Franz Joseph Dölger

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Franz Joseph Dölger (October 18, 1879 – October 17, 1940) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian born in Sulzbach am Main.

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. Subsequently, he became associated with the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome, followed by an appointment as associate professor of religious history at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (1912). Later in his career, he served as a professor at the Universities of Breslau (1927–1929) and Bonn (1929–1940).

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-Institute at the University of Bonn is named in his honor.

Selected publications

Das Sakrament der Firmung (The sacrament of confirmation), 1906.
Der Exorzismus im altchristlichen Taufritual (Exorcism in ancient Christian baptism rites), 1909.
ICHTHYS; Das Fischsymbol in frühchristlicher (ICHTHYS: The fish symbol in early Christianity), 1910.
Konstantin der Große und seine Zeit (Constantine the Great and his era), 1913
Sol Salutis. Gebet und Gesang im christlichen Altertum (Sol Salutis: prayer and song in Christian antiquity), 1920.
Die Fischdenkmäler in der frühchristlichen Plastik, Malerei und Kleinkunst, 1927.

References

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Dölger, Franz Joseph". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 1. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 1343–1344. ISBN 3-88309-013-1. English translation
http://www.fjdoelger.es Spanish site dedicated exclusively to F. J. Dölger (1879-1940), lucid German researcher of the relationship between Christianity and pagan antiquity.

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