Wilhelm Capitaine

Wilhelm Capitaine (also: Wilhelm Baron von Capitaine or Wilhelm von Capitaine , pseudonyms : W. Capy , Johann Walter Neumann , born March 3, 1871 in Pier ( Düren district ), † September 14, 1948 in Cologne-Junkersdorf ) was a German Priest , educator and writer .

Life

Wilhelm Capitaine was the son of a bricklayer. He attended elementary school and then the grammar school in Düren . After graduating from high school , he studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn . In 1895 he entered the Cologne Seminary and was on 2 July 1896 in Cologne Cathedral by Philipp Cardinal Krementz for ordained priests . After helping out as a seminary chaplain in Mützenich , he was appointed chaplain in Gangelt on July 22, 1896 and chaplain in Grevenbroich on August 24, 1897 . There he also worked as a senior teacher . In 1898 he earned his doctorate in theology at the University of Münster with a thesis in Latin on the church father Origen . On May 3, 1900, he was appointed religion teacher at the Progymnasium in Eschweiler . After this school had been elevated to a full high school in 1902 , Capitaine was promoted to senior teacher on April 1, 1902 and professor in 1911 . On April 1, 1912, he was appointed professor and on April 1, 1914, director of the Eschweiler Realschule .

In 1917 Wilhelm Capitaine's career as a teacher ended under unexplained circumstances; he then worked as a chaplain . Until 1919 he was a divisional pastor in Potsdam , after which he wrote journalistic articles in English for American newspapers as a church correspondent . From 1926 to 1946 Capitaine lived as a pastor in what is now Cologne's Junkersdorf district, which was part of the Lövenich community during his lifetime . His grave was in his hometown of Pier . The resettlement of Pier resulted in a reburial in the Pier cemetery (Langerwehe) .

In addition to theological treatises, writings on local history and school books for religious instruction, Wilhelm von Capitaine also wrote - under pseudonyms - novels , stories , poems and plays , mainly on historical topics from his home region.

Works

• De Origenis ethica , Monasterii Guestf. 1898 (under the name Guilelmus Capitaine)
• The converted poet , Essen-Ruhr 1902 (under the name W. Capy)
• On the history of socialism and social democracy , Berlin 1902
• The moral of Clemens of Alexandria , Paderborn 1903
• Jesus of Nazareth , Regensburg 1905
• The school system in Great Britain , Eschweiler
  • 1 (1907)
  • 2 (1909)
• Textbook of the Catholic religion for the upper classes of higher educational institutions , Cologne
  • 1. Apologetics , 1908
  • 2. Church history , 1909
  • 3. Dogmatics , 1909
  • 4. Moral doctrine , 1909
• The blacksmith of Aachen , Aachen 1909 (under the name JW Neumann)
• Between Rur and Wehebach , Düren 1909 (under the name Johann Walter Neumann)
• Jakobe von Jülich , Jülich 1910 (under the name Johann Walter Neumann)
• Church history for the middle classes of higher education institutions , Cologne 1910
• Chronicle of Eschweiler , Eschweiler 1911
• Gott und Götter , Paderborn 1911 (under the name Johann Walter Neumann)
• The Gymnicher Ritt, its history and celebration , Eschweiler 1912
• Im Kirschenhof , Eschweiler 1912 (under the name Johann Walter Neumann)
• Nothberg , Eschweiler 1914
• Germany in World War I , Eschweiler 1915 (under the name Johann Walter Neumann)
• Three German women , Warendorf iW 1916
• My mother! , Eschweiler 1916
• The ULF church in Liesse , Eschweiler 1917
• The Virgin of the Thorn Pasture , Jülich 1922
• The Catholic clergyman , Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1923
• The aldermen of Erkelenz , 1926
• The Pierer dialect, its grammar, literature and lexicon , Aachen 1930

Others

In honor of Wilhelm Capitaine, the former Dorfstrasse in Cologne-Junkersdorf was renamed Wilhelm-von-Capitaine-Strasse. In the old pier there was Prof-v.-Capitaine-Strasse southwest of Pierer Strasse. A street in Neu-Pier is also named after Capitaine.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The title of nobility, which appears in Capitaines publications only after the First World War, was obviously the product of a self-ennoblement carried out since 1902 ; There is no documentary evidence of an actual noble descent of the author, cf. the last paragraph of the biographical article cited under "Weblinks"
2. ↑ Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne, 23rd edition, Cologne 1933, p. 731.
3. ↑ City Archives Erkelenz 33.1.3
4. ↑ Did you already know why there is Wilhelm-Capitaine-Strasse in Cologne-Junkersdorf? (Not available online.) In: welt.de . Formerly in the original