso Liguori. A contribution to the conflict between Romanism and Germanism in the 19th century . Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7917-1744-8 .
  • Klemens Maria Hofbauer and his biographers. A reception story . Collegium A. Alfonsi de Urbe, Rome 2001.
  • Cultures, mentalities, myths. On the theological and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries . Edited by Hubert Wolf, Manfred Weitlauff and Claus Arnold [Festschrift for the 70th birthday]. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70119-3 . online .
  • Right-wing Catholicism in the First Republic. On the world of ideas of the Austrian cultural Catholics 1918–1934 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55639-9 .
  • Encounters with Klemens Maria Hofbauer (1751–1820) . Pustet, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7917-2179-8 .
  • Instructions from the beyond? The influence of mystical phenomena on the leadership of orders and churches in the 19th century . Pustet, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2389-1 .
  • The first of all Christians. On the German reception of Pascal from Friedrich Nietzsche to Hans Urs von Balthasar . Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2461-4 .
  • Cultural Catholicism. Catholics on their way to German culture 1900–1933 . Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2615-1 ; E-book: ISBN 978-3-7917-7049-9 .
  • Stations of my life. Three biographical sketches . Edition Tandem, Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902932-34-1 . on-line
  • The power of the Seer from Altötting. Belief in ghosts in 19th century Catholicism . Topos, Kevelaer 2015, ISBN 978-3-8367-1054-1 .
  • Enlightenment - Modernism - Postmodernism. The struggle of Catholic theology for a contemporary responsibility for faith . Pustet, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2876-6 .

Editorships

  • Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger (1871–1899). In personal testimonies and in the judgment of his contemporaries. Collegium S. Alfonsi de Urbe, Rome 1995.
  • The recezione del pensiero alfonsiano nella Chiesa. Atti del Congresso in occasione del terzo centenario della nascita di S. Alfonso Maria de Liguori, Roma 5-7 March 1997. Collegium S. Alfonsi der Urbe, Rome 1998.
  • with Michele Nicoletti : Il modernismo in Italia e in Germania nel contesto europeo . Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna 2010, ISBN 978-88-15-13720-3 .
  • Storia della Congregazione del Santissimo Redentore. II. Prima espansione (1793-1855). Vol. 1: Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris. Rome 2010; Vol. 2: Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris. Rome 2012.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Bernhard Josef Stalla, Gerhard Stalla (ed.): Books and authors between Inn and Salzach. Biographies and bibliography on the literature of a cultural region. Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, p. 489.
  2. ^ Rudolf Neumaier: Otto Weiss died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 10, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Obituary Dr. Otto Weiß on redemptoristen.com , accessed on August 11, 2017
  4. ↑ Otto Weiß died on sueddeutsche.de on August 10, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017
  5. ^ Hermann-Josef Reudenbach: Germany and Italy / Italy and Germany in the work of Otto white. In: Dominik Burkard , Nicole Priesching (ed.): Catholics in the long 19th century. Actors - cultures - mentalities. Otto Weiß on his 80th birthday. Pustet, Regensburg 2014, pp. 243–245.
personal data
SURNAME White, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2017
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee