Richard Puza

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Richard Puza (born August 17, 1943 in Klagenfurt ) is a Catholic canon lawyer . He has been a retired professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since summer 2011 .

Life

Richard Puza, son of a lawyer, completed his law studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz in 1965 with a doctorate and passed the second state examination in the subjects of civil law , commercial law and criminal law with distinction. From 1966 Puza was contract assistant at the Institute for Canon Law at the Faculty of Law of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz under the direction of Prof. Dr. Helmut Schnizer , from 1967 university assistant. In 1972 Puza completed his habilitation with a thesis on legal force and incorrect judgment in the decisions of the Roman Rota for the subject of canon law (published in Graz 1973) and then became senior assistant and university lecturer. As such, he not only held courses on canon law, but also propaedeutic and university didactic courses. In addition, he intensified his research focus on canon law and the history of canon law through research stays, archive studies and language studies, particularly in Rome , Siena , Grenoble , Lyon and Aix-en-Provence .

From the 1978/1979 winter semester to the 1979/1980 winter semester, Puza was the representative of the chair for canon law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, and in the 1980 summer semester a corresponding teaching assignment there. In 1979 he was appointed associate professor for ecclesiastical legal history and state church law at the law faculty of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. On November 27, 1980 he was appointed full professor ( full professor ) for canon law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He still holds this chair today.

Puza has been married since 1967.

Services

In the academic years 1981/1982, 1991/1992 as well as 1998/1999 and 1999/2000 Puza was dean of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen as well as in the academic years 1982/1983, 1992/1993 as well as 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 their vice dean. In the 2008/2009 winter semester, Puza was re-elected Dean. For a time, Puza was also professor spokesman, coordinator of the research report and representative of his faculty in the Catholic Theological Faculty Day. In addition to his role as legal advisor as the coordinator of the ERASMUS and SOCRATES program of the European Union , Puza has endeavored to promote international student exchanges within his faculty and has concluded innovative partnership agreements with Islamic-theological faculties in Istanbul and Çanakkale . In addition, he supports students as a liaison lecturer for the German National Academic Foundation .

Permanent visiting professorships have led Puza to, among others, Pavia , the Pontificia Facoltà Teologica “San Giovanni Evangelista” di Sicilia in Palermo , the Institut catholique and the Université Jean Monet in Paris as well as the Université Marc Bloch and the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg . He regularly organizes specialist conferences in cooperation with the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart as well as international congresses.

Puza is President of the European Consortium for Church and State Research as well as a member of the International Consortium "Droit canonique et culture", of the Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo , of the Working Group for Canon Law (the association of German representatives for church law) and of the Ecclesiastical legal office in matters relating to church contributions in the diocese of Graz-Seckau . Puza was an advisor to the Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart 1985/1986 and Adiutor Secretarii Specialis to the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1987 on the subject of the “vocation and mission of the laity in church and world”. He is a diocesan judge at the Episcopal Office of Rottenburg and was appointed by the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart as a member of the Diocesan Council and the Commission on Sexual Abuse by Clergy.

Puza's students include professors Andreas Weiß ( Catholic University of Eichstätt ), René Pahud de Mortanges ( University of Friborg ) and Jean Werckmeister ( Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg ) as well as private lecturers Hans-Jürgen Guth ( Tübingen ) and Karl-Christoph Kuhn ( Ratshausen ) .

The main research areas of Puza are in the areas of ecclesiastical legal history, ecclesiastical marriage law and property law as well as state church law . He works as an expert in these areas and in patronage law and university law. Recently Puza has been researching the law of non-Catholic denominations and other religions.

Puza has written a wide range of scientific publications. In addition to a textbook on canon law (3rd edition in preparation), there are monographs, editorships of books and magazines (including the Internet magazine NomoK @ non - (state) church law on the web ), essays and lexicon articles on, among other things, the Catholic concept of marriage and the legal status of remarried divorced people in of the Catholic Church and the problem of the so-called viri probati . Puza has also dealt with questions of legal history and has published publications on the jurisprudence of the Apostolic Signature and the Roman Rota in the early modern period. In addition, numerous publications are dedicated to questions from the area of ​​state church law. Puza has dealt with problems of church patronage several times . He made repeated comments on questions of state church law in connection with German reunification.

On his sixtieth birthday Puza received a festschrift entitled Flexibilitas iuris canonici (edited by Andreas Weiß and Stefan Ihli, Frankfurt 2003).

However, it can already be stated today that in addition to the question of the position of the laity in the Catholic Church, the diaconal function of canon law is a particular concern of Puza. He is thus in the tradition of the school of Italian lay canonists and the Second Vatican Council . For Puza, law in the service of people's salvation requires a smooth interpretation of legal norms using canonical principles such as B. Epikie , Aequitas canonica and Oikonomia .

