Johannes von Kuhn

Evangelist John Kuhn ( born February 19, 1806 Waeschenbeuren; † May 8, 1887 in Tübingen ) was a German Catholic theologian.

John Kuhn attended from 1818 to 1821 the Latin School in Gmünd, from 1821 to 1824, the upper secondary school in Ellwangen and from 1824 to 1825, the upper secondary school in Rottweil. 1825 to 1830 he studied Catholic theology in Wilhelmstift in Tübingen. In the fall of 1830 Kuhn entered the seminary at Rottenburg am Neckar, he was ordained a priest on September 14, 1831.

He joined in 1832 as a professor in Giessen, before becoming a professor of dogmatic theology in Tübingen from 1837. From 1848 to 1852 he was a member of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies. In 1857 he was elected to the State Court. In 1862 he participated in the meeting of the Greater German in Frankfurt and the founding of the German Reform Association. From 1868 until his death he had a mandate in the Württemberg Chamber of lords.

John Kuhn was the greatest systematic theologian of the Tübingen school. He was a staunch opponent of the neo-scholasticism and called for the independence of philosophy from theology.

Kuhn was in Catholic theology long forgotten. The theologian Josef Rupert Geiselmann and Heinrich Fries have rendered outstanding services to a new discovery Kuhns.

John Kuhn was awarded in 1850 the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which was connected with the personal titles of nobility. In addition, he was awarded the Kommenturkreuz the Friedrichs- Order.

Works

• Catholic dogma. 3 unfinished volumes. Tübingen from 1846 to 1859.
• Philosophy and theology. Tübingen 1860.
• The Christian doctrine of divine grace. Tübingen 1868.
• A free Catholic university in Germany and the freedom of science. Tübingen: Laupp, 1863.