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== Life ==
== Life ==
Joseph Lortz, the second youngest of seven children, studied [[philosophy]] and [[theology]] in Rome from 1907 to 1911 and at the [[University of Fribourg]] from 1911 to 1913. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1913 at the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg]]. From 1913 to 1923 he lived in [[Bonn]], where the church and Reformation historians Heinrich Schrörs, Joseph Greving and Albert Ehrhard influenced his further intellectual development.<ref>{{BBKL|l/lortz|autor=Gabriele Lautenschläger|artikel=Lortz, Joseph Adam|band=5|spalten=241–244}}</ref> In 1917 he became the scholarly secretary of the editorial board [[Corpus Catholicorum]] series.
Joseph Lortz was the second youngest of seven children. Having graduated from the Gymnasium of the Benedictine abbey of [[Echternach]], he studied [[philosophy]] and [[theology]] at the [[Gregorian University]] in Rome from 1907 to 1910,<ref> Krieg, p.56 </ref> and at the [[University of Fribourg]] from 1911 to 1913. Here he was influenced by the [[Dominican]] professor and [[patristics]] scholar Johann Peter Kirsch who advised him to study the patristic apologist [[Tertullian]], and the church historian [[Pierre Mandonnet]]. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1913 at the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg]]. From 1913 to 1923 he lived in [[Bonn]], where the church and Reformation historians Heinrich Schrörs, Joseph Greving and Albert Ehrhard influenced his further intellectual development.<ref>{{BBKL|l/lortz|autor=Gabriele Lautenschläger|artikel=Lortz, Joseph Adam|band=5|spalten=241–244}}</ref> In 1917 he became the scholarly secretary of the editorial board [[Corpus Catholicorum]] series.


He completed his doctorate at the [[University of Bonn]] in 1920 and wrote his [[Habilitation]] ''Schrift'' at the [[University of Würzburg]] in 1923. He then worked as a [[Privatdozent]] under [[Sebastian Merkle]], simultaneously serving as a chaplain in [[Würzburg]]. In 1929 he received a post as a professor at the [[Collegium Hosianum]] in [[East Prussia]]. After the [[Machtergreifung|Nazi seizure of power]] in 1933, he published a treatise on the “Catholic Accommodation with National Socialism" (''Katholischer Zugang zum Nationalsozialismus'').<ref name="Klee381">[[Ernst Klee]]: ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8, S. 381.</ref> In 1935 he moved to the chair of general church history with special emphasis on the history of [[missiology|missions]] at the [[University of Münster]]. Lortz, who had been a member of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi party]], left the party in 1938.<ref name="Klee381"/>
He completed his doctorate at the [[University of Bonn]] in 1920 and wrote his [[Habilitation]] ''Schrift'' at the [[University of Würzburg]] in 1923. He then worked as a [[Privatdozent]] under [[Sebastian Merkle]], simultaneously serving as a chaplain in [[Würzburg]]. In 1929 he received a post as a professor at the [[Collegium Hosianum]] in [[East Prussia]]. After the [[Machtergreifung|Nazi seizure of power]] in 1933, he published a treatise on the “Catholic Accommodation with National Socialism" (''Katholischer Zugang zum Nationalsozialismus'').<ref name="Klee381">[[Ernst Klee]]: ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8, S. 381.</ref> In 1935 he moved to the chair of general church history with special emphasis on the history of [[missiology|missions]] at the [[University of Münster]]. Lortz, who had been a member of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi party]], left the party in 1938.<ref name="Klee381"/>

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Joseph (Adam) Lortz ( December 13, 1887 in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg – February 21, 1975 in Luxembourg (city)) was a Roman Catholic Church Historian. He was a highly regarded Reformation historian and ecumenist. Beginning in the 1940s, Lortz made his ecumenical views available to general readers as well as to scholars in order to promote reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. His writings played a role in the thinking that manifested itself in the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio (November 21 1964). What was not widely known, however, was Lortz's involvement with Nazism from 1933 until 1937. [1]

