Winfried Hümpfner

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Winfried Hümpfner (born August 4, 1889 in Aidhausen ; † November 3, 1962 ) was a German Augustinian , Medievalist and parapsychologist .

life and work

Hümpfner entered the Order of the Augustinian Hermits (OESA) in 1909 and was ordained a priest in 1914. He studied theology at the University of Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1930. From 1931 to 1947 he was in the service of the order leadership in Rome.

In the process of the beatification of Anna Katharina Emmerick , Hümpfner provided evidence in a scientific study of the credibility of Clemens Brentano's records in 1923 that Brentano's records did not match Emmerick's visions, whereupon the process was discontinued in 1928 and only reopened in 1973. Hümpfner was a recognized researcher in the field of religiously motivated visions and parapsychology .

Winfried Hümpfner must not be confused with the Cistercian monk Tiburtius Hümpfner .

Works

  • Clemens Brentano's credibility in his Emmerick records. Investigation of the Brentano-Emmerick question using Brentano's diaries for the first time. St. Rita Verlag, 1923 Würzburg (dissertation, Würzburg 1930).
  • La Fede storica dei Clemente Brentano nelle Note sulla Serva di Dio Anna Caterina Emmerick. St. Rita Verlag, Würzburg 1924; Rome 1927.
  • as editor: Diary of Dr. med. Franz Wilhelm Wesener on the Augustinian Anna Katharina Emmerick. St. Rita Verlag, Würzburg 1925; Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1973.
  • as editor: files of the church investigation into the stigmatized Augustinian Anna Kath. Emmerick, together with contemporary voices. St. Rita Verlag, Würzburg 1929.
  • as ed. with Rudolph Arbesmann : Jordani de Saxonia , ordinis eremitarum S. Augustini Liber vitasfratrum (= Classiciacum. Volume 1). Cosmopolitan science and art service, New York 1943.
  • as translator and editor with Adolar Zumkeller : The rules of St. Augustine. Einsiedeln 1947.
  • L'Interpretazione di Fenomeni Metapsichici; ovvero, L'Anima in Metapsichica (= Piccola biblioteca di metapsichica. Volume 5). ESIM, Rome 1951.

literature

  • Helene Pleasants (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. Helix Press, New York 1964.

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personal data
SURNAME Hümpfner, Winfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humpfner, Winfried Goswin; Hümpfner, Winfridus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Augustinian monk, medievalist and parapsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Aidhausen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1962