Augustinus Bludau

Augustinus Bludau ( born March 6, 1862 in Guttstadt, Warmia, † February 9, 1930 in women Castle ) was a Catholic theologian and Bishop of Warmia.

Life

Born the son of a master tailor visited in Elbing high school and studied since 1883 at the Lyceum Hosianum in Brown Mountain and philosophy from the winter semester 1884/85 theology. There he was an active member of the Catholic Student Association Warmia in CT. On March 13, 1887, he was ordained a priest in women Castle and was for two years a chaplain in Marienwerderstraße. From 1889 to 1891 he continued his theological studies in Münster continued he. Awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity completed. In 1894 he was chancellor of the seminary and prefect at the bishop Knabenkonvikt the Lyceum Hosianum. In 1895 he was an associate professor of New Testament exegesis and in 1899 as a full professor of New Testament at the University of Münster.

On November 26, 1908, the cathedral chapter elected him Bishop of Warmia. The bishop He was ordained on June 20, 1909 by the Apostolic Vicar of the Saxon dominions, Aloys Schaefer, in the cathedral of Mrs. Castle. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Kulm, Augustine Rosentreter, and the Warmia Bishop Edward Herrmann.

Bludau was scientifically active as a bishop, as far as it allowed his office. Since 1907 he was co-editor of the Theological Review, and in 1908 the New Testament essays. In addition, was an enthusiastic member of the KV. He took over at its Urverbindung in brown mountain board position and held lectures there. Later, he was also an honorary Philistine king Berger KV connections Borussia and Tannenberg.

Augustinus Bludau was buried in the chapel of Szembeckschen Mrs. Burger Cathedral.

Works

• The Alexandrian translation of the Book of Daniel and their relationship to the Massoretic text, Herder, Freiburg 1897
• The first two Erasmus editions of the New Testament and their opponents, Herder, Freiburg 1902
• Jews and persecution of the Jews in ancient Alexandria, Aschendorff, Münster 1906
• The first opponents of the Johannine writings, Herder, Freiburg 1925
• The writing forgeries of heretics. A contribution to the textual criticism of the Bible, Herder, Freiburg 1925
• The pilgrimage of Aetheria, Schöningh, Paderborn 1927
• The Egyptian Libelli and the persecution of the Emperor Decius, Herder, Freiburg 1931