Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oswald von Nell-Breuning

German theologian

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1890

Place of Birth: Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1991

Profession: economist, theologian, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Oswald von Nell-Breuning SJ (8 March 1890 – 21 August 1991) was a Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist. Born in Trier, Germany into an aristocratic family, Nell-Breuning was ordained in 1921 and appointed Professor of Ethics at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in 1928.
He was instrumental in the drafting of Pope Pius XI's social encyclical Quadragesimo anno (1931), which – like the earlier Rerum novarum (1891), after which it was named – dealt with the "Social Question" and developed the principle of subsidiarity.
Nell-Breuning was not allowed to publish from 1936 to the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.
He died in Frankfurt am Main.