Wilhelm Tangermann

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Bronze relief by the sculptor Johann Baptist Schreiner 1910

Friedrich Wilhelm Tangermann (born July 6, 1815 in Essen , † October 4, 1907 in Cologne ) was a Roman Catholic, later Old Catholic theologian and writer .

Life

As the son of a bourgeois family living in simple circumstances, he had to take up the trade after the early death of his father. This dissatisfied, he began 1839 in Münster , the study of theology , which he in 1842 Munich continued. In 1844 he was accepted into the archbishop's clerical seminary in Cologne, and in the following year he was ordained a priest. After several parish administrations and many years of activity as a pastor in Neuss , he took over a pastor's office in Unkel in 1864 . In 1867 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD in Würzburg . Due to differences with his ecclesiastical superiors, especially on the question of the papal infallibility dogma , he was removed from office in 1870. He then lived in Bonn until he became a preacher in the Old Catholic community in Cologne in 1872 . In 1888 he retired from this position and devoted himself to writing . He published some of his works under the pseudonym Viktor Granella .

He was part of the circle around Christoph Bernhard Schlüter and was in contact with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff .

Grave site in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 102) . The tomb was designed in 1910 by the sculptor Johann Baptist Schreiner .

Publications (selection)

  • Truth, Beauty and Love ”, philosophical-aesthetic studies (Leipz. 1867);
  • Patriotic songs and contemporary poems ”(Bonn 1871);
  • From two worlds. Truth and Poetry "(Leipz. 1871); Diotima ”, a cultural-historical novella (Cologne and Leipz. 1873); * Heart and World «, poems (Leipz. 1876);
  • Sion's Harp Sounds «(Bonn 1886). Published under his real name:
  • On the characteristics of church conditions ”(Leipz. 1874);
  • Philosophy and Christianity in their relationship to the cultural and religious question ”(das. 1876);
  • The liberal principle in its ethical significance for state and church etc. «(3rd edition, Cologne 1886);
  • Philosophy and Poetry ", sonnet wreaths (das. 1886);
  • New spring, new life. Contemplations of time «(Essen 1889);
  • Nature and Spirit ”, speculative discussions (Gotha 1894);
  • Life, Light and Love ”, a Christmas gift (Leipz. 1894);
  • Morning and evening. Memories, life pictures, etc. Self-confessions ”(das. 1895);
  • Flowers and Stars ”, poems (das. 1896);
  • Knowledge and love, the most beautiful guiding stars in life ", poems (Essen 1906)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 19. Leipzig 1909, p. 308
  2. ↑ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, volume 2. Leipzig 1911., p. 806
  3. ^ Franz Brümmer , Lexicon of German poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century, Salzwasser-Verlag, p. 271
  4. ^ Wilhelm Tangermann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
personal data
SURNAME Tangermann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tangermann, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1907
Place of death Cologne