Theodor Abele

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Theodor Anton Abele (born June 14, 1879 in Marktlustenau , † April 29, 1965 in Werl ) was a German theologian and educator .

Life

Abele was born as the son of a teacher in Marktlustenau / Württemberg. After graduating from high school in Landshut / Bavaria, he studied theology and philology at the universities of Munich , Tübingen , Würzburg and Strasbourg . There he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1906.

As a teacher, he initially taught at the Oberrealschule in Metz and at the Latin and Realschule in Markirch / Alsace. In 1914 he married Josefa Wegener from Werl / Westphalia.

From 1914 to 1918 Abele took part in the First World War. After the war he had to leave Alsace, which had returned to France . Since then he has taught at the municipal Mariengymnasium Werl .

Even before the First World War, Abele was one of the first lay people to advocate liturgical renewal in the Catholic Church, as was finally realized in the Second Vatican Council . This happened above all within the framework of the Association of Academically Educated Catholics, an academic circle that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century in Metz , Strasbourg and Würzburg around Abele and his friend Hermann Platz, who later also worked in the school service the relocation from Platz had shifted its focus to Düsseldorf and Bonn. In the context of this circle also included Robert Schuman (1886-1963), Heinrich Bruening , Paul Simon , Alois Dempf and Franz Xaver Münch .

Together with Joseph Aussem (1888–1956) and August Heinrich Berning (1895–1979), he published the magazine Das Wort in der Zeit .

Abele taught in Werl until 1949 and advocated European unification.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Markomannia Würzburg and AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

Works

  • Happiness of Childhood, A Book of Remembrance and Reflection. Paderborn 1940

literature

  • Theodor Abele on his 85th birthday, by August H. Berning, in: Heimatkalender des Kreis Soest 37 (1964), pp. 60–62

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