Rötger Hundt

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Rötger Hundt (born November 21, 1711 in Olpe ; † April 6, 1773 in Fortress St. Julian , Lisbon , Portugal ) was a German Jesuit and martyr .

Life

Rötger Hundt was born as the son of Mayor Augustinus Hundt and his wife Margarethe born. Liese was born one of four sons. He joined the Jesuits. After studying in Cologne , Büren , Trier and Paderborn , he was ordained a priest in 1742 .

Missionary in Brazil

After the ordination, the order sent Rötger Hund as a missionary to Brazil. His destination was the port city of Aquiraz, at that time the seat of the captainate of Ceará , southeast of today's city of Fortaleza . In Aquiraz he made his "great profession " and was finally accepted into the Jesuit order. In 1752 he was sent inland, to the mountains of the Serra da Ibiapaba , where he headed the Jesuit mission station there as a mission superior.

Arrest and martyrdom

In 1759, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello , Marquês de Pombal, who was the first minister to rule the Portuguese affairs of state, banned the Jesuit order in Portugal and Brazil . Hundt was then brought to Lisbon together with 12 confreres. On November 14, 1759, shortly after his arrival in Portugal, Hundt was arrested and imprisoned in the São Julião da Barra fortress at the mouth of the Tagus . The commander of the São Julião da Barra fortress was amazed at the trust in God with which the Jesuits imprisoned there endured the ordeal: “Everything rots in these dungeons, only the imprisoned Jesuits don't want to rot.” Rötger Hundt spent his last years in a tower from 1764 in solitary confinement, under inhumane circumstances. He died there on April 6, 1773.

Commemorations and honors

After his death, his fellow prisoners spoke of Hundt as the "martyr of St. Julian".

In Olpe, the Rötger-Hundt-Weg is named after him.

literature

  • Uwe Glüsenkamp: The fate of the Jesuits from the Upper German and the two Rhenish order provinces after their expulsion from the mission areas of the Portuguese and Spanish patronage (1755–1809) . Aschendorff, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-14866-2 .
  • Theo Hundt: Father Rötger Hundt SJ Indian missionary in Brazil . Kreisheimatbund Olpe, Olpe 1988 (reprint of the articles on the biography of Rötger Hundt published in the Heimatstimmen from the Olpe district in issues 146, 147, 148, 150 and 152).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Karl Heinrich Oberacker: The German contribution to building the Brazilian nation . Boysen, Hamburg 1955, p. 105.
  2. ↑ Johannes Meier : The Church and the Work of the Jesuits in Brazil (1549-1759) . In: Michael Kraus, Hans Ottomeyer (ed.): Novos mundos - New Worlds. Portugal and the Age of Discovery . Sandstein, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-11-1 , pp. 287–297, here p. 294.
  3. ↑ Uwe Glüsenkamp: The fate of the Jesuits from the Upper German and the two Rhenish order provinces after their expulsion from the mission areas of the Portuguese and Spanish patronage (1755–1809) . Aschendorff, Münster 2008, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Uwe Glüsenkamp: The fate of the Jesuits from the Upper German and the two Rhenish order provinces after their expulsion from the mission areas of the Portuguese and Spanish patronage (1755–1809) . Aschendorff, Münster 2008, p. 32.
  5. ↑ Jakob Torsy: Lexicon of the German saints, blessed, venerable and godly . Bachem, Cologne 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Hundt, Rötger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and martyr
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Olpe
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1773
Place of death St. Julian's Fortress , Lisbon