4441 x 6873 px | 37,6 x 58,2 cm | 14,8 x 22,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
21 août 2022
Lieu:
Mainz cathedral, Germany
Informations supplémentaires:
WILHELM EMMANUEL FREIHERR VON KETTELER, (1811-1877) made his national debut in 1848, and in the following decades became the leading Catholic social thinker in Germany. In January 1849, with the failure to establish a greater Germany under Austrian leadership, the Catholic Club dissolved and Ketteler left Frankfurt to become provost in Berlin. He was later elected Bishop of Mainz, due to the direct interference of the Roman Curia. As bishop, he began his career as a prominent figure in political Catholicism, in the course of which he became the most important German Catholic social reformer of the nineteenth century. After the onset of workers' agitation led by Ferdinand Lassalle, Ketteler again took up the social question and in 1864 published his programmatic study The Workers' Question and Christianity. From then on he displayed greater socio-political versatility in discussions with liberals and socialist workers, es pousing workers' rights and legislation to protect the trade union movement. Ketteler's social thought had a profound impact on Pope Leo XIII and his encyclical Rerum novarum which laid the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching.
