Stefan Samerski

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Stefan Antonius Samerski (born January 9, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German Catholic theologian , priest , church historian , university professor and non-fiction author .

Life

Stefan Samerski is a son of the married couple Werner Samerski and Eva Maria nee Neubauer. From 1982 to 1988 he studied Catholic theology, history and art history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and in Rome. From 1984 to 1991 he was employed at the Institute for Church History of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn, where he received his doctorate theologiae in 1991 with a thesis on church history . From 1991 to 1997 he worked on the edition of the files of the Cologne Nunciature at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG) in the Vatican. He then received a scholarship from the Görres Society from 1997 to 2000 to prepare for his habilitation in church history .

Stefan Samerski completed his habilitation in July 2000 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich in the subject of church history in the Middle Ages and modern times. From August 2000 he worked as a research assistant at the Humanities Center for East Central Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig. Since 2007 he has been an adjunct professor of church history in the Middle Ages and modern times at the LMU in Munich. He received the sacrament of ordination on June 27, 2009 in Regensburg. He teaches as a visiting professor at Polish, Roman, Austrian, Italian, Dutch and German universities and research institutes.

Stefan Samerski teaches as a professor of church history at the Redemptoris Mater Berlin seminary , a branch of the Pontifical Gregorian University , and is a long-time member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , Historical Commission for East and West Prussian Regional Research , Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council , Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands and Prussian Historical Commission .

Publications (selection)

  • The Catholic Church in the Free City of Danzig 1920–1933. Catholicism between Libertas and Irredenta (= Bonn contributions to church history . Vol. 17). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-412-01791-0 .
  • Atilio Amalteo (1545–1633), diplomatico pontificio di impronta tardoumanistica al servizio della riforma cattolica (Conferenza tenuta al Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani il 5-12-95) Biography (= German Study Center in Venice. Quaderni . Vol. 49). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 978-3-7995-4749-9 .
  • Priest in annexed Poland. The pastoral care of German clergy in the Polish areas attached to the German Reich 1939–1945 . Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 1997, ISBN 978-3-88557-168-1 .
  • Crime and Punishment? Bishop Carl Maria Splett in War and Captivity . Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons (Ed.), Bonn 1999, ISBN 978-3-88557-189-6 .
  • East German Catholicism in focus. The German East in the area of ​​tension between church and state after the First World War . Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 1999, ISBN 978-3-88557-176-6 .
  • “As in heaven, so on earth”? Beatification and canonization in the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1870 . (Also: habilitation thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2000) Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-17-016977-7 .
  • The Cologne Pantaleon worship. Context - function - development . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-3041-1 .
  • John Paul II biography . (= Beck series . 2435). : CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53635-9 .
  • Pancratius Pfeiffer , the extended arm of Pius XII. The Salvatorian General and the German occupation of Rome in 1943/44 . Biography. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-76726-4 .
  • The Nicopeia . Cult image - Palladium - myth of Venice . fe-Medienverlag, Kißlegg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86357-075-0 .
  • Popes as peace brokers . Bertuch Verlag GmbH, Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-86397-091-8 .
  • Germany and the Holy See. Diplomatic relations 1920–1945 . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-13402-3 .
As editor
  • Wilhelm II and religion. Facets of a personality and its environment . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-428-10406-2 .
  • The diocese of Danzig in life pictures. Ordinaries, auxiliary bishops, vicars general, apostolic visitators 1922/25 to 2000 . Biography (= religious and cultural history in East Central and Southeastern Europe . Vol. 3). Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6284-8 .
  • A bishop in court. The trial of Carl Maria Splett, Bishop of Gdańsk, in 1946 . fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 978-3-929-75998-3 .
  • The national patron of the Bohemian lands. History - adoration - present . Biography. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76679-3 .
  • Cura animarum. Pastoral care in the Teutonic Order of Prussia . Conference publication, Danzig 2010 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany . Vol. 45). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21027-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Stefan Samerski. LMU Munich, accessed on April 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Samerski - Biographical data. LMU Munich, accessed on April 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. theol. habil. Stefan Samerski. Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , accessed on April 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Samerski, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samerski, Stefan Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, church historian, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne