Joseph Lortz

Joseph (Adam) Lortz ( born December 13, 1887 in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg, † February 21, 1975 in Luxembourg (city) ) was a Roman Catholic church historian. He was regarded as a recognized researcher and Reformation ecumenicist.

Life

Joseph Lortz, the second youngest of seven children, studied philosophy and theology in Rome from 1907 to 1911 and from 1911 to 1913 at the University of Freiburg. In 1913 he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Luxembourg. From 1913 to 1923 he lived in Bonn, where the church and Reformation historian Heinrich Schrörs ( 1852-1928 ), Joseph Greving and Albert Ehrhard influenced his future career. In 1917 he was scientific secretary of the editorship of the corpus Catholicorum.

In 1920 he received his doctorate at the University of Bonn, 1923, he habilitated at the University of Würzburg. He was then at the Department of Sebastian Merkle as a private act. In parallel, he was chaplain in Würzburg. In 1929 he was appointed to a professorship at the State Academy Brown Mountain ( Lyceum Hosianum ) in East Prussia. After the " seizure of power" by the Nazis in 1933, he published the treatise Catholic access to National Socialism, in which he affirmed the essential principles of Nazism. In 1935, he moved to the chair of general church history with consideration of the mission history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Lortz, a member of the Nazi party, came in 1938 from the party.

After the war he taught from 1950 until his death in 1975 at the University of Mainz, he was also director of the Institute for European History in Mainz in the Department of Occidental religious history.

He was a member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Teutonia in Freiburg / Fribourg in the CV.

Lortz has written several works for the understanding of the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation. The best-known work was the work of the Reformation in Germany.

Known Lortz students are Armin Lindauer, Peter Mann, Karl Pellens, Alex Schroer.

Writings

  • The Reformation, Kyrios 1947
  • The Reformation as a religious concern today, Paulinus 1948
  • History of the Church in the history of ideas consideration, imprimatur October 22, 1935, Aschendorff 14th edition 1948
  • The Reformation in Germany. Vol 2 expansion of the fronts, Union attempts result, Herder, 1949 ( 4th edition 1952)
  • The Reformation in Germany. Vol 1 conditions, Herder, 1949 ( 5th edition 1965)
  • History of the Church in the history of ideas consideration, Aschendorff, 15th and 16th Ed 1950
  • Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk and mystic, Steiner 1955
  • Europe and Christianity, Saverne, 1959, ISBN 3805320469, together with Walther von Loewenich, Fedor Stepun
  • History of the Church in the history of ideas consideration. Vol 1 ancient and medieval times, ash village 21 edition 1962
  • History of the Church in the history of ideas consideration. Vol 2 The modern era, Aschendorff 21, 1964 edition
  • Reformation in Germany, Darton, Longman & Todd in 1968 ISBN 0232483868
  • Small Reformation History, Herder 2nd edition 1971, together with Erwin Iserloh
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