Due to his new research focus on the comparison of religious legal systems, Puza has also made a contribution to the dialogue between denominations and religions. Through this interreligious dialogue, primarily through international research collaborations and through a legal-historical perspective, Puza tries to transcend the limitations of the canonical schools within Germany and thereby open up new horizons for his subject.

Works

Monographs

  1. Res iudicata. Legal force and incorrect judgment in the decisions of the Roman Rota, Graz 1973.
  2. Catholic Church Law, Heidelberg 1986; 2nd edition 1993
  3. Franz Xaver Wernz - teacher, canonist and Jesuit general from Rottweil. A German canon lawyer in Rome, Rottweil 1994.

Editorships and Associate Editorships

  1. ERASMUS theology program Lyon (F) - Tübingen (D) - Friborg (CH) - Madrid (E) - Maynooth (IRL), ed. v. Puza, Richard, Tübingen and others J.
  2. Law, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Lube, Manfred, 1. A. Graz 1974.
  3. Technical user guide for the libraries of the University of Graz. Volume 7: Law. With instructions for studying, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Lube, Manfred, 2nd A., Graz 1977.
  4. The situation of lecturers at the universities in Austria, ed. v. Kneucker, Raoul F. / Puza, Richard, Vienna 1977.
  5. Co-editor at ThQ since 1980.
  6. The CIC 1983 (special issue of the ThQ), ed. v. Puza, Richard, Munich 1983.
  7. Contributions to canon law, ed. v. Grote, Heiner / Kaiser, Matthäus / Puza, Richard, Schwerte 1984.
  8. One Church - One Right? Canon Law Conflicts between Rome and the German Local Churches, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Stuttgart 1990.
  9. The churches and German unity. Legal and constitutional issues between church and state in a united Germany, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Stuttgart 1991.
  10. Viri probati (special issue of the ThQ), ed. v. Puza, Richard / Mieth, Dietmar, Munich 1991.
  11. State religious law in a European comparison, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Friborg 1993.
  12. Beginning and end of marriage. Current trends in canon and civil law, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Heidelberg 1994.
  13. Remarried divorcees (special issue of the ThQ), ed. v. Puza, Richard / Mieth, Dietmar / Hünermann, Peter, Munich 1995.
  14. New treaties between church and state. The development in Germany and Poland, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Friborg 1996.
  15. Synodal law and synodal structures. Concretions and developments of “synodality” in the Catholic Church, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Friborg 1996.
  16. Image controversy about marriage. Theological and canonical legacies of a current conflict, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Kustermann, Abraham P., Friborg 1997.
  17. Justice in caritate. Commemoration for Ernst Rößler on the 25th anniversary of his service as official of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Weiß, Andreas, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1997.
  18. NomoK @ non. (State) church law on the web, internet magazine at the address http://www.nomokanon.de , ed. v. Puza, Richard, Tübingen 1998 ff.
  19. After divorce in law. The Legal Status of Remarried Divorced Persons in the Catholic Church, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Ihli, Stefan / Frank, Engelbert, Tübingen 2001.
  20. Civil religion (special issue of the ThQ), ed. v. Puza, Richard, Munich 2003.
  21. Unité des nations, pluralisme religieux et construction européenne (LeSuppl, special issue no. 228), ed. v. Puza, Richard / Durand, Jean-Paul, Paris 2004.
  22. Churches and religious communities as “engines of Europe”. Building blocks for a European religious law, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Ihli, Stefan, Berlin et al. 2007.
  23. Lexicon of official ecclesiastical designations of the Catholic, Evangelical and Orthodox Churches in Germany, ed. v. Puza, Richard, Stuttgart 2007.
  24. Church foundation between ecclesiastical and state law. For the contemporary profiling of an old financing and legal institution, ed. v. Puza, Richard / Ihli, Stefan / Kustermann, Abraham Peter, Berlin et al. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/Home/nachrichten_artikel,-Richard-Puza-hat-Ruhestandsalter-erreich-und-macht-weiter-_arid,145949_print,1.html
  2. ↑ a b J. Koehler, Richard Puza. A biography under the sign and in the service of the council , in: A. Weiß, S. Ihli (eds.), Flexibilitas iuris canonici. Festschrift for Richard Puza on his 60th birthday , Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2003, 17-40.
  3. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/Home/nachrichten_artikel,-Richard-Puza-hat-Ruhestandsalter-erreich-und-macht-weiter-_arid,145949_print,1.html

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personal data
SURNAME Puza, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt