Life
Formation
On the completion of his classical studies he matriculated at Münster in Westphalia to studyEditor of 'Stimmen aux Maria-Laach'
When the Jesuits founded the periodical ''Stimmen aus Maria-Laach'', Father Cornely became at first a regular contributor and then its editor from 1872 to 1879. His style is remarkable for clearness and vigor and compares favorably with the great German classics. The ring in indignation and irony in his articles against the Old Catholics, on the Protestant Association, and on political hypocrisy finds its explanation in the attacks on and in the persecution of the Church and of the order to which he belonged. The expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany in 1872 interrupted his career as a professor and rendered the task of the editor extremely difficult. With three or four of his brethren he took up his residence at Tervuren near Brussels, and although many of his collaborators and the rich library of Maria-Laach were scattered about in different places, he succeeded not only in maintaining the periodical on its former level but also strengthening and widening its influence on Catholic Germany. Most of the men who contributed from that time on to the "Stimmen" were won and trained by the personality of Cornely, who frequently inspired and always carefully revised the papers, thus securing uniformity of tone and tendency. An important stage in the development of the "Stimmen" was marked by the appearance of the first supplements (Ergänzungshefte), in 1876. This new departure was occasioned by the numerous philosophic writings of FatherNew journal on the 'German missions'
Cornely founded in 1873 ''Die katholischen Missionen''. Intended for German readers, this magazine was to describe the labours and successes of the German missionary and to give the history, the geography, and the ethnographic features of the German missions in foreign countries. In the beginning Cornely took the lion's share of work upon himself. Soon, however, the labour was thus divided: Cornely wrote the reports on Europe and Australia; Baumgartner reported on Asia; Kreiten on Africa; and von Hummelauer on America.Professor in Rome
In 1879, Cornely was appointed professor of exegesis at the Gregorian university in Rome. Here he planned and wrote the first volumes of the ''Cursus Scripturæ Sacræ'', a complete biblical encyclopedia, the largest publication of its kind in modern Catholic literature. To carry out a plan so vast required the combined efforts of many scholars. Cornely himself undertook to write the general and special introductions and the commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul. Even this task he could not complete, although he discontinued lecturing in 1889 to devote all his energies to the greatest work of his laborious life.Works
Among his writings are: *Introductio generalis in U. T. libros sacros" (Paris, 1893) *Introductio specialis in historicos V. T. libros" (Paris, 1897) *Introductio specialis in didacticos et propheticos V. T. libros" (Paris, 1897) *Introductio specialis in singulos N. T. libros" (Paris, 1897) *Historicæ et criticæ Introductionis in U. T. libros Compendium" (Paris, 1900) *Synopses omnium librorum sacrorum" (Paris, 1899) *Psalmorum synopses" (Paris, 1899) *Analyses librorum sacrorum N. T." (Paris, 1888) *Commentarium in priorem ep. ad Corinthios" (Paris, 1890) *Commentarius in epistolas ad Cor. alterum et ad Galatas" (Paris, 1892) *Commentarius in ep. ad Romanos" (Paris, 1896) *Leben des sel. Petrus Faber" (Freiburg, 1900) *Leben des sel. Spinola" (Mainz, 1868)References
;Attribution * **Baumgartner, ''Stimmen aus Maria-Laach'', LXXXIV, IV, 357 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornely, Karl Josef Rudolph 1830 births 1908 deaths 19th-century German Jesuits German biblical scholars German encyclopedists German male non-fiction writers Roman Catholic biblical scholars Jesuit theologians