1. Aloys Grillmeier was a German Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal-deacon of the Catholic Church.
14 Facts About Aloys Grillmeier
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Aloys Grillmeier was born in Pechbrunn in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1910 to Joseph Grillmeier and Maria Weidner.
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Aloys Grillmeier entered the Jesuit Order in April 1929 after completing grammar school in Regensburg.
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Aloys Grillmeier studied philosophy in Munich and theology in Valkenburg in the Netherlands.
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Aloys Grillmeier was ordained priest on 24 June 1937 in the middle of further theological studies in Frankfurt am Main.
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Two days after the graduation ceremony Grillmeier was conscripted into the German army and trained as a medical orderly in Ulm.
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Aloys Grillmeier was then sent to the Eastern Front where he treated the casualties of the bitter fighting against Soviet forces.
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Aloys Grillmeier was released from further military service in April 1944 as a member of the Jesuits.
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Aloys Grillmeier then began a long teaching career in fundamental and dogmatic theology, most of which was spent as Professor of Dogmatics at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, where the German Jesuits received their theological education.
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Aloys Grillmeier became known at the Second Vatican Council, where he acted as theological adviser to Bishop Wilhelm Kempf of Limburg.
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Aloys Grillmeier had a particular input into the drafting of the document Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.
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Aloys Grillmeier retired in 1978 on his 68th birthday, but continued to write and lecture.
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Aloys Grillmeier died on 13 September 1998 in Unterhaching, Bavaria, Germany.
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Aloys Grillmeier published expanded versions of the second volume in the 1990s in collaboration with Theresia Hainthaler.