Hubert Jedin

Hubert Jedin

Hubert Jedin (17 June 1900- 16 July 1980) was a Catholic Church historian from Germany, whose publications specialized on the History of ecumenical councils in general and the Council of Trent in particular, on which he published a 2400 page history, over the years 1951-1975 .

Early years

He was born in Silesia as one of ten children and studied theology in Breslau, Munich and Freiburg. [Konziliengeschichte 145] He was ordained in 1924. In 1927 he went to Rome where he completed a biography of Girolamo Seripando. He returned to Germany in 1930, to teach Church History at the Catholic faculty of the University of Breslau. [Konziliengeschichte 145] Because of his Jewish mother, he was defined half-Jewish by the National Socialists. They stripped him of all academic titles and prohibited him from working public institutions in Germany. Jedin returned to Rome and worked there for the Görres Society. [Konziliengeschichte 145] From 1936 until 1939, he worked for his diocesis in Breslau. He returned to Rome, after narrowly escaping a transport to the Concentration Camp Buchenwald. [Hubert Jedin in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon]

History of the Council of Trent

In Rome, he lived at the Campo Santo in the Vatican and was thus under the protection of Pope Pius XII especially during the German occupation. He worked on the history of the Council of Trent, which he published in the years 1951-1976. [Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon] . Jedin created the most comprehensive description of the Council in his "History of the Council of Trent" (Geschichte des Konzils von Trient with about 2400 pages in four volumes:
* "The History of the Council of Trent, The Fight for a Council" [ ( Vol I, 1951) Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau ]
* "The History of the Council of Trent The First Sessions in Trent" 1545-1547 ( [Vol II,1957 )]
* "The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547-1548 and Trent 1551-1552" [(Vol III 1970, 1998) Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau ]

* "The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion" [(Vol IV 1976 Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau ]

Vatican Two

After the war he was rehabilitated in Germany and accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn in 1948. Pope John XXIII nominated him to assist in the preparation of the Second Vatican Council in 1960. He continued to work for the council until it ended in 1965. [ Hubert Jedin in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon ]

Publications

His work includes over seven-hundred titles including forty books and 250 articles in Journals. Jedin issued numerous publications on the council of Trent, which, in his view, determined the relation of Catholics and Protestants for centuries. He addressed issues of controversy, trying to give interpretations of ecumenical perspectives at that time. In addition, he oversaw the seven volume publication of "Church History" (1963.1979) an "Atlas of Church History" (1979), and the fundamental "Lexikon Für Theologie und Kirche" (1957-1975 )(Encyclopedia for Theology and the Church). As a historian, he leaned on historicism as a method. As a theologian, he was an enlightened conservative, critical of some of the implementations of Vatican Two. [ Hubert Jedin in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon ]

About Hubert Jedin

* "Lebensbericht". Mit einem Dokumentenanhang, hrsg. Konrad Repgen (= Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Zeitgeschichte, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-7867-1086-4
* Heribert Smolinsky (Hrsg.): "Die Erforschung der Kirchengeschichte. Leben, Werk und Bedeutung von Hubert Jedin (1900-1980)" (= Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, Bd. 61), Aschendorff, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-02982-0

Literature

* Hubert Jedin, Kleine Konziliengeschichte, Herder Freiburg, 1960
* Hubert Jedin, in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon Band 3 (Jedin–Kleinschmidt), Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2

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