Life

Joseph Lortz was the second youngest of seven children. Having graduated from the Gymnasium of the Benedictine abbey of Echternach, he studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1907 to 1910,[2] and at the University of Fribourg from 1911 to 1913. Here he was influenced by the Dominican professor and patristics scholar Johann Peter Kirsch who advised him to study the patristic apologist Tertullian, and the church historian Pierre Mandonnet. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1913 at the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg. From 1913 to 1923 he lived in Bonn, where the church and Reformation historians Heinrich Schrörs, Joseph Greving and Albert Ehrhard influenced his further intellectual development.[3] In 1917 he became the scholarly secretary of the editorial board Corpus Catholicorum series.

He completed his doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1920 and wrote his Habilitation Schrift at the University of Würzburg in 1923. He then worked as a Privatdozent under Sebastian Merkle, simultaneously serving as a chaplain in Würzburg. In 1929 he received a post as a professor at the Collegium Hosianum in East Prussia. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, he published a treatise on the “Catholic Accommodation with National Socialism" (Katholischer Zugang zum Nationalsozialismus).[4] In 1935 he moved to the chair of general church history with special emphasis on the history of missions at the University of Münster. Lortz, who had been a member of the Nazi party, left the party in 1938.[4]

After the war he taught at the University of Mainz from 1950 until his death in 1975. He was also director of the Institute of European History in Mainz in the department of Western religious history.

He was a member of the Catholic fraternity K.D.St.V. Teutonia in Freiburg/Üechtland of the CV.

Many of Lortz’s works engaged the issue of the relation between the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation. His best known work remains The Reformation in Germany.

Among Lortz's better known students are Karl Pellens, Armin Lindauer, Alex Schröer.

Works

  • Die Reformation. Kyrios, 1947
  • Die Reformation als religiöses Anliegen heute. Paulinus, 1948
  • Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung. Imprimatur October 22, 1935, 14th ed. Aschendorff 1948
  • Die Reformation in Deutschland. Bd. 2. Ausbau der Fronten, Unionsversuche, Ergebnis. Herder, 1949 (4th ed. 1952)
  • Die Reformation in Deutschland. Bd. 1. Voraussetzungen. Herder, 1949 (5th ed. 1965)
  • Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung. 15 & 16th eds. Aschendorff, 1950
  • Bernhard von Clairvaux, Mönch und Mystiker. Steiner, 1955
  • (with Walther von Loewenich and Fedor Stepun Europa und das Christentum. Zabern 1959. ISBN 3805320469,
  • Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung. Bd. 1. Altertum und Mittelalter. 21st ed. Aschendorff, 1962
  • Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung. Bd. 2. Die Neuzeit. 21st ed. Aschendorff, 1964
  • The Reformation in Germany. 2 vols. New York, Herder and Herder, 1968. ISBN 0232483868
  • (with Erwin Iserloh) Kleine Reformationsgeschichte. 2nd ed. Herder, 1971

Further reading

  • Wilhelm Baum (1987), "Lortz, Joseph", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 15, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 188–188
  • Gabriele Lautenschläger (1993). "Lortz, Joseph Adam". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 5. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 241–244. ISBN 3-88309-043-3.
  • Erwin Iserloh and Peter Manns, eds. Festgabe Joseph Lortz. 2. Glaube und Geschichte, Grimm 1958.
  • Erwin Iserloh, Joseph Lortz (1887–1975). Historisches Jahrbuch 94 (1974), pp. 505–507.
  • Gabriele Lautenschläger, Joseph Lortz (1887-1975): Weg, Umwelt und Werk eines katholischen Kirchenhistorikers, 1987, ISBN 3429011191
  • Rolf Decot and Rainer Vinke, Zum Gedenken an Joseph Lortz (1887-1975), Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05159-7.

External links

Notes

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  1. ^ Robert Krieg, Catholic theologians in Nazi Germany, p. 56
  2. ^ Krieg, p.56
  3. ^ Gabriele Lautenschläger (1993). "Lortz, Joseph Adam". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 5. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 241–244. ISBN 3-88309-043-3.
  4. ^ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8, S. 381.

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