Squidward Soiron

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Thaddäus Soiron (born March 25, 1881 in Kohlscheid- Church as Hubert Heinrich Leo Soiron , † June 30, 1957 in Moresnet-Chapelle , East Belgium ) was a German Franciscan (OFM) , theologian and university professor.

Life

Hubert Soiron's parents Joseph and Helene came from Belgium; the father was a mine worker and travel agent. Hubert had three siblings. He attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen until 1900 and entered the novitiate of the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ) in Warendorf , where he received the religious name Thaddäus. After the one-year novitiate, he completed his high school education at the College of the Order in Harreveld (Netherlands) and graduated from high school there in 1903. From 1903 he studied at the provincial study houses in Dorsten (philosophy) and Paderborn (theology), was ordained a priest in Paderborn in 1909 and then worked as a pastor.

Scientist and preacher

From 1911 he studied theology, philosophy and Semitic philology at the University of Münster , which he continued in 1913 in Munich. In 1915 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "The Logia Jesu" with Max Meinertz (1880-1965) in Münster. From 1914 to 1929 Father Thaddäus worked as a lecturer for homiletics and New Testament exegesis at the religious college in Paderborn, from 1915 to 1918 he was also cathedral preacher in Paderborn.

As a cathedral preacher, he published “war sermons” during the First World War , in which he also named the dark side of war against forms of enthusiasm for war, for example: “War is something terrible. It is the sum of hardship and cruelty, of misery and misery, of suffering and misery [...] Especially since a war that has now been sowing blood and tears on afflicted Europe for a year and a half, which has already been a year and a half A harvest never seen lasts under the bloom of nations, which breaks mother's hearts, families die out, children orphaned. Oh, what a terrible horror this world war is ”.

When the Cologne Franciscan Province ( Colonia ) was revived on April 17, 1929 , Father Thaddäus - like most members of Saxonia from the Rhineland - became a member of this province and transferred to the new religious college of Colonia in Mönchengladbach , where he studied "spiritual dominant figure ”(P. Norbert Hartmann OFM) with the subjects homiletics, exegesis and dogmatics. Until 1935 he was prefect of studies, from 1932 submagister and from 1935 to 1938 magister of the clergy. 1941-44 he served as the Definitor of the Order Province. From 1939 Soiron held guest lectures in the seminary in Aachen, from 1945 to 1951 as a "seminar professor for biblical studies". In addition to his university activities, he was for a long time a board member of the Catholic Association of Academics and held many retreat courses , retreats and conferences for priests and religious.

As a scientist, Thaddäus Soiron tried to create a contemporary exegesis, which led to resistance within the church. His work "The Holy Book" did not appear until 1928 after a ten-year delay with text changes requested by the papal authorities in Rome. He saw his exegetical research in close connection with preaching and pastoral care. He also used H. Haser and H. Ernst as pseudonyms.

Soiron founded several series of publications and magazines and edited them for several years:

  • New Testament sermons (from 1917)
  • Church and pulpit (from 1918, editor until 1936)
  • Sermon Studies. Contributions to the history, theory and practice of the sermon (from 1919, with Adolf Donders )
  • Science and wisdom. Journal of Augustinian Franciscan Theology and Philosophy in the Present. (from 1933).

Father Thaddäus Soiron last belonged to the convent of Colonia in Moresnet-Chapelle in eastern Belgium , where he died on June 30, 1957. He was buried in the Franciscan cemetery on the local Calvaire .

Publications (selection)

  • The Logia of Jesus. A literary-critical and literary historical investigation into the synoptic problem. Aschendorff, Münster iW 1916.
  • God and the war. Sermons of war about God's existence and God's attributes. Münster iW 1916.
  • The rehearsal of Christianity in the world war. Sermons of war. Munster 1917.
  • In the Lord's School of Passion. ( New Testament Sermons 2) Paderborn 1918.
  • Saint Francis and the present. Werl 1927.
  • The holy book. Introduction to the reading of the Holy Scriptures. Freiburg 1928.
  • The Gospel and the Holy Places in Palestine. Paderborn 1929.
  • [Editor:] Doctoris seraphici S. Bonaventurae Prolegomena ad sacram theologiam. Bonn 1932.
  • Human fates under the cross. Contemporary fasting sermons. Paderborn 1932.
  • Faith, Hope and Love. A book about the nature of Christian piety. Regensburg 1934.
  • The secret of the Christian school. Warendorf 1935.
  • Holy theology. Basic explanations. Regensburg 1935.
  • The secret of prayer. Freiburg 1937.
  • The Sermon on the Mount of Jesus. Formal, exegetical and theological explanation. Freiburg 1941.
  • The proclamation of the word of God. Freiburg 1943.
  • The sacramental man. About the meaning and structure of the sacraments. Freiburg 1949.
  • The Christ mystery of our life. Vienna 1948.
  • The Church as the Body of Christ. According to the teaching of St. Paul, exegetically, systematically, presented in their theological and practical meaning. Düsseldorf 1951.

literature

  • Pawel (Paul) Emanuel Duda: The theological conception of the Annunciation according to Thaddäus Soiron OFM. A historical-systematic investigation. ( Rhenania Franciscana Supplement 5) Mönchengladbach 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Jauch: Soiron, Thaddäus in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 24 (2010), p. 546 [online version]; [URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118748734.html ]; Soiron's tombstone in Moresnet-Chapelle shows his birthday as March 21, 1881.
  2. ↑ Gisela Fleckenstein ofs: Franciscans in the First World War. In: Thaw. Franciscan magazine for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation. No. 3, August 2014, pp. 14-21. here p. 19.
  3. ^ Robert Jauch: Soiron, Thaddäus in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 24 (2010), p. 546 [online version]; [URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118748734.html ]
  4. ↑ www.trois-frontieres.be: The Calvary Cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Soiron, Squidward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soiron, Hubert Heinrich Leo (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Franciscan (OFM), theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kohlscheid Church
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1957
Place of death Moresnet Chapelle , East Belgium