Joseph Hubert Reinkens

Joseph Hubert Reinkens ( born March 1, 1821 in Burtscheid, † January 4, 1896 in Bonn ) was a German high school teacher and a Roman Catholic priest. He is one of the founders and was the first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany.

Life

Reinkens came from a little wealthy and large family. After 1836 his mother died and his father was unable to work, he was for a time factory workers in neighboring Aachen, before he could attend the high school in 1840. From 1844, he studied Catholic theology and classical philology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Consecrated on September 3, 1848 in Cologne as a priest, he was followed by a further study of church history in Bonn. After 1850 in Munich Clement of Alexandria doctorate as a theologian, a doctor of theology, he got a position as lecturer at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau, where he habilitated. In 1853 he became an associate professor and deputy preacher 1857 professor of church history. 1865/66 he was rector of the University of Breslau.

In the erupted between the Bishop Heinrich Förster and Johann Baptist Baltzer conflict he stood on the side of the latter; imposed for the former due to the font Pope and the Papacy after the drawing of St. Bernard (Münster 1870) a disciplinary investigation into the author. With Ignaz von Dollinger, Johann Friedrich von Schulte and Franz Heinrich Reusch he designed on 26 and 27 August 1870, the Nuremberg Declaration against the First Vatican Council and since then devoted himself entirely to the cause of Old Catholics, who in him on June 4, 1873 Cologne chose for their first bishop. On August 11, 1873 he was consecrated at Rotterdam by Hermann Heykamp, the Old Catholic bishop of Deventer, a bishop. Until his death in 1896, he headed the German diocese.

The philosophical faculty of the University of Leipzig in 1871 awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Works

  • De Clemente presbytero Alexandrino theo logo. Wroclaw 1850
  • Hilary of Poitiers: A monograph. Schaffhausen 1864
  • Martin of Tours, the miraculous monk and bishop in his life and work. Wroclaw 1866
  • The philosophy of history of St. Augustine: a review of evidence of materialism against the existence of the spirit; Speech delivered at the takeover of the Rectorate of the University of Breslau on October 15, 1865. Schaffhausen 1866. Digitized version
  • The papal decrees of 18 July 1870. Reprint of the orig outputs. of 1897. Vienna 1870. microfiche edition. Egelsbach; Cologne; New York
  • About papal infallibility: some reflections. Munich 1870
  • Revolution and the Church. Answering a question of the day with regard to the current trend and practice of the Roman Curie, 6 vols. Bonn 1876
  • Concerning the unity of the Catholic Church. Würzburg 1877
  • Luise Hensel and their songs. Bonn 1877
  • Amalie of Lasaulx a confessor. Bonn 1878
  • Melchior von Diepenbrock. A time - and life image. Leipzig 1881
  • Lessing about tolerance, Leipzig 1883
  • Pastoral letters / by Joseph Hubert Reinkens. After his death published by the synod representative. Reprint of the original edition of 1897, Bonn. Alt- Catholic Ordinariate 2002
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