Philipp Anton Hedderich

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Philipp Anton Hedderich OFM (born November 4, 1743 in Bodenheim as Franz Anton Hedderich ; † August 20, 1808 in Düsseldorf ), pseudonym Arminius Seld , was an important canon and lawyer for the Church with offices in Cologne , Trier and Bonn as well as one of the most important scholar on the teaching staff of the Düsseldorf Law Academy for Church Law and Church History .

Live and act

Franz Anton Hedderich comes from the wine-growing village of Bodenheim south of Mainz . His father was Franz Sebastian Hedderich (1706–1761), tenant of the Lords of Breidenbach , his mother Anna (1712–1772), née Pfarr. The boy attended the Jesuit school in Mainz and, when he moved to Cologne, where he first studied philosophy for two years and then theology and jurisprudence for four years , he entered the Franciscan order and was given the name of the order Philipp . He then taught at the University of Cologne . During his time in Cologne - on April 8, 1766 - Hedderich publicly defended the dogmas of Johannes Duns Scotus .

In 1771 he was transferred to Trier, where he continued his legal studies for three years, first with Frank (constitutional law), then with Hellbronn ( pandects ) and with Neller ( canon law). In 1774 this was followed by a call to the Electoral Cologne Academy in Bonn , which at that time was still an independent theological faculty, as a teacher in canon law. Hedderich supported the inner-Catholic reform movement and soon he acquired the reputation of the leading Febronian and episcopalist who, along with Franz Oberthür , Thaddäus Anton Dereser and others, made Bonn a nucleus of the Enlightenment and anti-Curia tendencies. In 1778 he completed his studies there with a doctorate to become Dr. theol. from, the following year he received the honorary title of Real Spiritual Counselor at the court of Archbishop Maximilian Friedrichs .

Also in 1779 began the disputes with the cathedral chapter in Cologne , which accused him of undermining the power of the Pope and false statements to dispense with marriage . Two smaller of his writings came on the index . The cathedral chapter demanded his dismissal, the Pope also demanded his removal from teaching and in the summer of 1783 refused to give the newly founded Bonn Academy her license to practice medicine . Hedderich was still covered by Maximilian Friedrich. In 1786 he accepted the call to Mainz, but stayed after the delivery of his dismissal permit on March 2, after Bonn had been promoted to university. In 1788 he obtained his doctorate iuris utriusque . At the same time he published his “Dissertatio de iuribus eclesiae Germanicae in Conventu Emsano explicatis”. Shortly afterwards in the winter of 1788/89 he was appointed rector of the university. In 1790, the cathedral chapter filed a complaint with the electoral archbishop Maximilian Franz of Austria , but this had no consequences.

Hedderich remained connected to the Franciscans throughout his life. In 1789 he was named as a Guardian .

When the French moved in in 1794, Hedderich first moved to the opposite side of the Rhine to Honnef , and in 1796 to Wittlich . There his main work "Elementa iuris canonici, quartor in partes divisa ad statum ecclesiarum Germaniae praecique esslesiae Coloniensies adcommodata" was created, where he noted the current state of canon law and which was also placed on the index. All his life he tried to reach an understanding in the sense of "concordia sacerdotii et imperii".

Maximilian Joseph appointed him to the Düsseldorf Law Academy on August 7, 1803, where he began lecturing on canon law on November 14. At that time, the Franciscan monastery in Düsseldorf was dissolved in the course of secularization , and Hedderich moved into quarters in the former monastery. In 1804, his employer reached an agreement with him to grant him an immediate additional annuity of 100 guilders after his death when he left his extensive library . In addition to the four rooms in the former Franciscan monastery at the Maxkirche, from 1805 he received another for his library.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to other information (Paul Toennies and Heino Pfannenschmid): November 7, 1744
  2. ↑ Rooms 70–73 as an apartment, room 69 as a library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médialspau, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 425-426 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Hedderich, Philipp Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arminius Seld (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon and lawyer as well as scholar at the Düsseldorf Law Academy
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenheim
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1808
Place of death Dusseldorf