Johannes Mumbauer

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Johannes Mumbauer

Johannes Mumbauer (27 July 1867 – 22 December 1930) was a German Roman Catholic priest, theologian and literary critic.

Biography

Johannes Mumbauer was born in Kreuznach. After graduating from high school, Mumbauer entered the Episcopal Seminary of Trier. He was ordained a priest in 1891 by Bishop Michael Felix Korum. In the same year, he was appointed chaplain in Rübenach and from 1892 was also chaplain in Wadgassen. In 1895, Mumbauer received his first parish post in Ravengiersburg. From there he moved in 1898 to the parish in Ohlenberg where he worked until 1902. Another change led him to Konz (Hamm), where he worked until 1908.

In 1908, Mumbauer began working for the Kölnische Volkszeitung in Rome. He worked there until 1911, when he returned to Germany and became a pastor in Piesport. He moved one last time: in 1925 he took over the pastorate in Sinzig, which he held until his retirement in 1929.

Johannes Mumbauer died in Bad Kreuznach on December 22, 1930.

Writings

In addition to his ecclesiastical activities, Mumbauer was also active as an author and editor. He published in theological fields and also participated in the literary discourse of the late Empire and the Weimar Republic, formulating his writings primarily from a Roman Catholic, but also from a German nationalist point of view. He belonged to the circle around the journal Hochland, founded by Carl Muth.

After he was elected editor of the Akademische Bonifatius-Korrespondenz in 1907, Mumbauer helped to develop it into a Catholic cultural journal.[1] He strove to promote and enhance the Catholic position in German intellectual life and wished to see Catholic literature represented in the mainstream. Despite Nietzsche's fundamental criticism of Christianity, Mumbauer sees him and Julius Langbehn as "pioneers and innovators" and "spiritual forefathers of modernity." According to Mumbauer, Nietzsche, on the one hand, smashed a "cultural and literary epigonism that ... falsified, softened, sweetened the German essence" but, on the other hand, also warned the German people against "the delusion of chosenness" and "nationalistically narrowing exclusiveness."[2]

Mumbauer defended Catholicism against criticism from the George circle and explicitly from Friedrich Wolters.[3] Instead of fashionable trends and "helot consciousness" on the one hand and "ruler's caste conceit" on the other, he argues, "timeless" writers who strive to make the "pure forms of God ... shine in earthly forms" should serve as "beacons and signposts." He cited Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti and Wilhelm Schäfer as examples.

Works

  • Der Anteil der Frau am Kampfe gegen die öffentliche Unsittlichkeit (1906)
  • Trierisches Jahrbuch für ästhetische Kultur 1908 (1908; editor)
  • Maler Müller in Rom (1913)
  • Einer für alle – alle für einen! (1915)
  • Um unsere Ehre! (1915)
  • Allerhand Literatur-Schmerzen (1915)
  • Vaterland! Gedanken eines katholischen Deutschen über Volk, Staat, Rasse und Nation (1915)
  • Machiavellistische und antimachiavellistische Politik (1915)
  • Der deutsche Gedanke bei Ketteler (1916)
  • "Ein Katholik an die Protestanten," Deutscher Wille 31 (1917), pp. 100–04.
  • Warren Hastings, der Unterdrücker Indiens oder: Wie England "Kultur" bringt (1918)
  • "'Klassisch' und 'romantisch' im heutigen Katholizismus," Deutscher Wille 31 (1918), pp. 132–36.
  • "'Klassisch' und 'romantisch' im heutigen Katholizismus," Deutscher Wille 31 (1918), pp. 161–64.
  • Der Dichterinnen stiller Garten (1918)
  • Die "Kulturmission" der Kirche (1922)
  • Aus dem Liliengarten der hl. Katharina von Siena (1923)
  • Wilhelm Emmanuel von Kettelers Schriften (1924; 3 volumes; editor)
  • Die Legende von Lazarus, Martha und Magdalena (1928)
  • Die deutsche Dichtung der neuesten Zeit (1931)[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Fuchs, Stephan (2004). Vom Segen des Krieges. Katholische Gebildete im Ersten Weltkrieg. Eine Studie zur Kriegsdeutung im akademischen Katholizismus. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner.
  2. ↑ Krummel, Richard (1998). Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist, Bd. III, Ausbreitung und Wirkung des Nietzscheschen Werkes im deutschen Sprachraum bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges: ein Schrifttumsverzeichnis der Jahre 1919–1945. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  3. ↑ Aurnhammer, Achim; Wolfgang Braungart, Stefan Breuer, Ute Oelmann, eds. (2016). Stefan George und sein Kreis: Ein Handbuch. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  4. ↑ Posthumously published first part of the planned work Die deutsche Dichtung der neuesten Zeit in zwei Bänden, completed by Otto Miller in 1933.

References

  • Binz, Arthur Friedrich, ed. (1927). Festschrift für Johannes Mumbauer zum 60. Geburtstag 27. Juli 1927. Hausen: Saarlouis.
  • Kre­mer, Pe­ter (1983). "Jo­han­nes Mum­bau­er. 27. Ju­li 1867, 22. De­zem­ber 1930." In: Jahr­buch für den Kreis Bern­kas­tel-Witt­lich. Monschau: Weiss-Druck, pp. 329–38.
  • La­ros, Mat­thi­as (1959). "Jo­han­nes Mum­bau­er," Der Volks­freund. Hei­mat­ka­len­der des Trie­rer Lan­des 7, pp. 36–41.
  • Ma­thern, Wil­ly (1952). "Jo­han­nes Mum­bau­er." In: Ma­thern, Wil­ly, Män­ner des Huns­rück- und Na­he­lan­des. Kurz­ge­fass­te Be­rich­te über de­ren Le­ben und Le­bens­werk. Trier, pp. 134–37.

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