„Für Gott, die Kirche und das Vaterland“

In the episcopal city of Hildesheim, the Jesuits, facing the Reformation, thoroughly reformed the medieval Cathedral School in 1595 by way of a Catholic-characterized Christian humanism. To this day, the library and archive holdings have been almost completely preserved. Based on these sources, the present study exemplifies the connection between spirituality and pedagogy, as was typical of the educational apostolate of the Jesuits until the abolition of the Order in 1773.
Christoph Bruns, Dr. theol., currently teaches Latin, religion, and history at Gymnasium Mariano-Josephinum in Hildesheim, was formerly a research assistant with the Theological Faculty of Freiburg i. Br., and is a lecturer for ancient church history and patrology at the University of Hanover.