Franz Joseph Dölger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Franz Joseph Dölger

German theologian

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1879

Place of Birth: Sulzbach am Main, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1940

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian, university teacher, church historian, archaeologist, cultural historian, historian of religion

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Franz Joseph Dölger

  • Franz Joseph Dölger (18 October 1879, in Sulzbach am Main – 17 October 1940, in Schweinfurt) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian. He studied theology at the University of Würzburg, being ordained into the priesthood in 1902.
  • Afterwards he worked as a chaplain in Amorbach and Würzburg, and in June 1904, obtained his doctorate in theology.In the winter and spring of 1904–05, he participated in a study group to Rome, Sicily and North Africa.
  • Later on, he furthered his education at the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome (1908–11), followed by an appointment as associate professor of religious history at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (1911).
  • Later in his career, he served as a professor at the universities of Breslau (1926–29; as successor to Joseph Wittig) and Bonn (1929–40).Dölger's primary focus involved investigations of the early Christian church and its relationship with non-Christian societies.
  • He also published scholarly works on the sacrament of confirmation, on exorcism, on baptism, and on the Eucharist in ancient Christianity.
  • In 1929 he founded the journal Antike und Christentum ("Antiquity and Christianity"), of which he contributed a series of detailed studies of the early church.Today, the Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut zur Erforschung der Spätantike (Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for Exploration of the Late Antiquity; founded 1955) at the University of Bonn is named in his honor.

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