Stephan Beissel
Stephan Beissel (actually Karl Christian Stephan Hubert Beissel; born April 21, 1841 in Aachen ; † July 31, 1915 in Valkenburg , Netherlands ) was a German Jesuit and art historian .
Life
Beissel, son of needle manufacturers Stephan Beissel (1815-1849) and the Elise Jeghers (1819-1892) from Eupen, studied after graduating from the Aachen Municipal High School in 1860 Catholic theology in Bonn and Münster and was 1864 in Cologne for priests ordained. After initially being vicar at St. Michael in Burtscheid , he joined the Jesuit order in 1871 . Since the Jesuit order was banned in Germany in 1872, he stayed in France and England from then on, but mostly he lived in the Netherlands. In 1879 his order assigned him Christian art and Christian archeology as a field of activity, which he then dealt with until his death.
Beissel is considered "one of the founders of modern relic research".
Beissel was also a collector of seals and seal casts. The historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne acquired its collection of around 30,000 seals in the art trade in 1984.
Publications (selection)
- The building history of the Church of St. Victor zu Xanten (1883)
- Monetary value and wages in the Middle Ages. A study of the history of culture following the building accounts of the Church of St. Victor zu Xanten Freiburg i. Br. 1885 digital copy (reprint Paderborn 2011)
- History of the Trier churches, their relics and art treasures (1888)
- The building management of the Middle Ages. Study of the Church of St. Victor to Xanten. (1889)
- The veneration of saints and their relics in Germany during the Middle Ages (1890–92, digitized volume 1 , volume 2 ; reprinted in 1976 and 1988 with a list of his writings)
- Saint Bernward von Hildesheim as an artist and promoter of German art (1895)
- Pictures from the history of early Christian art and liturgy in Italy (1899)
- The Aachen trip. Adoration of the Aachen sanctuaries from the days of Charlemagne to our time (1902)
- The reliquary of St. Quirinus zu Neuss (1903)
- Art treasures of the Aachen Imperial Cathedral. Works of goldsmithing, ivory carving and textile art (1904)
- Origin of the pericopes of the Roman missal. On the history of the gospel books in the first half of the Middle Ages (1907, reprint 1967)
- History of the Adoration of Mary in Germany during the Middle Ages (1909)
- History of the Adoration of Mary in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1910)
literature
- Joseph Braun : In memory of P. Stephan Beissel SJ In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 37, 1915, pp. 319–336 ( digitized version , with photo and list of publications).
- Walter Kaemmerer: Beißel, Karl Christian Stephan Hubert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 22 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Beissel, Stephan. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 468.
- Gerald Goesche : Stephan Beissels, SJ view of Christian art . Aachen 1997. ISBN 3-89653-171-9
- Stefan Heid : Stephan Beissel SJ . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 1, p. 146f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephan Beissel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reiner Sörries : What was left of Jesus. The story of his relics. Kevelaer 2012, p. 22.
- ^ Archdiocese of Cologne: Historical archive: Beissel seal collection .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beissel, Stephan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beissel, Karl Christian Stephan Hubert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Jesuit and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1915 |
| Place of death | Valkenburg aan de Geul |