Friedrich Lauchert

Friedrich Lauchert (1 September 1863 – 18 April 1944) was a German church historian.

Biography

Friedrich Lauchert was born at Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg. Lauchert, who was raised in the Old Catholic sense, studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the universities of Munich, Strasbourg and Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in 1886 in Munich for his dissertation Herders griechische und morgenländische Anthologie und seine Übersetzungen aus Jakob Balde im Verhältnis zu den Originalen betrachtet. From 1888 to 1890 and again from 1893 to 1895, Lauchert was a research assistant at the University and State Library in Strasbourg, where he also took the philological state examination in 1889. Two years later he earned the degree of theology at the University of Bern and was subsequently taken on there as a private lecturer in patrology and Christian literary history until 1893. From 1895 to 1899, Lauchert served as professor in the Old Catholic faculty of the University of Bonn, but then resigned his professorship and returned to the Roman Catholic Church. After working as a private scholar in Munich for three years, Lauchert obtained a position at the Aachen City Library in 1901, where he was appointed city librarian in 1914. He held this post until his retirement in 1928.

In addition to his research focus in the field of patrology and the history of theology of the 16th and 19th centuries, he was primarily concerned with Martin Luther's literary opponents (such as Thomas Murner). His 1912 publication Die italienischen literarischen Gegner Luthers ("The Italian Literary Opponents of Luther") is still valid today.

Lauchert wrote more than 180 articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. He died in Siersdorf, Aldenhoven

Works

• Geschichte des Physiologus (1889)
• G. Chr. Lichtenberg’s schriftstellerische Thätigkeit in chronologischer Uebersicht dargestellt (1892)
• Die Lehre des heiligen Athanasius des Grossen (1895)
• "Studien zu Thomas Murner". In: Alemannia. 18 (1890), pp. 139–72, pp. 283–88; Alemannia. 19 (1892), pp. 1–18.
• Franz Anton Staudenmaier (1800–1856) in seinem Leben und Wirken dargestellt (1901)
• Die italienischen literarischen Gegner Luthers (1912)
• Die Kanones der wichtigsten altkirchlichen Concilien nebst den apostolischen Kanones (1896)

References

• Remigius Bäumer, "Lauchert, Friedrich". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 13. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (1982), p. 698