Philipp Funk

Philipp Funk (born June 26, 1884 in Wasseralfingen near Aalen ; † January 14, 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian and publicist .

Live and act

Philipp Funk was born as the son of the iron founder Georg Funk and the Philippine Funk, b. Hauser, born. Already at the age of 17 he was interested in genealogy and traced the artisan families Funk and Hauser back to the beginning of the 17th century. From 1896 he attended the Latin school in Rottenburg am Neckar and from 1899 the grammar school in Ehingen , where he graduated from high school in 1903 . In the same year he entered the theologenkonvikt Wilhelmsstift and began to study philosophy , history , art history and Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen . There was one among others, Georg von Below to his academic teachers. Together with Eugen Mack, Joseph Eberle , Alfons Heilmann and Hermann Hefele, Funk founded the scholarly theologian circle Der Grail (1905) and later he co-founded a socio-political study circle. He was a member of the Guelfia Theological Society . In 1907 he passed the theological state examination and entered the Rottenburg seminary on October 8th . As a student he worked on the journal of the Reform Catholicism Renaissance : In an article from April 1906 (Volume 7, 1906, pp. 202-211) he criticized the scientific method of the Tübingen exegete Johannes Evangelist von Belser (1850-1916). In another article on Heinrich Günter 's studies of legends , he expressed doubts about the historicity of the Gospel of John and spoke of “legends” in the Holy Scriptures (Volume 7, 1906, pp. 645–654, 710–717). As a result, he was postponed for a year from receiving orders and temporarily resigned from the seminary at the end of 1907.

He continued his history studies in Tübingen and Munich and received his doctorate in Tübingen in July 1908 under the supervision of Walter Goetz with a thesis on Jakob von Vitry as a Dr. phil. On November 26, 1908, he re-entered the Rottenburg seminary. After just a month, he left it on December 20th, but finally after refusing to formally recognize the Pascendi encyclical . Studies and literary work in Tübingen followed. From March 1909 he worked as a research assistant for the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences on the historical atlas of Bavaria . From October 1, 1909 to September 30, 1910 he was assistant librarian at the Stettin City Library under Erwin Ackerknecht . From the beginning of 1910 he worked as editor and director of the modernist weekly Das Neue Jahrhundert , which appeared in 1915 and 1916 under the title Freie-Deutsche Blätter and then ceased to appear. In August 1910 he spoke as a representative of the German modernists at the World Congress for Free Christianity and Church Progress in Berlin, and also in Paris in 1913. His collection of essays, Von der Kirche des Geistes , published in 1913, was indexed in 1915 because of modernist tendencies .

Soon after the outbreak of the First World War , he reported as a medical soldier because an eye disease prevented him from doing arms service. He then worked as a war correspondent and from 1916 to 1917 at the Political Department of the General Government of Belgium in Brussels. From 1917 to 1918 he worked in the censorship department of the political department of the General Government in Bucharest. After the war he was editor for foreign and cultural policy at the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung from 1918 to 1919 , from 1920 to 1926 editor at Kösel-Pustet Munich, from 1921 to 1926 historical advisor to the Hochland magazine and from 1921 to 1924 editor of the literary supplement of the Bavarian newspaper Couriers . After his habilitation (1926) under the supervision of Heinrich Günter , he was briefly a private lecturer at the University of Munich , before moving to the State Academy in Braunsberg , East Prussia , as a full professor of literature and general history in the same year . There he learned the Polish language in order to study sources. He followed a call as a full professor of medieval and modern history ( concordat chair ) at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1929. In 1935 he was appointed head of the Reich Institute for Older German History and in 1936 in the General German Historians Committee .

Funk's main areas of work were the history of Western piety , the intellectual history of the 19th century, and state thinking in the Middle Ages. He was a member of the Baden Historical Commission, the Görres Society , for some time the BVP and the Kraus Society - Association for Religious and Cultural Progress in Catholicism in Munich (since 1910; named after Franz Xaver Kraus ). He died suddenly on January 14th, 1937 and was buried on January 17th in Wasseralfingen. His estate is kept in the archive of the University of Freiburg.

Works

• Jacob of Vitry. Life and Works (= contributions to the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Volume 3). Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1909; Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1908; Reprint: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3-8067-0103-2 .
• Paul Sabatier , Romolo Murri , AL Lilley and Philipp Funk: Modernism. 4 lectures [...] at the 5th World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress, Berlin 1910. Protestant Font Distribution, Berlin-Schöneberg 1911.
• From the Church of the Spirit. Religious essays in the sense of a modern Catholicism. Krausgesellschaft publishing house, Munich 1913.
• From Enlightenment to Romanticism. Studies on the prehistory of the Munich Romanticism. Kösel & Pustet, Munich 1925, habilitation thesis.
• Contributions to the biography of Joseph von Hohenzollern-Hechingen , Prince-Bishop of Ermland, 1808–1836. Ermländische Zeitungs- und Verlagsdr., Braunsberg 1927 (from: List of lectures at the State Academy in Braunsberg, summer 1927).

