Wilhelm Pichler (priest)

Wilhelm Pichler (born May 11, 1862 in Großkrut ; † March 3, 1938 in Vienna ) was a Roman Catholic priest and religious educator.

life and work

Wilhelm Pichler studied Catholic theology in Vienna (1880–82 and 1884–87) and at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome (1882–84) and was ordained a priest in 1887 . From 1903 he worked as a catechist in Vienna. He built his religious didactics on the teachings of Otto Willmann . With his work Catholic Religious Booklet for the lower classes , introduced in 1931 , the content of religious instruction was reformed.

The Catholic Catechism of the Dioceses of Germany , developed in 1955 on behalf of the German bishops by Klemens Tilmann (1904–1984) and Franz Schreibmayr (1907–1985), followed the didactic catechisms of Heinrich Stieglitz and Wilhelm Pichler.

Works

• Catholic religion booklet ; Innsbruck, Vienna: Tyrolia, 1931 ¹¹
• Religious booklet of the Catholic religion for the lower level of parish catechism: Diocesan catechism of the Archdiocese of Trento and the Diocese of Bressanone ; Brixen, Bozen: Vogelweider, 1932
• Small Catechism of the Catholic Religion. Extract from the Great Catechism of the Catholic Religion approved by the entire Austrian episcopate ; 1932 (new edition 2005)
• Catholic religion book. Biblical story ; St. Andrä-Wölker: Mediatrix-Verlag, 2007; ISBN 978-3-85406-181-6

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch: The Catholic Germany , Volume 2; Augsburg: Haas & Grabherr, 1937
• F. Loidl:  Pichler Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 58 f. (Direct links on p. 58 , p. 59 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Pichler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alois Payer (Ed.): Small Catechism of the Catholic Religion (1932) by Wilhelm Pichler

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Theological Real Encyclopedia" Theological Real Encyclopedia on Google Books