Wilhelm Wilmers

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Wilhelm Wilmers (born January 30, 1817 in Boke an der Lippe , † May 9, 1899 in Roermond ) was a German theologian and Jesuit . He is considered an influential theologian at the First Vatican Council .

Life

Wilmers attended the Paderborn grammar school and entered the Jesuit order on September 29, 1834 in Brig , Switzerland . He studied rhetoric at the college in Brig and philosophy at the college St. Michael in Freiburg im Üechtland . He then returned to the college in Brig, where he worked from 1844 to 1847 as a high school teacher . He returned to the theological faculty of the college in Freiburg to complete his theological studies, but was expelled to Chambéry by the Sonderbund War. On June 4, 1848, he was ordained a priest in southern France.

Wilmers was professor of philosophy at the Jesuit college in Issenheim , professor of the introduction to the Holy Scriptures at the college in Löwen and from 1853 to 1856 professor of dogmatics at the branch in Cologne . He then taught from 1856 to 1860 as professor of metaphysics and prefect of studies in Bonn . The Cardinal and Archbishop of Cologne Johannes von Geissel appointed him in 1860 as a personal theologian for the Cologne Provincial Council . He was then from 1860 to 1863 professor at the branch in Aachen and from 1863 to 1865 at the Collegium Maximum Maria Laach . In 1866 he appeared briefly as a tutor in the seminar in Regensburg before teaching again as a professor of dogmatics in Maria Laach from 1867 to 1869.

Wilmers was from 1869 to 1870 as theologian of Bishop Léon Meurin (1825-1895) participant in the First Vatican Council . During the conquest of Rome by royal Italian troops, which ended the council , he was a military chaplain with the papal troops. He is credited with the authorship of the ex sese in the Constitution Pastor Aeternus of the Council, which underlines that the Pope's infallibility in high-ranking doctrinal decisions does not depend on the consent of the episcopate.

After the council, Wilmers lived as a writer in various places in Germany and Denmark from 1871 to 1875 . In 1876 he followed a call from Cardinal Louis-Édouard Pie as a full professor of dogmatics at the theological faculty of the University of Poitiers . In 1881 he went to the Jesuit College in Saint Helier on the island of Jersey as a professor of dogmatics . He then lived until 1892 as a writer in Ditton-Hall in England . In August 1892 he moved to the Jesuit establishment at Exaten Castle in the Netherlands .

Wilmers died in Roermond Hospital in 1899.

Works (selection)

Textbook of Religion , Münster 1886
  • Textbook of Religion , 4 volumes, Aschendorff, Münster 1855–1857.
  • History of religion as evidence of divine revelation and its preservation by the church , Münster, 2 volumes, 1856.
  • Philosophy as part of general intellectual education , 1858.
  • Det protestantiske og katolske Troesprincip , 1875.

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  1. ↑ The French protecting power had withdrawn because of the Franco-German War .
personal data
SURNAME Wilmers, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Boke on the lip
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1899
Place of death Roermond