Joseph Langen

Joseph Long ( born June 3, 1837 in Cologne, † July 13, 1901 in Bonn) was a Roman Catholic, later Old Catholic theologian and university lecturer.

Life

Joseph Langen visited the Cologne Marzellengymnasium, after which he studied from 1855 to 1858 Catholic theology in Bonn, including Franz Heinrich Reusch. After completing his theological and philosophical studies he received in 1859 ordained a priest and worked as a chaplain in Wevelinghoven and from 1860 as Repetent at the Catholic Theological Seminary in Bonn. In 1861 he received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau, a doctor of theology.

In 1864, Long was first an associate, then the called according to his habilitation in 1867 as full professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Bonn. From 1866 to 1877 he worked at the Theological literature sheet. As Langen itself - just like his teacher Reusch and his faculty colleague Bernhard Josef Hilgers - refused to accept the decrees of the First Vatican Council, he lost in 1871, the Church's teaching license and he was excommunicated on 23 March 1872 Archbishop Melchers.

After the formation of a German Old Catholic Diocese of Joseph Langen worked as pastor until 1878 in Bonn. He published various catechetical writings and took in the years 1874 and 1875 at the " Bonner Union conferences " with representatives of the Anglican and Orthodox Churches part. Who would like to maintain celibacy - - Having been in the Old Catholic Church in 1878 of compulsory celibacy was abolished, to Long withdrew from the church life. He held, however, until his death in lectures for students of the Old Catholic theology; Of 1883/84 he was also Rector of the University of Bonn.