Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen

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The Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen was founded in 1923 in Dillingen on the Danube from a Dillingen lyceum that trained Catholic clergy. In 1971 the university was dissolved and incorporated into the newly founded University of Augsburg as the Catholic Theological Faculty .

About history

The roots of the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen go back to the 16th century. In 1549 the Collegium St. Hieronymi , also called "Collegium Litterarum", was founded by the Augsburg Bishop Cardinal Otto Truchseß von Waldburg in the episcopal residence town of Dillingen on the Danube and in 1551 elevated to the status of the first permanent university in today's Bavarian administrative district of Swabia.

In 1563 the University of Dillingen was taken over by the Jesuit order . This was abolished in 1773 and the University of Dillingen was subordinated to the sovereign, the Augsburg Prince-Bishop Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony .

In the course of secularization and the affiliation of the imperial monastery Augsburg to Bavaria in 1802/03, the University of Dillingen was abolished in 1803 by the new sovereign, the Bavarian elector Maximilian IV Joseph , who later became King Maximilian I of Bavaria, and was used to train Catholic clergy converted into a high school with academic rank. In contrast to the universities with at least four faculties (philosophy, theology, law, medicine), the lycees in Amberg, Bamberg, Dillingen, Freising, Passau and Regensburg, as special schools of philosophy and theology, usually only consisted of a philosophy and a theological department.

In 1923 the state high schools in Bamberg, Dillingen, Freising, Passau and Regensburg were officially given the name “University” or “Philosophical-Theological University”, which had been used for a long time. The Lyceum in Dillingen was renamed “Philosophical-Theological University Dillingen”. As before, she trained the clergy of the Diocese of Augsburg without the right to confer doctorates or habilitation. The conformity measures implemented by the National Socialists from 1933 onwards had little success at the philosophical-theological universities despite massive repression, but they were closed in the winter semester of 1939/40.

After 1945 Dillingen was reopened like the other philosophical-theological universities. They were supposed to relieve the partially destroyed state universities in Munich, Würzburg and Erlangen. However, due to the lack of the right to award doctorates and habilitation, they lost their attractiveness, so that in the course of the educational reforms of the 1970s they were either closed (Freising) or integrated into the newly founded universities (Passau, Bamberg, Regensburg, Augsburg, Eichstätt).

In this way the Phil.-Theol. Dillingen University of Applied Sciences affiliated to the University of Augsburg, founded in 1970, as a Catholic Theological Department in April 1971.

In 1971 the Academy for Teacher Training was established in the buildings of the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen, which was renamed the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in 1996 . The academy is directly subordinate to the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture .

Well-known professors

  • Walter Brandmüller (born January 5, 1929 in Ansbach), Dr. theol., Prof. for Church History 1969–1971
  • Peter Dausch (1864–1944), exegete, author and professor of theology, worked in Dillingen from 1903 to 1930 and died there in 1944 as emeritus.
  • Ernst Deuerlein (1918–1971), Dr. phil., 1964–1970 full professor for history and art history at the PTH Dillingen, for economic and social history at the WiSo faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and for modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
  • Adolf Eberle (1886–1976), Professor Dr. phil., Dr. theol., Monsignor, Episcopal-Spiritual Council, 1931–1947 Rector
  • Hermann Lais (1912–2010), Dr. theol., from 1953 professor of dogmatics and apologetics (fundamental theology), 1961 rector, founding dean of the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Augsburg
  • Rudolf Schnackenburg (1914–2002), 1952–1955 Professor of New Testament Exegesis
  • Alfred Schröder (1865–1935), professor of history and art history
  • Bernhard Schöpf (1907–1997), last university rector in Dillingen
  • Friedrich Zoepfl (1885–1973), Dr. theol., from 1930 teaching at the PTH Dillingen, 1945–1953 full professor for history and art history
  • Georg Pfeilschifter (1901–1980), together with Eberle, Zoepfl, Schröder and Dausch, signing the appeal for Hitler of November 11, 1933
  • Adolf Wilhelm Ziegler (1903–1989), associate professor for church history 1945–1948

Well-known students

  • Maximilian Forschner (born April 19, 1943 in Reichling), philosopher, from 1962 to 1967 Catholic theology at the PTH Dillingen
  • Ludwig Gschwind (* 1940 in Nördlingen), dean in the dean's office in Krumbach, studied philosophy and theology at the PTH Dillingen
  • Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), priest and hydrotherapist, 1848 studied theology
  • Franz-Martin Schmölz OP (1927–2003), Catholic social ethicist and legal philosopher, 1947–1949 studied philosophy, theology and political science in Dillingen

