Stephan Lederer
Stephan Lederer (born February 14, 1844 in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse ; † June 13, 1923 in Altötting ) was a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Speyer and a theological and local history writer.
Live and act
Stephan Lederer was born in Wachenheim in the Upper Palatinate in 1844, studied and was ordained a priest on March 17, 1869 in Freising Cathedral . At first he worked as a clergyman in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising , where he officiated as a cooperator in Haag and Inzell .
On December 1, 1870, Lederer entered the service of his home diocese Speyer and became chaplain in Homburg , and in 1872 administrator of the parish. From April 15, 1873 he was used in the same office in Hördt , and from July 10 of that year in Oberotterbach . In this village he received his first independent pastor on September 20, 1873. On August 7, 1882 Lederer became pastor in Rodalben , where he stayed for almost 20 years until 1901. In Rodalben, the priest enlarged the parish church and collected donations for the construction of a girls' school with an attached kindergarten and sewing school. For this purpose he settled the Dominican Sisters of Speyer in the parish. When Pastor Lederer Rodalben left, he donated the building to the community. Today it is called the Dr.-Lederer-Haus and houses u. a. the Johann Peter Frank Museum . In Rodalben, Pastor Lederer researched the local and church history in detail, about which he published the book Documentary History of Christian Religious Exercise in the Graefenstein Office , which became a sought-after source work on local history and was reprinted in 2010. The clergyman also initiated the establishment of the first shoe factories there and founded the Rodalber Loan Association in 1892 in order to remedy the financial hardship of the rural population. In 1912 Pastor Lederer was given honorary citizenship of the Rodalben community and a street was named after him.
On his 57th birthday, February 14, 1901, Stephan Lederer, who has now received his doctorate, took over the parish of Grünstadt . Here, too, he was an avid local researcher and, together with the Protestant pastor Emil Müller , on April 22, 1903, he was the founder of the local antiquity society , which still exists under this name today; Pastor Lederer acted as its first secretary and also wrote the founding minutes.
On May 7, 1906, the clergyman went to Fußgönheim as a pastor , and to nearby Hochdorf on October 16, 1912 .
In 1919 Lederer resigned from his pastoral service due to increasing sickness and retired as an emeritus to the Bavarian pilgrimage site Altötting , where he owned a house and - as long as his health was possible - participated in pastoral care. He died there on June 13, 1923 and was buried on June 16 with great sympathy in a crypt under the outer arches of the St. Michael cemetery church.
writer
In addition to the local history book Documented History of Christian Religious Exercise in the Graefenstein Office, Stephan Lederer published various theological works, the best known of which are:
- The Spanish cardinal John of Torquemada: his life and his writings . Herder Verlag Freiburg, 1879 ( digitized version ). Reprints: BiblioBazaar 2010, ISBN 9781141754427 ; Let Me Print 2012, ISBN 9785873257010 .
- The question of the catechism of the Catholic Church and its simplest solution . self-published, 1882
- Faith as free knowledge of salvation: a word to clarify the Catholic teaching method . self-published, 1891
- The better shaping of the Christian doctrine of salvation in the catechism . 1892
- The resuscitation d. Canisian catechesis . 1897
- A very necessary reform in the area of Catholic teaching and practice . 1905
- Very serious revelations about the unified catechism . 1906
- The main foundation of the unified catechism according to Deharbe, Linden, Schuster . 1908
Of these theological publications, the first, on Cardinal Juan de Torquemada , is part of the relevant standard literature. Stephan Lederer had already written this work as a student and received a prize for it from the University of Würzburg in 1866 . The theological faculty then ruled:
“This work is not only characterized by the appropriate structure of the material and by the conscientious use of all materials available to the author, but also by the maturity and definiteness of the judgment, as well as by a clear presentation in such a way that it can be considered completely worthy of the price [...] "
Special
The younger brother Karl Lederer (1848–1898) was also a Catholic priest and wrote theological treatises. He died at the age of 50 as the city pastor of Homburg.
literature
- Obituary and report of the funeral . In: Der Pilger , Speyer, No. 25 of June 24, 1923
- Alois Weber: Dr. Stephan Lederer, pastor and master builder, social reformer and historical researcher . Home calendar for the Pirmasenser and Zweibrücker Land, 1980
- Diocese of Speyer: schemes from 1873 and 1915
- A treasure trove of local history (for the new edition of the book Documentary History of Christian Religious Exercise in the Grävenstein Office ). In: Der Pilger , Speyer, No. 51, from December 19, 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the diocese of Speyer on the new edition of the book, 2010 ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Stephan Lederer's burial place
- ↑ 1902, Reprint 2010, Pilgerverlag Annweiler, ISBN 978-3-942133-44-9
- ^ Ministerial Gazette for Church and School Affairs in the Kingdom of Bavaria. III. Vintage. Straub, Munich 1867, p. 35 ( full text in the Google book search)
- ↑ Obituary and obituary of Dr. Karl Lederer. In: Der Pilger Nr. 46, from November 13, 1898
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lederer, Stephan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lederer, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic clergyman, theological and local history writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wachenheim on the Wine Route |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1923 |
| Place of death | Altötting |