Rita Haub

Rita Haub (born February 18, 1955 in Munich ; † January 8, 2015 in Dachau ) was a German musicologist, historian, journalist and publicist.

Life

After a musical-practical training in piano and concert guitar and an artistic training in painting and weaving and the acquisition of the general university entrance qualification at a modern-language grammar school, she studied chemistry, musicology, Latin philology of the Middle Ages and basic historical sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich . She obtained an MA with a thesis on "Selected motets from the Notre Dame manuscript Mü A (Bayer. Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Gall. 42)" , followed by a doctorate (Dr. phil.) With a thesis on "Documentation in the Diocese of Eichstätt up to the middle of the 13th century" .

From 1983 to 1996 she worked as a research assistant at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , the House of Bavarian History and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . She then took on the role of director of the Archives of the Upper German Province of the Jesuits in Munich (Archivum Monacense Societatis Jesu) until 2004 , after which she headed the History & Media Department of the German Province of the Jesuits.

From 2009 to 2011 she taught as a lecturer at the Munich Seniors Academy.

Rita Haub died on January 8, 2015.

Participation in associations, committees and editorial offices

• Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Rome) (editor)
• INIGO Medien GmbH (Munich) (editor and shareholder)
• Jesuit online editorial team (www.jesuiten.org) (Munich) (editor)
• Jesuitica eV, Association for Research into the History of the Jesuit Order (founding member)
• Historians' commission for the beatification of Jakob Rem SJ (member)

Research focus of Rita Haub

• History of the Jesuits up to the first abolition of the order in 1773
• biographical research on personalities of the Jesuit order
• Jesuit mission and a. in Paraguay
• Pedagogy of the Jesuits
• Jesuits and Science
• Jesuits in the time of National Socialism (especially Alfred Delp and Rupert Mayer )

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

• The motets in the Notre Dame manuscript Mü A (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Gall. 42) (= Munich Editions for Music History Volume 8), Tutzing 1986
• Documentation in the Diocese of Eichstätt up to the middle of the 13th century , Munich 1993, (also Hochschulschrift München, Univ., Diss., 1990)
• (Ed.), Together with Julius Oswald SJ (Ed.), Jesuitica. Bibliography on history - art - literature - natural science - philosophy - theology of the Society of Jesus , 3rd, extended edition, Munich 1997
• (Ed.), With Peter M. Daly (Ed.) And G. Richard Dimler (Ed.), Emblematics and Art of the Jesuits in Bavaria. Influence and Effect (= Imago Figurata, Studies III), Turnhout 2000, ISBN 2-503-50967-3 .
• with Franz Daxecker , Peter Frieß, Julius Oswald, discover the sun. Christoph Scheiner 1575–1650 , Ingolstadt 2000, ISBN 3-932113-29-2 .
• Franz Xaver . Departure into the world (= Topos-plus pocket books, volume 423) Limburg, Kevelaer 2002, ISBN 3-7867-8423-X .
• Rupert Mayer . Committed to the truth (Topos-plus pocket books, volume 512), Limburg, Kevelaer 2004, ISBN 3-7867-8512-0 .
• Petrus Canisius . Ambassador of Europe (Topos-plus pocket books, volume 513), Limburg, Kevelaer 2004, ISBN 3-7867-8513-9 .
• Peter Faber . Globetrotter Gottes (= Topos-plus-Taschenbücher, Volume 568), Kevelaer 2006, ISBN 3-7867-8568-6 .
• Ignatius of Loyola . Finding God in all things (= Topos-plus pocket books, volume 567), Kevelaer 2006, ISBN 3-7867-8567-8 .
• It challenges the whole person. Jesuits in the Resistance , Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-429-02718-6 .
• The history of the Jesuits , Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89678-580-0 and ISBN 978-3-534-19019-5 .
• Alfred Delp . Prayer and Faith (= Topos-plus-Taschenbücher, Volume 604), Kevelaer 2007, ISBN 978-3-7867-8604-7 .
• Sun, moon and stars. Jesuits as discoverers (= Topos-plus-Taschenbücher, Volume 642), Kevelaer 2008, ISBN 978-3-8367-0642-1 .
• The Jesuit crypt in the study church Dillingen an der Donau , Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-498-4 .
• with Paul Oberholzer, Matteo Ricci and the Emperor of China. Jesuit mission in the Middle Kingdom , Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-429-03226-5 .
• Franz von Tattenbach SJ. The concern for people is the focus - An educator for Central America , Kevelaer 2010. ISBN 978-3-8367-0733-6 .
• with Peter Hamm, philosophy between dream and reality. Thoughts on power and strength, plus and minus , Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-429-03639-3 .
• with Peter Hamm, ZeitGeist Gott! Faith and Being in the Context of Humanity and Religion , Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-429-03724-6 .
• Alfred Delp. In the resistance against Hitler (= Topos pocket books, volume 1007), Kevelaer 2015, ISBN 978-3-8367-1007-7 .

Articles in collective works

• Petrus Canisius as a writer , in: Julius Oswald, Peter Rummel (eds.), Petrus Canisius - Reformer of the Church. Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the death of the second apostle in Germany (= yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese, Volume 30), Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-929246-17-1 , pp. 151–177.
• Codex Mellicensis 950 , in: Walter Pass, Alexander Rausch (Ed.), Medieval Music Theory in Central Europe (= Musica mediaevalis Europae occidentalis 4), Tutzing 1998, ISBN 3-7952-0951-X , pp. 51-55.
• Everyday school life shaped by Jesuits. The Bavarian School Regulations (1569) and the Ratio studiorum (1599) , in: Rüdiger Funiok , Harald Schöndorf (ed.), Ignatius von Loyola and the pedagogy of the Jesuits. A model for school and personality development, Donauwörth 2000, ISBN 3-403-03225-6 , pp. 130–159.

Magazine articles

• Georgius Victorinus and the Triumphus Divi Michaelis Archangeli Bavarici , in: Music in Bavaria, year 51, 1995, pp. 79–85.
• Matthäus Rader in the mirror of his letters , in: Voices of the Time , Volume 214, 1996, pp. 209–212.
• A certificate from Oswald von Wolkenstein in the inventory of the Beuerberg monastery documents in the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich , in: Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 59, 1996, pp. 177-183.
• The South Tyrolean Jesuit Father Matthäus Rader . His origin and his work , in: Der Schlern , year 70, 1996, pp. 724–736.
• The epistolarium P. Matthäus Raders SJ and the Ellwanger painter August Stubenvoll , in: Ellwanger Jahrbuch, year 36, 1995/96, pp. 214-218.
• "I am the son of a poor baker!" Matthäus Rader SJ (1561–1643) , in: Archivum historicum Societatis Jesu, Volume 70, 2001, Number 139, pp. 173–180.
• Ignatius von Loyola and the corporate design of the Society of Jesus , in: Collector's sheet of the Historisches Verein Ingolstadt, number 111, 2002, pp. 85–96.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rita Haub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the catalog of the Library of Congress
• Rita Haub's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Provincial Stefan Kiechle SJ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 17, 2015, p. 22.