Joseph Wittig

Joseph Wittig (January 22, 1879 – August 22, 1949) was a German Catholic theologian and writer born in Neusorge, a village in the district of Neurode, Silesia.

Subsequently, he worked as a chaplain in Lauban, and from 1904 studied Christian art and architecture in Rome as a member of the German Archaeological Institute.

In 1922 he was the author of Die Erlösten (The Redeemed), an article that was openly critical of church dogma, and in 1925 published a book that was an historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus Christ.

This latter work, Leben Jesu in Palästina, Schlesien und anderswo, was placed on the Church's index of banned books.

With philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965) and physiologist Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957), he was co-editor of the magazine Die Kreatur, which was founded by Hans Ehrenberg and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.