Herman Schell

Herman Schell - often Hermann - ( born February 28, 1850 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † May 31, 1906 in Würzburg) was a Catholic theologian and philosopher.

Life

After visiting the Grand Ducal Lyceum in Freiburg in 1868, he entered into the local Theologenkonvikt and studied at the University of Freiburg philosophy and Catholic theology, including the neo-scholastic dogmatists Constantine of Schaezler and the late Christian idealists Jacob Sengler. After he was dismissed in 1870 for disciplinary reasons from the seminary, Schell moved to the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg. There he worked with Franz Brentano, who resigned in 1879 from the Catholic Church, to his philosophical dissertation under the title The unit develops the psychic life of the principles of Aristotelian philosophy, which he submitted in 1872 but Jacob Sengler in Freiburg and in 1873 published.

Schell was since his student days in Würzburg until his death a member of the K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg in CT and was active even later in the KV. He was made an honorary member of other Catholic student associations in Wurzburg, including the KDSt.V. Cheruscia Würzburg (1898), the K.D.St.V. Gothia Würzburg (1901) and the K.D.St.V. Thuringia Würzburg (1904 ), all in the CV. For the K.D.St.V. Thuringia Würzburg he founded in the establishment phase of the corporation whose motto " Onward and upward ".

After his ordination to the priesthood on August 17, 1873 the Bishop of Würzburg Johann Valentin of Reißmann he first six years chaplain and religion teacher in Amorbach and Obertheres. In 1879 he continued his theological studies in Rome. 1881 returned, he worked in pastoral care in Margetshöchheim, Dimbach and Marktheidenfeld, while at the same time his theological dissertation completed it with the title The work of the triune God. The work was recognized University of Tübingen in November 1883 at the Eberhard Karls as a doctoral thesis and published in 1885. For the winter semester 1884/85 he was appointed as associate professor in Würzburg for apologetics, Christian art history and archeology. In 1888 he became professor of apologetics and finally Christian Archaeology. In 1890 he also took over the representation of dogmatics professor and from 1894 the science of comparative religion and the Christian history of art were added.

Between 1889 and 1893 he presented his three-volume Catholic dogma. However, an ordinary appeal to the Chair of dogmatics failed due to the intervention of the bishop. 1895/96 he published the first two volumes of his Gesamtapologetik under the title The divine truth of Christianity. Both his writings reform Catholicism as a principle of progress (1897 ) and The new time and the old faith (1898 ) made ​​him internationally known, but earned him an indexing. Schell was thus personally very concerned, he submitted to this decision and remained faithful to his church. Between 1901 and 1905 he published religion and revelation, Yahweh and Christ and Christ. The Gospel and its historical significance. These works remained unopposed.

From neo-scholastic theologians him monism, rationalism and Protestantism was, however, still accused. These disputes loaded Schell, despite the Rückhaltes by the Bishop of Würzburg Ferdinand of Schlör, also very health. On 31 May 1906 he died at only 56 years of a heart attack.

The indexed Schell theses have since been widely recognized by the second Vatican Council.

Herman Schell Institute

The Herman Schell Institute was founded in 1971 at the University of Würzburg as a scientific institution for the study of philosophical and theological work of Herman Schell. So far, the work of the Institute has been heavily influenced by the research of Josef coward, Paul -Werner Scheele and Eugen Biser.

Works (selection)

For a complete listing see Schell Institute: works

Original editions

  • The unity of the psychic life of the principles of Aristotelian philosophy developed ( Diss phil. ), Freiburg im Breisgau 1873
  • The work of the triune God ( Diss theol. ), Mainz 1885
  • Catholic Dogmatics Volume 1: From the sources of Christian revelation. From God's existence and nature. Schöningh, Paderborn 1889
  • Volume 2: The theology of the triune God. The cosmology of the disclosure. Schöningh, Paderborn 1891
  • Volume 3: Incarnation and Redemption. Sanctification and perfection. Schöningh, Paderborn 1893
  • Volume 1: God and Spirit. Part One: Basic issues. Schöningh, Paderborn 1895
  • Volume 2: God and Spirit. Second part: proof. Schöningh, Paderborn 1896
  • Volume 1: Religion and Revelation. Schöningh, Paderborn 1902
  • Volume 2: Yahweh and Christ. Schöningh, Paderborn 1905

Newer editions

  • Catholic dogma. Critical Edition, edited, introduced and annotated by Joseph Hasenfuß ( Volume 3 by Heinrich Petri ) and Paul -Werner Scheele. Schöningh, Munich / Paderborn / Vienna 1968-94
  • Apology of Christianity ( emphasis in a band of Paderborn from 1902 to 1905 ). Minerva, Frankfurt 1967, ISBN 3-86598-356-1
  • The work of the triune God (reprint of Mainz 1885). Minerva, Frankfurt 1968, ISBN 3-86598-371-5
  • The divine truth of Christianity. God and Spirit ( emphasis in a band of Paderborn from 1895 to 1896 ). Minerva, Frankfurt 1968, ISBN 3-86598-171-2
  • Herman Schell, the new time and the old faith. Four theological writings program ( ed. by Thomas Franz ). True, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-429-02847-7
  • The cultural importance of the world's religions. Five religion scientific papers ( ed. by Thomas Franz ). True, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-429-02849-3

Literature (selection )

For a complete listing see Schell Institute: Secondary Literature

  • Karl Haus Berger: Herman Schell ( 1850-1906 ). A theologian fate under the spell of modernism controversy. ( = Sources and studies to more recent history of theology 3) Pustet, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7917-1663-8.
  • Raimund Lachner: Herman Schell. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1, Sp 88-99. (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )
  • Otmar Meuffels, Rainer Dvorak ( eds. ): Truth of God - freedom of thought. Herman Schell as inspiration for theology and church. Commemorative volume on the occasion of his 150th birthday. Schöningh ( sources and research on the history of the diocese and the Bishopric of Würzburg 57), Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-87717-061-7.
  • Karl Josef Rivinius: fundamentalism and reform Catholicism the controversy surrounding Herman Schell, in Wilfried Loth ( eds.): German Catholicism in transition to modernity ( = denomination and society 3 ), Stuttgart 1991, pp. 199-218.
  • Paul -Werner Scheele: Herman Schell dialog. Contributions to the work and the effect of Herman Schell. True, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-429-02819-1.
  • Paul -Werner Scheele: The one faith and the many religions. The contribution Herman Schell on interreligious dialogue. In: Thomas Franz, Hanjo Sauer ( ed.): belief in the world today. Theology and Church after the Second Vatican Council. Festschrift Elmar Klinger. Vol 2: fields of discourse. Real Verlag, Wurzburg, 2006. ISBN 978-3-429-02854-1, pp. 228-243.
  • Otto Weiss: Schell, Jacob Herman. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2, pp. 648 f ( digitized ).
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