Paul Wilhelm von Keppler

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Paul Wilhelm von Keppler (1852–1926)

Paul Wilhelm Keppler , from 1899 by Keppler , (born September 28, 1852 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † July 16, 1926 in Rottenburg am Neckar ) was a German Catholic theologian and 6th bishop of the Rottenburg diocese .

Life

Coat of arms and inscription on Keppler's birthplace in Schwäbisch Gmünd

Keppler was ordained a priest on August 2, 1874 . He studied Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1883. He was a member of the Guelfia theological society in Tübingen. In 1883 he was appointed professor for the New Testament in Tübingen, succeeding Paul Schanz . The cast is viewed critically, as he showed far greater interest in homiletics and church art than in New Testament exegesis. In 1889 he changed subjects and became professor for moral and pastoral theology there. From 1894 to 1898 he taught moral theology at the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg .

In 1898 he was appointed bishop of the Rottenburg diocese. The episcopal ordination received his Archbishop Thomas Nörber on 18 January 1899. force of his episcopacy was Keppler to 1906 Member of the Second, from 1906 to 1918 a member of the First Chamber of the Württemberg Parliament, however, this mandate was always rest. Keppler often stayed at Strasbourg Castle . Keppler was friends with the architect Josef Cades and, as chairman of the diocese's art association, was one of the most influential diocesan art experts.

The most violent phase of the internal church dispute over “ modernism ” and “ anti-modernism ” fell during Keppler's term of office . Keppler, originally open to reforms and friends of Franz Xaver Kraus as a professor , has become a spokesman for anti-modernism in the German episcopate since his widely acclaimed speech, True and False Reform (December 1902). The close exchange with the anti-Semitic writer and cultural critic Julius Langbehn apparently played an essential role in this turn . In 1910 Keppler wrote the pastoral letter of the German bishops on the anti-modernist oath of Pius X.

Since 1878 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV , later he also became an honorary member of the student association AV Cheruskia Tübingen . Of the 80 churches built during his episcopal tenure, he had consecrated 72 himself . The church of St. Martin in Kirchberg an der Iller , which was built in 1900 and has been left unchanged since then, still shows his view of the new church and religious belief.

Occasionally Keppler expressed himself in an anti-Semitic way, after a visit to the Holy Land he was surprised that the Jews living there were “part of the same people” “ who sit outside of Palestine like a stake in the flesh of the Christian peoples , sucking their blood , she enslaved [...] with the reed scepter of poison-soaked feathers , poisoned the public wells of education and morality by throwing disgusting and purulent substances "(the latter an allusion to the old slander of Jews as well poisoners ).

His final resting place he found in the Episcopal crypt of the cemetery church Sülchen .

Honors

  • 1899 Commentary Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal title of nobility
  • His hometown Schwäbisch Gmünd granted him honorary citizenship in 1924, “for the 25th anniversary of the bishop and 50th anniversary of the priest in recognition of his services as regional bishop, scholar and writer”
  • In the same year he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Rottenburg am Neckar
  • The Paul Wilhelm von Keppler Foundation is named after him

Works

Our Lord Consolation , Freiburg im Breisgau 1887 (title page)
  • Our Lord Consolation , Freiburg im Breisgau 1887
  • Württemberg's ecclesiastical art antiquities. 1888.
  • Hiking trips and pilgrimages in the Orient. 1894, 10th edition 1922.
  • From art and life. 1905, 8th edition 1923.
  • More joy. 1909; 184-187. Thousand 1934.
  • School of suffering. 1914, 61–71. Thousand 1923.
  • Our dead heroes and their last will. 1915.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Wilhelm von Keppler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Paul Wilhelm von Keppler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1901 he had reserved the imprimatur ( digitized version ) of Albert Ehrhard's book, The Catholicism and the Twentieth Century in the Light of the Church's Development in Modern Times .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Baum, NDB.
  3. ^ Architecture and design of St. Martin: The religious image and the mystery of the incarnation. by Diocesan master builder Heiner Giese, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, essay within the writing Katholische Kirchengemeinde Kirchberg an der Iller (publisher), 100 years parish church St. Martinus in Kirchberg an der Iller, Memminger Medien Zentrum 2001
  4. ^ Keppler: Hiking trips and pilgrimages in the Orient . 5th edition Freiburg im Breisgau 1905, p. 310 Internet Archive .
  5. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907 , p. 33.
  6. ↑ cit. after The honorary citizens of the city in 800 years city of Schwäbisch Gmünd , Schwäbisch Gmünd 1962.
  7. ^ Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Gmünd, local council minutes of December 9, 1924.
predecessor Office successor
Franz Xaver von Linsenmann Bishop of Rottenburg
1898–1926 		Joannes Baptista Sproll
personal data
SURNAME Keppler, Paul Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keppler, Paul Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic bishop and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1926
Place of death Rottenburg am Neckar