Josef Andreas Jungmann
| Josef Andreas Jungmann | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 16, 1889 Sand in Taufers, Südtirol |
| Died | January 26, 1975 (aged 85) Innsbruck, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Jesuit priest, professor of liturgy and catechetics |
| Years active | 1913-1975 |
| Known for | Contribution to Sacrosanctum Concilium of Vatican II |
| Notable work | The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development |
Josef Andreas Jungmann (16 November 1889, Sand in Taufers, Südtirol – 26 January 1975, Innsbruck, Austria) was a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and prominent liturgist. He is best known for his 2-volume history Mass of the Roman Rite, which helped inform the changes in the Catholic Mass at the Second Vatican Council of Bishops. He is also noted for his contribution to the post-Vatican II catechetical movement in the Catholic Church.
Jungmann studied in Brixen, Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1913. After several years of pastoral service as vicar in the parishes of Niedervintl (1913-1915) and Gossensass (1915-1917) he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus on 23 September 1917 in St. Andrä in Carinthia, Austria. In 1918 he took up studies at the Jesuit theologate of Innsbruck, earning the degree Doctor of Theology in 1923. From 1923 to 1925 he taught in Munich and Vienna. It was from his pastoral ministry that "he came to feel a huge gap between the joyful message of the Gospel and the 'legalistic' approach to the faith of the parishioners, that it was rather a burden."
From 1925 he gave lectures on pedagogy, catechetics, and liturgy at the University of Innsbruck. There he became an extraordinary professor in 1930, a full professor in 1934, and an honorary professor for pastoral theology from 1956. On 9 November 1972 he was awarded the honorary doctorate of the University of Salzburg.
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