Theodor Maas-Ewerd

Theodor Maas-Ewerd (born February 6, 1935 in Senden ; † September 20, 2002 in Klosterneuburg ) was professor of liturgical science at the Catholic University of Eichstätt .

Life

After graduating from high school , Theodor Maas-Ewerd entered the seminary in Münster and studied philosophy and theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University there and in Passau . In 1961 he was ordained a priest .

Scientific career

In 1967 he was with a dissertation on liturgy and parish. Influence of the liturgical renewal on the life and understanding of the parish in the German-speaking area, PhD at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. In 1976 his habilitation in liturgical science also took place in Münster.

After receiving a teaching position at the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1978 , he was appointed full professor of liturgical science at the Catholic University of Eichstätt in 1980, where he taught until his retirement in 2000.

Honors

• Papal Honorary Prelate , 1986
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, 2000
• Canonicus honorarius (Augustinian Canons Monastery Klosterneuburg), 2001

Publications

(Selection)

• Liturgy and parish. Influence of the liturgical renewal on the life and understanding of the parish in the German-speaking area. Munster 1969.
• The crisis of the liturgical movement in Germany and Austria. Studies on the disputes over the “liturgical question” in the years from 1939 to 1944. Regensburg 1981.
• From pronaus to homily. A piece of “liturgy” in recent history and pastoral present. Eichstatt 1991.

literature

• Bert Wendel:  Theodor Maas-Ewerd. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 929-940.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Maas-Ewerd in the catalog of the German National Library