University of Freiburg Faculty of Theology

The Theological Faculty of the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg was founded in the founding of the University in the year 1457th

History

Taught at the end of 15th and beginning of the 16th century, and searched here, the reformer and later Strasbourg cathedral preacher Geiler von Kaysersberg, Alsace the Franciscans and poet Thomas Murner and the opponent of the Reformation John Eck. From 1529 investigated here during his stay in Freiburg and Erasmus of Rotterdam, which has, however, held no lectures. During the Reformation, it remained Catholic since she was a front Austrian university.

1586 changed the course of the Council of Trent, the division of theological subjects in four areas, namely exegesis, dogmatic theology, moral and controversial theology.

In 1620 there was another incision, as the Jesuits arrived in Freiburg and the most chairs occupied; this remained so until the abolition of the Order in 1773. Among the Empress Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II, the orientation after the departure of the regular clergy changed in the direction of exegetical historical subjects. There were also church history, pastoral theology and biblical languages ​​.

As of 1805, with the founding of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the front Austrian Breisgau Freiburg and thus fell with his university to foundation. This led to a financial uncertainty that threatened the whole university, but also to an extension of the teaching staff, as three professors of Heidelberg were moved to Freiburg. With the establishment of the Archdiocese of Freiburg in 1827 this faculty was also the academic training ground for the priests of the diocese.

In 1868, the training was relocated in canon law from the legal to the theological faculty and furnished in 1870 for a separate chair.

The Institute of Christian Archaeology and Art History expanded its range of teaching in 1916. He was the only one in Germany, this was followed in 1925 which also unique Caritas Institute of Science.

In the Third Reich many professors were forced to retire or deprived them of the right to teach. In 1939 the faculty was closed, but was preserved.

Due to the progress of scientific research and the associated differentiation came after 1945, the chairs of Religious History, Christian philosophy of religion and Christian social doctrine. This was followed in 1957, the Ramon Llull Institute - source study of the theology of the Middle Ages and 1995, the working unit for piety and ecclesiastical history of the country's history as the successor of the Institute for Religious folklore.

Significant for the theological orientation of the Department of Religion Philosophy of the Faculty was Bernhard Welte, the integrated phenomenology in the philosophy of religion.

By exegetes Alfons Deissler and Anton Vogtle was the Theological Faculty of Fribourg in the second half of the 20th century in Germany as one of the leading centers of the renewal of biblical studies and the establishment of the historical- critical method in Catholic theology.

Structure

The faculty is organized today in the following institutes:

  • Institute for Biblical and Historical Theology
  • Institute of Systematic Theology
  • Institute of Practical Theology

Famous people

  • Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg ( * 1445, † 1510)
  • Thomas Murner (* 1475, † 1537 )
  • John Eck ( * 1486, † 1543)
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam (* 1465 [ or 1469 ], 1536), 1529
  • Engelbert Klüpfel (* 1733, † 1811): dogmatists ( 1767-1805 )
  • Johann Leonhard Hug ( * 1765, † 1846): Catholic exegesis ( 1793 - )
  • Ferdinand Geminian Wanker (* 1758, † 1824): Moral Theologian
  • Johann Baptist von Hirscher (* 1788, † 1865): Moral theologian and scholar of religion ( 1837-1863 )
  • Franz Anton Staudenmaier (* 1800, † 1856): dogmatists ( 1837-1855 )
  • Franz Xaver Kraus ( * 1840, † 1901): Christian Archaeology and Art History, Institute Stifter ( 1878-1901 )
  • Joseph Sauer ( * 1872, † 1949): Christian Archaeology and History of Art ( 1916-1948 )
  • Alfred Wikenhauser (* 1883, † 1960): exegesis of the New Testament ( 1929-1951 )
  • Bernhard Welte (* 1906, † 1983): Phenomenology ( 1952-1973 )
  • Anton Vogtle (* 1910, † 1996): New Testament Literature and Exegesis ( 1951-1978 )
  • Alfons Deissler (* 1914, † 2005): Old Testament Literature and Exegesis ( 1951-1982 )
  • Klaus Hemmerle (* 1924, † 1994): Philosophy of Religion ( 1973-1975 ); Bishop of Aachen
  • Cardinal Karl Lehmann ( * 1936): Dogmatic and Ecumenical Theology ( 1971-1983 ); Bishop of Mainz
  • Albert Thomas Dölken O.Praem. (* 1960), abbot of Hamborn
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