Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini studied at University of Tübingen, University of Bonn and University of Freiburg. The recorded working language is German and Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich and Tübingen. Employment is recorded with University of Tübingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Order of Merit, Munich "München leuchtet" award, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Erasmus Prize.

• Type — priest • Honorific Prefix — Servant of God • Name — Romano Guardini • Born — 17 February 1885 • Died — 1 October 1968 • Birthplace — Verona, Kingdom of Italy • Place of death — Munich, West Germany • Ordination — 28 May 1910 (Priest) • Ordained By — Georg Heinrich Kirstein • Birth Name — Romano Michele Antonio Maria Guardini • Education — University of Tübingen University of Freiburg

Romano Michele Antonio Maria Guardini was born in Verona in 1885 and was baptized in the Church of San Nicolò all'Arena. His father, Romano Tullo (1857–1919), was a poultry wholesaler. Guardini had three younger brothers. The family moved to Mainz when he was one year old and he lived in Germany for the rest of his life. He attended the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium. Guardini wrote that as a young man he was “always anxious and very scrupulous.” Fluent in Italian and German, he also studied Latin, Greek, French, and English. After studying chemistry at the University of Tübingen for two semesters, and economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin for three semesters, he decided to become a priest. He studied theology at the University of Freiburg and the University of Tübingen. Impressed by the monastic spirituality of the monks of Beuron Archabbey, he became a Benedictine oblate, taking the name Odilio. Guardini was ordained a diocesan priest in Mainz by Georg Heinrich Kirstein in 1910. • Illustration — St. Peter's Church in Mainz He became a German citizen in 1911 so that he could teach theology in Germany, a job paid by the government. He briefly worked in a pastoral position at St. Christoph's Church in Mainz before returning to Freiburg to work on his doctorate in Theology under Engelbert Krebs. He received his doctorate in 1915 for a dissertation on Bonaventure. He completed his "Habilitation" in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Bonn in 1922, again with a dissertation on Bonaventure. Throughout this period he also worked as a parish priest at St. Ignatius, St. Emmeran's, and St. Peter's and served as chaplain to the Catholic youth movement. During World War I he served as a hospital orderly. In 1923, he was appointed to a chair in Philosophy of Religion at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. In the 1935 essay "Der Heiland" (The Saviour), he criticized Nazi mythologizing of the person of Jesus and emphasized the Jewishness of Jesus. The Nazis forced him to resign from his Berlin position in 1939. From 1943 to 1945 he retired to Mooshausen, where his friend Josef Weiger had been a parish priest since 1917. In 1945, Guardini was appointed professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and resumed lecturing on the Philosophy of Religion. In 1948, he became professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he remained until retiring for health reasons in 1962. That same year, he received the Erasmus Prize, an annual prize awarded by the board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation to individuals or institutions that have made exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe. Pope Paul VI offered to make Guardini a cardinal in 1965, but he declined. Guardini died in Munich on 1 October 1968. He was buried in the priests’ cemetery of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in the city. His estate was left to the Catholic Academy in Bavaria that he had co-founded.

In December 2017, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising opened the beatification process for Guardini, thus designating him a Servant of God.

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Romano Guardini is recorded with the occupation philosopher of religion. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation Catholic priest. Recorded as having received Bavarian Order of Merit, Munich "München leuchtet" award and Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.