Raymund Kottje

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Raymund Kottje (born December 23, 1926 in Düsseldorf , † December 13, 2013 in Königswinter ) was a German historian and church historian .

Life

Raymund Kottje first completed a degree in history , classical philology and catholic theology , which he obtained in 1951 at the University of Bonn with a doctorate. phil. graduated; his dissertation on the history of the St. Quirin Abbey in Neuss in the Middle Ages was supervised by Paul Egon Hübinger .

Afterwards Kottje struck the ecclesiastical career and his PhD in 1964, also at the University of Bonn, at Hubert Jedin with studies on the influence of the Old Testament on law and liturgy of the early Middle Ages to the Dr. theol .; In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the Catholic Theological Faculty with a thesis on The Penitential Books of Halitgar of Cambrai and Hrabanus Maurus in the subject of church history. From 1965 Kottje taught first as an adjunct professor, from 1966 as a full professor for church history at the Catholic-theological faculty of the University of Trier . In 1967 he accepted a chair at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Regensburg . There he was elected the first dean of the theological faculty. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

After his laicisation and the related renunciation of the Regensburg Catholic theological professorship, Kottje was appointed to a professorship for medieval history at the University of Augsburg in 1973 . From there in 1980 he moved to the chair for medieval history, historical auxiliary sciences and archival studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn , which he held until his retirement in 1992; his successor was Theo Kölzer . Kottjes Bonn students include Ludger Körntgen , Michael F. Feldkamp and Andrea Stieldorf .

Kottje was buried in the cemetery in Königswinter- Stieldorf .

research

Kottje was considered an expert on ecclesiastical and secular sources of law from the early Middle Ages as well as on the general history of medieval church, canon law, archives and libraries. He paid particular attention to the early medieval books of penance and the editorial and content development of medieval penitential traditions as well as the history of the monastery, especially in the Rhineland. For the epigraphic edition company of the German inscriptions , Kottje and Helga Giersiepen presented the pioneering edition volume on the inscriptions of Aachen Cathedral .

The three-volume Ecumenical Church History , which he co-edited, first published in 1970–1974 and subsequently reissued several times, has become the standard work of research on church history . Kottje has published several interdisciplinary publications on the subject of killing in war as a moral and legal problem .

In 2012, Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) published his codicological directory of handwritten traditions of the works of Hrabanus Maurus , on which Kottje has published several individual studies in addition to various overview articles (such as in the Lexicon of the Middle Ages ).

Fonts

Source editions

Monographs

  • The St. Quirin Abbey in Neuss from its founding until 1485 (= publications of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine. Vol. 7, ISSN  0931-0096 ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1952.
  • Studies on the influence of the Old Testament on law and liturgy in the early Middle Ages (6th-8th centuries) (= Bonner Historische Forschungen. Vol. 23, ZDB -ID 500545-0 ). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1964 (2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Ibid 1970), (at the same time: Bonn, University, dissertation).
  • The books of penance by Halitgar of Cambrai and Hrabanus Maurus. Their tradition and sources (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. Vol. 8). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1980 ISBN 3-11-007666-7 (also: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1965).
  • The killing in war. A moral and legal problem in the early Middle Ages (= contributions to peace ethics. Vol. 11). Institute for Theology and Peace, Barnsbüttel 1991, ISBN 3-927320-10-2 .
  • with the collaboration of Thomas A. Ziegler: Directory of the manuscripts with the works of Hrabanus Maurus (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Aid. Vol. 27). Hahn, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-1134-5 .

Editorships

  • with Bernd Moeller : Ecumenical Church History. 3 volumes. Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag et al., Mainz et al. 1970–1974, several extended new editions, most recently:
  • with Helmut Maurer : Monastic reforms in the 9th and 10th centuries (= Constance working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Vol. 38). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-6638-4 .
  • The Lower Rhine Cistercians in the late Middle Ages. Reform efforts, economy and culture (= Cistercians in the Rhineland. Vol. 3). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1285-7 .
  • with Helga Giersiepen: Inscriptions up to 1300. Problems and tasks of their research. Lectures of the symposium for medieval and early modern epigraphy, Bonn 1993 (= treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 94). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-531-05114-8 .

Essays

literature

  • Hubert Mordek (ed.): From archives and libraries. Festschrift for Raymund Kottje on his 65th birthday (= Freiburg contributions to medieval history. Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-631-44363-3 , (pp. 617–630: List of publications Raymund Kottje 1950–1991).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hubert Mordek : Foreword. In: Hubert Mordek (ed.): From archives and libraries. Festschrift for Raymund Kottje on his 65th birthday (= Freiburg contributions to medieval history. Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, pp. IX – XI, here p. X.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice
personal data
SURNAME Kottje, Raymund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2013
Place of death Koenigswinter