Editing

• Pier Candido Decembrio (author), Philipp Funk (translation and introduction): Life of Filippo Maria Visconti and deeds of Franzesco Sforza (= The Age of the Renaissance, Series 1, Volume 7). Diederichs, Jena 1913.
• Ignatius von Loyola (author), Philipp Funk (translation and introduction): Ignatius von Loyola (= classic of religion, volume 6). Protestant font distribution, Berlin-Schöneberg 1913.
• with Max Ettlinger and Friedrich Fuchs: Re-encounter of church and culture in Germany. A gift for Karl Muth . Kösel & Pustet, Munich 1927.
• Papacy, church reform, imperial church. Sebastian Merkle on his 70th birthday, Aug. 28, 1932. Bachem, Cologne 1932 (from: Historisches Jahrbuch, 1932).
• 1920–1926 literary advisor for Catholics in Germany. Kösel & Pustet, Munich.
• 1929–1936 Historical yearbook of the Görres Society . Volume 49-56

literature

• Wilhelm Zils (Hrsg.): Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Kellerer, Munich 1913, pp. 99-100.
• Wilhelm Kosch : Catholic Germany. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Volume 1, Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1933, Sp. 898-899.
• Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 4th edition 1931, col. 779.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who's it . 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935.
• Heinrich Finke : Philipp Funk †. In: Annual report of the Görres Society 1936. Cologne 1937, pp. 124–127.
• Johannes Spörl : Philipp Funk in memory . In: Historical yearbook. Volume 57, 1937, pp. 1–15 (with picture in front of p. 1; Neither the monograph on the state doctrines in the Middle Ages announced there nor the two-volume collection of Funk's essays under the title Heritage and Obligation has ever appeared. There was a catalog raisonné for the latter Funks with more than 350 numbers planned. His diaries, which he started when he was fifteen and continued until his death, have also not been published yet.)
• Clemens Bauer: Obituary. In: Historical magazine. Volume 156, Issue 1, 1937, pp. 221-222 ( online ).
• Clemens Bauer: Philipp Funk. An obituary. In: highlands. Volume 34, 1937, pp. 526–532 (also in: Clemens Bauer: Collected Essays on Economic and Social History. Vienna 1965, pp. 480–486).
• Gerhard Ritter : Philipp Funk †. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . New series, Volume 51 (of the whole series Volume 90), Karlsruhe 1938, pp. 127–129.
• Buchholz: Funk Philipp. In: Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography . Volume 1, Graefe and Unzer, Königsberg 1941, p. 202.
• Silvio Furlani: Funk, Philipp. In: Enciclopedia Cattolica. Volume 5, Città del Vaticano 1950, Col. 1808.
• August Hagen: Figures from Swabian Catholicism. Volume 3, Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1954, pp. 244–283 (with picture after p. 244).
• Gottfried Maron : Funk, Philipp. In: Kurt Galling : Religion in the past and present . 3rd edition, Volume 2, Tübingen 1958, Sp. 1179-1180.
• Johannes Spörl: Funk, Philipp. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd edition, Volume 4, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1960, Sp. 460-461.
• August Hagen: Reform Catholicism in the Diocese of Rottenburg (1902–1920). Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 97-100.
• Wilhelm Kosch and Eugen Kuri: Biographical State Handbook. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. Volume 1, Francke, Bern and Munich 1963, Col. 367-368.
• Helmut Bender and Klaus-Peter Wilke: Funk, Philipp. In: Wilhelm Kosch (founder): German Literature Lexicon . 3rd edition, Volume 5, Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7720-1265-5 , pp. 914-915.
• Joachim Köhler: Heinrich Günter's studies of legends. A contribution to the study of historical method. In: Georg Schwaiger (ed.): Historical criticism in theology. Contributions to their history (studies on theology and intellectual history of the nineteenth century, volume 32), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-525-87492-8 , pp. 307–337, especially pp. 316–317.
• Wolfgang Weber : Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The chair holder for history from the beginnings of the subject to 1970. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1984, ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 , p. 163; 2nd edition, Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1987.
• Ursula Wiggershaus-Müller: National Socialism and History. The history of the historical journal and the historical yearbook 1933–1945 (= series studies on contemporary history, volume 17). Kovač, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-86064-787-3 , pp. 90–91, also: Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1989.
• Otto Weiß : Modernism in Germany. A contribution to the history of theology. Pustet, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7917-1478-3 , pp. 348-376.
• Oskar Köhler : Funk, Philipp. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3rd edition, Volume 4, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-451-22004-0 , Sp. 239.
• Otto Weiß:  Funk, Philipp. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 586-593. (with a detailed list of literature and works).
• Karl Hausberger : Funk, Philipp. In: Religion Past and Present . 4th edition, Volume 3, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-16-146943-7 , Sp. 436-437.
• Hugo Ball : Letters 1904–1927. Part 1: 1904–1923 (= publications by the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt, Volume 81.1). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-701-2 , p. 374 ( online ).
• Bernd Moeller , Bruno Jahn (Hrsg.): German biographical encyclopedia of theology and the churches. Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11666-7 , pp. 466-467.
• Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 311.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 3, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25033-9 , ISBN 978-3-598-25033-0 , p. 639.
• Anke Hees: Funk, Philipp. In: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Volume 10, Saur, Zurich and Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-908255-10-9 , Sp. 313-314.

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Funk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ highlands. Monthly for all areas of knowledge, literature and art in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon.
2. ↑ Philipp Funk estate (approx. 1925–1942) .