Hubert Jedin
Hubert Jedin (* June 17, 1900 in Gross Briesen at peace Walde, Upper Silesia, † July 16, 1980 in Bonn ) was a German church historian and Roman Catholic priest.
Life
Jedin enjoyed a classical education, studied from 1918 Theology and History in Munich, Freiburg and Breslau, where he was ordained a priest in 1924. In 1925 he received his doctorate at the famous church historian Franz Xaver Seppelt. Later in 1930 he habilitated with a biography of Cardinal Girolamo Seripando. This work was created during a period of study in Rome from 1926 until 1930. Jedin was chaplain at the Campo Santo Teutonico, then fellow of the Gorres Society. Until 1933, he taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Catholic Theology University of Breslau, then it was revoked by the Nazis venia legendi, as his mother was of Jewish descent. In October 1933 he again went to Rome. 1936 appointed him Cardinal Bertram to the diocese archivist, the full establishment of this office, however, was prevented by the government. After his temporary arrest after Kristallnacht in 1938 Jedin planned to return to Rome, giving him only a year later was possible. There he devoted himself, sponsored by Cardinal Giovanni Mercati, the work on the history and on the edition of the Acts of the Council of Trent. During his years in Rome, he was in close contact with the originating also from Germany church historians Hermann Hoberg and Friedrich Kempf SJ. When the Wehrmacht 1943/44, Rome occupied, Jedin could not leave the Vatican.
In 1946 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Church History at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Bonn, in 1949 he accepted a call to a professorship in Bonn and returned to Germany. In 1951 he was appointed professor of medieval and modern church history emeritus in 1965. At the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 Jedin took a so-called Peritus, ie in part as a consulting theologian, after he had been consulted before the opening of a preparatory commission.
In 1973, the Italian- German Historical Institute ( Isig ) was founded on the initiative of the Istituto Trentino di Cultura of Hubert Jedin and Paolo Prodi.
The diary of Hubert Jedin is owned by Konrad Repgen, in 1984, a mainly written by Jedin 1960-1975 "Life Report" published.
Work
His most significant scientific achievements are a four-volume ( in part 5 volumes) history of the Council of Trent and the publication and co-authorship of the multi-volume manual of church history, which has remained the standard work for this discipline. Jedin is considered one of the most outstanding church historian of the 20th century, both because of the breadth of his scientific research field, and also because of his gift as a scientific organizer. The general public are Jedin was known for his Little of councils, with whom he has established a standard work on the introduction to the history of the councils of the Catholic Church.
Hubert Jedin has, inter alia, in his research also deals with the periodization and concept formation. Wilhelm Maurenbrecher replaced the era term " Counter-Reformation " with " Catholic Reformation ," which indicate the phase of the renewal movement within the Catholic Church was meant after the Reformation. Hubert Jedin (Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation. An attempt to clarify the concepts together with an anniversary reflection on the Council of Trent, Lucerne 1946) now replaces the term " Catholic Reformation " due to a review of Hermann Baumgarten Moors crusher main work of 1880 and own studies with " Catholic reform. " The term of Jedin did not sit down unconditionally by, but will continue to speak of " Reformation Catholic Reform Counter-Reformation ". The Periodisierungsbegriff Jedins was supplanted increasingly by the term "age of confessionalisation " by Wolfgang Reinhard and Ernst Walter Zeeden ( 1916-2011 ). This term now covers the period from the 16th to the 18th century and thus for the period between the Reformation and the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia not an effective substitute term for " Counter-Reformation " was created. The concept of confessionalisation includes the modernization paradigm with a.
Awards and honors
Jedin was awarded several honorary doctorates and other honors. Among other Jedin in 1978 received the honorary ring of the Gorres Society. He was elected foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome in 1968.