Klaus Gamber (23 April 1919 – 2 June 1989) was a German Catholic liturgist.
Gamber was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1919. He was the author of Die Reform der römischen Liturgie, which was subsequently translated into English and published as The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background. He was one of the principal intellectual critics of the liturgical reforms brought under the papacy of Paul VI. His critical work was praised by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the later Pope Benedict XVI). He is credited with being one of the academic inspirations behind the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum allowing broader use of the 1962 Roman Missal.
Gamber died in Regensburg in 1989.
Bibliography Die Liturgie der Goten und der Armenier: Versuch einer Darstellung und Hinführung (Pustet) Ein kleines Kind, der ewige Gott: Bild und Botschaft von Christi Geburt (1980) Orientierung an der Orthodoxie: Die Tradition der Ostkirche als Richtschnur in Liturgie und Verkündigung (Pustet, 1981) Das Reich Gottes in uns: und die Einheit der Kirche (1981) Opfer und Mahl: Gedanken zur Feier der Eucharistie im Geist der Kirchenvater (Pustet, 1982) Alter und neuer Messritus: Der theologische Hintergrund der Liturgiereform (Pustet, 1983) Das Geheimnis der sieben Sterne: zur Symbolik der Apokalypse (1987) Zum Herrn hin!: Fragen um Kirchenbau und Gebet nach Osten (1987) The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background (Una Voce, 1993) The Modern Rite: Collected Essays on the Reform of the Liturgy (St. Michael's Abbey Press, 2002) Sacrifice et mystère dans l'eucharistie (2005) Tournés vers le Seigneur! (2005)
References
BALDOVIN John F. Klaus Gamber and the post-Vatican II reform of the Roman Liturgy, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Studia liturgica, 2003 Book review, AD2000