Joseph Wittig

Joseph Wittig (. Born 22 January 1879 in Neusorge b Schlegel, County neurodegeneration / Silesia, † August 22, 1949 Goehrde / Lower Saxony ) was a German theologian, writer and local historian of the County of Glatz.

Childhood and origins

Joseph Wittig attended elementary school in Schlegel and was prepared December 1892 to March 1893 by the then flail Kaplan Henry May for the entrance examination in the lower third of the St. Matthias High School in Breslau, which he attended from April 1893 until graduation in 1899. His parents were the carpenter Edward Wittig and Johanna, born string field.

Study and academic career

Joseph Wittig studied at the University of Breslau Catholic theology and a doctorate in 1903 as a doctor of theology. In the same year he was ordained in the Wrocław Cross Church by Bishop George Cardinal Kopp a priest and was then chaplain in Lauban.

From 1904-1905 he spent with the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome to deepen his studies of Christian Archaeology. Here he met the same age Franz Joseph Dölger, with whom he undertook a short study trip to North Africa. After his return to Germany he was the first chaplain in Patschkau, then in Wroclaw at St. Mary on the Sand. In 1909 he was habilitated by the faculty of the University of Breslau Catholic Theology for the Church History. He then became a lecturer representation of his diseased teacher Max Sdralek. During this time he was also vice - or Präses of the journeyman association.

In 1911 he was appointed extraordinary professor of Ancient Church History and Christian Archeology, 1915 as full professor of church history, patristics and church art at the Theological Faculty of the University of Breslau, where he held the office of dean in the academic year 1917/1918.

Thrown off course

With the essay the ransomed, who appeared in the cultural magazine Highlands in 1922, the trouble began with the official Church. In the article, Wittig turned to theology, whose testimony to salvation was often difficult to understand, compared to in the narrative form supported by everyday experience fears and desires of ordinary Christian salvation. He reached for example the Catholic Beichtordnung and demanded " more happiness, more joy of God ." In the same year gave birth to him of the Breslau Archbishop and Cardinal Bertram of the management of the Marian Congregation, and it was suggested to him to give up the office of the university preacher. 1925, several of his scientific writings, in which he had fought for reforms in the Catholic Church, put on the Index of Forbidden Books. The clashes had with the official church, the leave of absence at the University and finally in 1926 the excommunication result.

More life

Joseph Wittig returned disappointed to his home village Neusorge and lived there as a private scholar and writer. In 1927 he married Bianca Geisler, daughter of the mayor of Habelschwerdt, and started a family.

In addition to editing theological subjects he wrote many popular stories and worked for magazines and broadcasters. Together with the Jewish religious philosopher Martin Buber and Viktor von Weizsäcker, he published the magazine The creature. He wrote the extensive chronicle of Schlegel and neurodegeneration. The city neurodegeneration made ​​him an honorary citizen.

1946, the excommunication was lifted. Shortly thereafter, were expelled from his beloved homeland. On August 22, 1949 Joseph Wittig died in Goehrde. His final resting place he found in Meschede / Westphalia. In his former home in Neusorge that as a result of the Second World War came to Poland in 1945, now houses a museum.

Works

  • Pope Damasus I. Source Critical Studies on its history and characteristics. Rome: Herder / Spithöver 1902 ( Roman quarterly magazine for Christian Archaeology and Church History, Supplement No. 14 )
  • The early Christian sculptures in the museum of the German National Foundation on the Campo Santo in Rome. Rome: Typographia Polyglotta 1906
  • Filastrius, Gaudentius and Ambrosiaster. Wroclaw: Core wood 1909
  • The peace policy of Pope Damasus I and the output of the Arian disputes. Wroclaw: Core wood 1912
  • For anniversary celebrations. Supplement to Silesian People's Daily # 484 from October 20, 1912
  • The Papacy. His world-historical development and meaning in words and pictures. Hamburg: Hansa undated (1913 )
  • Vincent de Paul. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1920
  • An Apostle of Charity. The Breslau canon Spiske Robert and his work. For the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Venerable. Hedwig the hundred - year celebration of the birthday of its founder and spiritual father. Wroclaw: Publisher of the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Hedwig / C. King 1921
  • Gerhard noise floor plan patrology with special reference to the teaching content of the fathers writings. 6th and 7th edition re-edited by Joseph Wittig. Freiburg: Herder, 1921 ( 8th and 9th Edition: The plan of the Patristic writings of the Church Fathers and their doctrinal content Ibid 1926.. . )
  • Of St. St. Basil the Great. Spiritual exercises on the Episcopal Conference of Dazimon 374/5 in connection with Isaiah 1-16. Wroclaw: Core wood 1922
  • Lord God of knowledge and wayside road. Freiburg: Herder, 1922
  • Rebirth. Habelschwerdt: Franke, 2nd edition 1923
  • My " redeemed " in repentance, struggle and resistance. Habelschwerdt: Franke bookstore F. Wolf 1923
  • The church in the woods and other stories from the angle of faith and the kingdom of God. Kempten: Kösel & Pustet 1924
  • Rock crystal. Illustrated by Hans Franke. Habelschwerdt: Franke 1924
  • Life of Jesus in Palestine, Silesia and elsewhere. 2 vols. Munich: Kösel & Pustet 1925
  • Osterbrunnen. Elberfeld: mountain -Verlag 1926
  • From the beautiful county. 44 pictures of George Marx with sketches of Joseph Wittig. Habelschwerdt: Franke 1926 (2nd edition: 50 images ..., ibid 1929)
  • Together with Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy: The age of the Church. 3 vols Berlin: Schneider 1927/1928
  • The unbeliever and other stories from the kingdom of God and the world. Heilbronn: Salzer 1928
  • Listen to God. Gotha: Klotz 1929
  • Prospects and paths. Gotha: Klotz 1930
  • Tröst my mind. Heilbronn: Salzer 1930
  • Michael God Schlichs hike. Heilbronn: Salzer 1931
  • The fate of Wenceslas Böhm. A God story. Heilbronn: Salzer 1931
  • Comforted, comforted, we are saved! Heilbronn: Salzer 1932
  • The lost Lord's Prayer. Heilbronn: Salzer 1933
  • Chronicle of the city neurodegeneration. Neurodegeneration: City neurode 1937
  • Of Waiting and coming. Advent letters. Stuttgart: Klotz 1938
  • Popular belief and folk custom in the county of Glatz. Neurodegeneration: Klambt 1939
  • The new face. Kempen Thomas 1947
  • November light. Kempen Thomas 1948
  • Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Cologne: three- kings -Verlag 1948
  • Carbuncle. Secular conversations and sketches for the holy Christmas time. Münster: Regenberg 1948
  • From Joseph Wittig's lost homeland, the beautiful county of Glatz. Cologne: Pick 1948
  • Novel with God. Diaries of contestation. Stuttgart: Klotz 1950
  • Of Waiting and coming. Advent letters. Stuttgart: Klotz 1951.
  • Chronicle of the community Schlegel, Vol I and II, published by: home community Schlegel eV Hattingen / Neuss: Self-published in 1983
  • Power in weakness. Letters to Friends, ed. by Gerhard Pachnicke. Moers: Brendow 1993
  • The Birth of Christ on the road to Landeck: stories, poems and thoughts from d estate, Marx Verlag, glues / Heidelberg, 1981
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