Wilhelm Keilbach
Wilhelm Keilbach (born September 10, 1908 in Ernőháza ( German Ernsthausen ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † October 25, 1982 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and religious psychologist .
academic career
Keilbach studied at the Germanikum in Rome from 1928 to 1935 . In 1933 he was ordained a priest in Rome ; there he also obtained a doctorate in theology in 1935. In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zagreb and was appointed full professor there in 1943; In 1955 he was dean of the theological faculty. In 1955 he moved to the University of Vienna , where in the same year he was able to set up an institute for religious studies - the first in Austria - but accepted a position at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich the following spring . As a professor of systematic scholastic philosophy, he was dean of the theological faculty in Munich in 1960 and 1961. At the instigation of the Protestant theologian and religious psychologist Werner Gruehn , Keilbach was his successor in 1961 as managing director and board member of the International Society for Religious Psychology . Until his retirement in 1974 he was chairman of the company and gave decisive impetus to its reorganization.
Works (selection)
- The problem of religions: A study of the philosophy of religion with special consideration of the new psychology of religion . Schöningh, Paderborn 1936. (Dissertation)
- Religious experience. Enlightenment attempts in the psychology of religion, parapsychology and psychopharmacology. Schöningh, Paderborn 1973.
- Religion and Religions - Thoughts on Their Foundation . Schöningh, Paderborn 1976.
Awards and honors
- Honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Zagreb, 1970
- Honorary Doctor of Theology from Uppsala University , 1975
literature
- Charlotte Hörgl, Kurt Krenn , Fritz Rauh: Essence and ways of religion . Hueber, Munich 1969, DNB 458624470 .
- Union Diplomatique Mondiale (ed.): Munich prominence 1962-1963 . UDM-Verlag, Munich around 1962, OCLC 73651118 .
- Anton Vorbichler: Religious and Mission Studies . In: Ernst Chr. Suttner: The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, 1884-1984. Commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-428-05577-2 .
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Keilbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Liturgical calendar October 2007 ( Memento of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Archdiocese of Salzburg , PDF document, accessed on February 24, 2010.
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SURNAME | Keilbach, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic theologian and religious psychologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ernsthausen, today Banatski Despotovac |
DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1982 |
Place of death | Munich |