History of the Church, tom I-X

History of the Church, tom I-X - Hubert Jedin

Hubert Jedin (17 June 1900, Groß Briesen, Friedewalde, Silesia – 16 July 1980, Bonn) 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.

He was born in Upper Silesia as one of ten children and studied theology in Breslau, Munich and Freiburg. 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. 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 in public institutions in Germany. Jedin returned to Rome and worked there for the Görres Society. From 1936 until 1939, he worked for his diocese in Breslau. He returned to Rome after narrowly escaping deportation to the Concentration Camp at Buchenwald.

X-  1981r.; 867s./  IX- 653s./  VIII- 402s./  VII- 426s./  VI- 678s./ 

V- 1980r.; 795s./  IV- 776s./  III- 573s./  II- 846s./  I- 522s.