Rudolf Weigand

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Rudolf Weigand (born February 16, 1929 in Rannungen ; † June 21, 1998 in Würzburg ) was a Catholic priest, German theologian and canon lawyer .

Professional background

Weigand attended the Kilianeum Episcopal Boys' Seminar at the Alten Gymnasium in Würzburg as an alumne . After graduating from high school, he began studying Catholic theology at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in 1948 . At the same time he entered the seminary there. In 1949 he joined the Catholic student association WKSt.V. Unitas Hetania at. After studying in Würzburg and Munich, he passed the final theological examination in 1952. On July 19, 1953, Weigand was ordained a priest by Bishop Julius Döpfner . This was followed by a period of pastoral work in various places in his home diocese. In 1956 he was appointed the Maidbronn Curate.

Weigand did his doctorate under Ernst Rösser , who was then professor for canon law at the University of Würzburg. At the end of 1960 he was able to present his legal historical investigation into conditional marriage to the faculty as a dissertation and was formally completed in 1963. Already released since 1961 for postgraduate studies at the Canon Institute in Munich, he received his doctorate again in 1963 with a thesis on conditional marriage, but now from a systematic point of view, as a licentiate in canon law. Returning to Würzburg, Wrigand completed his habilitation in 1966. In his habilitation thesis, he dealt with the doctrine of natural law of the decretists and lawyers. On October 10, 1968 Weigand was appointed full professor of canon law and history of canon law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Würzburg. He remained loyal to her until his retirement on March 31, 1997.

His academic commitment extended far beyond his university: Weigand had been a member of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law since 1964, a member of the Working Group for Specialists in Canon Law since its foundation in 1975 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Eichstätt since 1983 . In addition, he regularly took on a teaching position for the history of the sources of canon law as part of the canonical postgraduate course established at the University of Münster in 1992.

In addition to his academic work, Weigand was always active as a priest and was closely associated with the Diocese of Würzburg. The most sensible expression of this is his activity as a Regens of the seminary (1969–1976), which he performed alongside his teaching duties. Since 1989, he has been particularly interested in participating in the 'bilateral working group of the German Bishops' Conference and the church leadership of the VELKD'. He was also a leading member of the Schoenstatt Movement . He had already joined it in 1953 and it has always been his spiritual home. On the part of the Church, his work was honored with his appointment as papal honorary prelate (1989).

Works (selection)

  • Conditional marriage in canon law. Part I: The Development of Conditional Marriage in Canon Law. A contribution to the history of canon law from Gratian to Gregory IX, 1963.
  • The doctrine of natural law of the legislators and decretists from Irnerius to Accursius and from Gratian to Johannes Teutonicus, 1967.
  • Conditional marriage in canon law. Volume II: On the further history of the conditional marriage. Legal theory, legal dogmatics, legal comparison, 1980.
  • Collected writings on the classical canonism of Franz Gillmann (Research on Canon Law 5 / 1-5 / 3), 1988 and 1993.
  • The glosses to Gratian's decree. Studies on the early glosses and glosses compositions, 1991.
  • War and Peace in the Law Collections of Ivo von Chartres (Contributions to Peace Ethics 13), 1992.
  • Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages, 1993.
  • Glossators of the Gratians Decree (Bibliotheca Eruditorum 18), 1997.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 4 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2000, p. 469 .
personal data
SURNAME Weigand, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, priest, canon lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rannungen
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1998
Place of death Wurzburg