COHAUSZ, OTTO. - German Jesuit, apologetic and ascetic writer, b. at Nordwalde (Westphalia) on 8 Sept. 1872, d. at Danzig on 3 June 1938. He had been engaged in commerce before entering the Society of Jesus in 1894. After his studies, he first devoted himself to popular missions; having withdrawn from these because of poor health, he remained occupied with preaching, chiefly giving the Spiritual Exercises and religious conferences, in Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, etc.
He wrote many magazine articles and popular booklets (for example, the series: Idole des XX. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1911; 2nd ed. ibid. 1920; 4th ed. ibid. 1921). Of his more important works only the following are mentioned: Das moderne Denken (ibid. 1910); Im Gefolge Jesu (Warendorf 1915, frequently reprinted and translated; they are meditations for Catholic schoolmistresses); Paulus. Ein Buch für Priester (ibid. 1918; 3rd ed. ibid. 1920); Jesus Christus, der König der Welt (Steyl 1926; 3rd ed. ibid. 1929); Die Frömmigkeit Jesu Christi (Baden 1929; 2nd ed. ibid. 1930); Maria in ihrer Unice und Wirklichkeit. Die zweite Eva (Limburg a. L. 1938). Interesting is the application he made of exegetical studies to the spiritual life in the series of meditations on Holy Scripture: Betrachtungen über die III. Schrift: I, Bilder aus der Urkirche (Leipzig 1921); II, Blätter aus dem Lebensbuche Sauls (ibid. 1921); III, Der erlöste Mensch. Eine Erklärung des Römerbriefes (ibid. 1923). He also wrote a popular commentary on the Apocalypse: Seherbliche auf Patmos (Aachen 1927) and on the Acts of the Apostles: Apostolgeschichte (Herders Bibelkommentar, XII, II, Freiburg im Br. 1936; 2nd ed. ibid. 1937).
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