literature

  • Directory of people and courses. Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen on the Danube . Winter semester 1970/1971. Dillingen (ad Donau): Philosophical-Theological University, winter semester 1970/1971 (discontinued publication with this number)
  • Friedrich Zoepfl: From the university to the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen . In: Directory of people and courses / Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen ad Donau. Winter semester 1966/67 (1966), pp. 3–9 Also [with ill.] In: Dillingen ad Donau: Erbe und Einsatz / written, expanded and edited by Karl Baumann. Dillingen, 1987, pp. 37-50
  • Ernst Deuerlein: The diocese of Augsburg between secularization and re-establishment . In: Yearbook of the Association for Augsburg Diocesan History (JVAB), 2nd year, Augsburg, 1968, 142 pages, pp. 107–127
  • Thomas Groll: The State Philosophical-Theological University Dillingen in the Third Reich . In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese (JVAB), XL pp. 521–548
  • Laetitia Boehm : University initiatives Augsburg-Dillingen . In: Max Spindler (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian History. Munich, 3.2 (1971), pp. 1163-1166
  • Friedrich Zoepfl: History and art history at the high school in Dillingen . In: Journal for Bavarian State History 35 (1972), pp. 345–359
  • Rudolf Frankenberger; Paul Berthold Rupp: University, Lyceum, Philosophical-Theological University Dillingen - University of Augsburg . Exhibition on the occasion of the opening of the new building for the humanities at the University of Augsburg; 10/27 - November 20, 1977. Ed .: University Library Augsburg. Augsburg: University Library, 1977, 35 pp.
  • Peter Rummel: University - Lyceum - Philosophical-Theological University . In: Dillingen, a Swabian center of intellectual and spiritual education. [Writer: Peter Rummel]. Augsburg, 1979, pp. 31-43
  • Hermann Lais: The founding history of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg . In: University of Augsburg 1970-1980. For the tenth anniversary of the University of Augsburg . Edited by the University of Augsburg, Augsburg 1980, pp. 156–174. Republished in: Yearbook of the Historisches Verein Dillingen an der Donau 83, 1981, pp. 57–72
  • Louis Perridon: University policy and science concepts when founding the University of Augsburg. Speeches on the occasion of the celebration of the 65th birthday of the Augsburg founding president Louis Perridon . The academic ceremony took place on January 25, 1984. [Ed .: President of the Univ. Augsburg. Ed .: Stephanie Domm]. Augsburg: Universität, 1984, 27 p. (Augsburger Universitätsreden; 3) - also as PDF
  • Rainer A. Müller (ed.): Veritati et Vitae. From the Episcopal Lyceum to the Catholic University, Festschrift , 2 volumes. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 1993, ISBN 3-7917-1376-0 (Eichstätter Studies, New Series, Volume 33)
    • Volume I: 150 years of the Eichstätt Theological Faculty . Edited by Alfred Gläßer
    • Volume II: From the Episcopal Lyceum to the Catholic University . Edited by Rainer A. Müller, 766 pages
  • Peter Rummel: Striving for simplicity and credibility. Prof. Bernhard Schöpf, last university rector in Dillingen, died at the age of 90 . In: Dilingana 62, 1997, p. 92 f.
  • Rainer A. Müller: Lyceum and Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen in the context of the Bavarian higher education system (1804-1939) . 1999. In: Rolf Kießling (Ed.): The University of Dillingen and their successors. Stations and aspects of a university in Swabia . Dillingen an der Donau: Historischer Verein Dillingen, 1999, pp. 129–166
  • Rolf Kießling (Ed.): The University of Dillingen and its successors. Stations and aspects of a university in Swabia; Festschrift for the 450th anniversary . (= Yearbook of the Historical Association of Dillingen an der Donau, Volume 100, pp. 837-874), Dillingen / Donau, 1999
  • Rüdiger May: Bibliography on Dillinger University History . In: Rolf Kießling (ed.): The University of Dillingen and its successors . Dillingen / Donau 1999, pp. 837-874
  • Paul Berthold Rupp; Rüdiger May: 450 years of the University of Dillingen (1549 - 1999) . An exhibition by the Augsburg State Archives and the Dillingen Study Library; [Dillingen Study Library, June 11 to July 9, 1999]. Munich: General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, 1999, 72 p. (Small exhibitions / Bavarian State Archives; 11)
  • Ingo Schröder: The state philosophical-theological universities in Bavaria from 1923 to 1978 . Dissertation, University of Munich, 2003. [Electronic resource] 2004, 209 sheets - online resource PDF
  • Werner Lengger: On the written tradition of the former University and Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen and its way into the archives and libraries . In: Bavaria, Swabia and the Reich. Festschrift for Pankraz Fried on his 75th birthday . Edited by Peter Fassl u. a. (Augsburg contributions to the regional history of Bavarian Swabia 11), Augsburg 2007, pp. 251–268

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  1. ↑ Episcopal ordinances for the theology aspirants and theology candidates from the diocese of Augsburg at the Dillingen University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg 1911
  2. ^ Ingo Schröder: Philosophical-theological universities. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, 22.08.2006 - PDF file 1.2 MB
  3. ↑ Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg: On the history of the Catholic-Theological Faculty
  4. ^ Gertraud Kränzle:  Friedrich Zoepfl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1597-1598.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  5. ↑ see Lemma Zoepfl