Wilhelm Keilbach

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Liturgical calendar October 2007 ( Memento of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Archdiocese of Salzburg , PDF document, accessed on February 24, 2010.
personal data
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