Philipp Müller (theologian, 1804)

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The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome was the last place where Ph. Müller worked.
Grave slab of Philipp Müller in the cemetery of Campo Santo in Rome (+1870)

Philipp Müller (born July 18, 1804 in Molsberg , † November 8, 1870 in Rome , ± Campo Santo Teutonico ) was a German Catholic theologian , church historian and Christian archaeologist . From 1864 to 1870 he was rector of the Arch Brotherhood at Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome. As the first “Görresian” on Campo Santo, he is considered a pioneer of science and a pioneer of Anton de Waals .

Life

Philipp Müller was born in 1804 as the son of simple farmers in Molsberg in the Westerwald. After his confirmation in 1811 he left his home town and moved to Speyer to live with his uncle, the architect Johann Philipp Mattlener . First he studied theology in Würzburg, then in Bonn. On March 1, 1828, he was ordained a priest in Limburg by Bishop Jakob Brand .

As a chaplain, he first went to Weißkirchen near Oberursel / Taunus. From 1830 he was employed as a pastor in the parish Spieß-Ems (today Bad Ems). In 1839 he went to the health resort of Weilbach near Flörsheim (near Frankfurt) as a pastor . In 1848 he became a pastor in Mengerskirchen in the Westerwald. In 1851 he resigned his parish and moved to a fraternity in Vézelise in the diocese of Nancy in France.

From 1855 to 1856 he was studying in Rome. From 1857 he worked as an assistant priest in Cologne, and in 1859 he moved to the baronial family from Romberg to Dortmund in the diocese of Paderborn as a chaplain . In 1863 he returned to Rome as a chaplain at Campo Santo Teutonico and worked there as rector from 1864 until his death in 1870.

He is buried in the cemetery of Campo Santo Teutonico in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Basilica.

Act as a writer

Philipp Müller had already started translating French works into German when he was a pastor in Spieß-Ems. Later he began to write his own works, including many books on church history. The three-volume work “The Christian Rome” (1843–45) deserves a special mention. His main work, which he wrote as a pastor in Weilbach and Mengerskirchen and later as a professor in Vézelise in France, is the publication of the papal biographies "The Roman Popes" (1847-1856) in 17 volumes. For this work he received his doctorate in philosophy in Freiburg in 1853 and in Rome in 1856 as " Chaplain to His Holiness " of Pope Pius IX. appointed.

A list of writings he wrote, which has 144 numbers, lists a total of 68 monographs, eight translated works and 15 manuscripts. His publications range from the 17-volume papal history to archaeological and philosophical works to Christian edification books.

Since he felt very close to Joseph Görres , he can be described as the first “Görresian” at Campo Santo Teutonico. As Anton de Waal's predecessor in the office of rector, he was an important German pioneer of science in Rome.

Works (selection)

  • Letters from Attikus or reflections on Cath. Religion and Protestantism from an Engl. Protestants. Translated into German by Ph. Müller, Würzburg 1834.
  • JF Bellemare: Conversations about Nancy or the flock without a shepherd. Translated by Ph. Müller, Würzburg 1835.
  • Philipp Müller: The procedure of the Catholic Church in the canonization of its saints. After the French by Heinrich von Bonald, Regensburg 1842.
  • Philipp Müller: The station churches of the capital Rome according to their occurrence in the missal. For the benefit of the clergy and secular, Vols 1–3, Aschaffenburg 1843.
  • E. de La Gournerie: The Christian Rome or historical painting of Christian memories and monuments of Rome. The underground Rome or description of the Catacombs of Rome, their memories and monuments, Vols 1–3, translated from the French by Philippe Müller, Frankfurt aM 1843–1845.
  • Philipp Müller: The Roman Popes or: History of the Heads who presided over the Catholic Church from Saint Peter to the now gloriously reigning two hundred and ninety and fiftieth successors of the same, according to the oldest and most recent works and documents on this subject, which over the centuries deliver, Vols 1–17, Vienna 1847–1856.
  • Philipp Müller: The misery in Paris and the Christian charities to combat it. A contribution to the history of the social conditions of our time. According to the publications of Abbé Mullois, first chaplain of the imperial house and his own observations, Mainz 1859.

literature

  • Volker Lemke: Philipp Müller (1804–1870) - A pioneer of science and forgotten predecessor Anton de Waals. In: Stefan Heid, Karl-Joseph Hummel (ed.): Papality & Patriotism. The Campo Santo Teutonico: Place of the Germans in Rome between Risorgimento and First World War (1870-1918) (= Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , supplement 65). Herder, Freiburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-38130-0 , pp. 507-546.
  • Volker Lemke: Philipp Müller (1804-1870). Catholic clergyman and writer. In: Jens Friedhoff (ed.): Molsberg 1116–2016. History of a Westerwald village, Hachenburg 2016, pp. 294–301.
  • Emmerich David : Prehistory and history of the college of priests at Campo Santo Teutonico (= Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , supplement volume 35), Rome 1927, p. 25f.
  • Erwin Gatz : Anton de Waal (1837–1917) and the Campo Santo Teutonico (= Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , supplement 38). With a list of publications by Anton de Waals compiled by Michael Durst. Herder, Freiburg 1980, ISBN 3-451-19194-6 , pp. 27f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the History of Bad Ems , Association News, No. 66, September 2018, p. 2 and 3, PDF view
  2. ↑ Stefan Heid : "When the rector of Campo Santo called the Vatican secret police" , Roman Institute of the Görres Society of July 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, church historian and Christian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Molsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1870
Place of death Rome