Joseph Lortz
Joseph (Adam) Lortz (13 December 1887 in
Life
Joseph Lortz was the second youngest of seven children. Having graduated from the
Lortz completed his doctorate at the
After the war he underwent a process of de-nazification, and was allowed to return to teaching. But he lost his position at the University of Munster after the post was returned to Georg Schreiber whom Lortz had replaced by the order of the Nazi authorities.
He was a member of the Catholic fraternity
Many of Lortz's works engaged the issue of the relation between the
Among Lortz's better known students are Manns, Erwin Iserloh , Karl Pellens, Armin Lindauer, and Alex Schröer.
Works
- Katholischer Zugang zum Nationalsozialismus, kirchengeschichtlich gesehen. 1933, 2nd, 3rd ed. 1934
- Die Reformation. Kyrios, 1947
- The Reformation. A Problem For Today. The Newman Press, 1964
- Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung. 1935. (15th and 16th eds. Aschendorff, 1950)
- Die Reformation in Deutschland
- Volume 1. Voraussetzungen. Herder, 1949 (5th ed. 1965)
- Volume 2. Ausbau der Fronten, Unionsversuche, Ergebnis. Herder, 1949 (4th ed. 1952)
- Bernhard von Clairvaux, Mönch und Mystiker. Steiner, 1955
- (with Walther von Loewenich and ISBN 3-8053-2046-9
- Geschichte der Kirche in ideengeschichtlicher Betrachtung
- Volume 1. Altertum und Mittelalter. 21st ed. Aschendorff, 1962
- Volume 2. Die Neuzeit. 21st ed. Aschendorff, 1964
- The Reformation in Germany. 2 vols. New York, Herder and Herder, 1968. ISBN 0-232-48386-8
- (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 3-429-01119-1
- Rolf Decot and Rainer Vinke, Zum Gedenken an Joseph Lortz (1887-1975). Stuttgart, 1989, ISBN 3-515-05159-7.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9780826415769, p. 56.
- ^ Gabriele Lautenschläger. "Joseph Lortz". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).
- ^ Krieg, p. 57.
- ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8, p. 381.
- ^ Krieg, pp. 77-78.
- ^ Krieg, p. 78.
- ^ Manns, Peter (1987). "Einleitung". In Manns, Peter (ed.). Joseph Lortz: Erneuerung und Einheit; Aufsätze zur Theologie und Kirchengeschichte, aus Anlass seines 100. Geburtstages. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. pp. vii–ix.
External links
- Literature by and about Joseph Lortz in the German National Library catalogue