Peter Browe

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Peter Browe (born December 22, 1876 in Konstanz , † May 18, 1949 in Baden-Baden ) was a German Jesuit and moral theologian .

Life

Peter Browe was born as the son of Constanze Browe. He studied at the University of Berlin Law ; in 1895 he entered the Jesuit order. During his training, he was sent to São Leopoldo (Brazil) for five years to teach mathematics there. He later studied theology in Valkenburg for four years . He was ordained a priest in 1912 .

During the First World War he was pastor of a division for two years . He then returned to the University of Berlin and continued his legal studies. He then served as a student chaplain at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He also taught moral theology at the training centers of his order in Maastricht , Valkenburg, Immensee and Frankfurt am Main , where he was a member of the faculty of the St. Georgen Institute .

During his time as a student chaplain, when he had access to Frankfurt libraries, he researched medieval moral and pastoral theology . Browe's contribution to the study of the Eucharist in the Middle Ages is considered particularly meritorious . His source-saturated and interdisciplinary cultural and liturgical-historical studies are now considered to be indispensable for dealing with this topic. Caused by the hostility to Jews in the Third Reich, he also dealt with the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the Middle Ages.

Peter Browe remained largely unknown within his order during his lifetime. Beyond the basic biographical framework and the testimony of a few students and friends, little is known about his life story even later. His personality is described as spiritually alert, silent and conscientious. He lived isolated and withdrawn, especially during the Nazi era. He conducted his historical research largely in private and thus did not go public much. According to contemporary witnesses, his teaching and research were characterized by closeness to life and clarity as well as “relentless honesty down to the problematic”. Browe died at the age of 75 in the Jesuit Vincentian House in Baden-Baden.

Works

  • De frequenti communione in ecclesia occidentali usque ad annum circa 1000 (Rome 1932)
  • Contributions to the sexual ethics of the Middle Ages (1932)
  • De ordaliis (two volumes; Rome 1932/1933)
  • Adoration of the Eucharist in the Middle Ages (1933)
  • On the story of emasculation. Religious and legal history studies (1936)
  • The Eucharistic Miracles of the Middle Ages (1938)
  • The frequent communion in the Middle Ages (1938)
  • The compulsory communion in the Middle Ages (1940)
  • The Mission to the Jews in the Middle Ages and the Popes (Rome 1942)

Thirty scattered essays by Browes on the Eucharistic story in the Middle Ages were compiled in an anthology in 2003 and re-edited:

  • The Eucharist in the Middle Ages. Research on liturgical history with the aim of cultural studies. With an introduction edited by Hubertus Lutterbach and Thomas Flammer. (Forgotten Theologians, Volume 1). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2003 (5th edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-6233-6 )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Browe: The Eucharist in the Middle Ages. Collection of articles, Münster 2003 (editor's blurb).
  2. ^ Hubertus Lutterbach: The biography of Peter Browe. In: Peter Browe: The Eucharist in the Middle Ages. Münster 2003 (Introduction by the editors, p. 2).
personal data
SURNAME Browe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1949
Place of death Baden-Baden