Johann Friedrich von Schulte

Johann Friedrich ( Knight ) of Schulte ( born April 23 1827 in Winterberg, Westphalia, † December 19, 1914 in Maia, Merano ) was a professor of civil and canon law and legal history in Bonn and Prague.

He is considered the most important teaching of the Catholic Church law in 19th century Germany.

Life

Johann Friedrich von Schulte was born on 23 April 1827 as the third child of the same physician Johann Friedrich Schulte in Winterberg. After school he studied, among others in Berlin jurisprudence and was court clerk in Fredeburg. At the age of 26, he was a lecturer at the 1854 Bonn Law School and a year later in 1855, full professor ( Professor ) of Canon Law and the German Legal History at the Charles University in Prague. 1863 Schulte became an honorary member of the Catholic Stdudentenverbindung Askania (now KStV Askania Burgundia ) in CT. 1869 made ​​him Emperor Franz Josef in the hereditary nobility. In 1873 he return to Bonn. He taught there for 33 years until 1906 as a professor of canon law at the University of Bonn. From 1881 to 1882 he was Rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. Furthermore, there was Johann Friedrich von Schulte in the years 1871 to 1890 President of the Old Catholic Congresses and 1873-1890 Vice Chairman of the Old Catholic Synodalvertretung in Germany. In the period 1874-1879 he was also a member of the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party. Friedrich Ritter von Schulte died on December 19, 1914 in Merano Maia district.

Effect

Schulte rejected the First Vatican Council strictly and put Ignaz von Dollinger, consequently, with Franz Heinrich Reusch and later Bishop Joseph Hubert Reinkens the foundation for the Old Catholic Church in Germany. He worked the basic canonical templates for the organization of the Old Catholic Church in Germany and wrote in its basic features valid today Synodal and Local Government Law of 1874, the "Basic Law " of the Old Catholic Church in Germany.

Works

  • The history of the sources and literature of the canon law of Gratian to the present day. 4 volumes. Bonn from 1875 to 1880; Reprint 1956 Academic Printing and Publishing Company Graz
  • Textbook of Catholic and Protestant church law. 4th edition of the Catholic, the Protestant 1st, 1886
  • The Old Catholicism - history of its development, interior design and legal position in Germany. Shown from the documents and other authentic sources. Casting in 1887; Reprinted Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1965
  • The position of the councils, popes and bishops from the historical and canonical positions and the papal constitution of 18 July 1870. Using the source documents. Prague 1871; Reprinted Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1970
  • Memoirs. Three volumes. Pour 1908-1909
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