Adam Tanner

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Adam Tanner (Latinized Adamus Tannerus ; born April 14, 1572 in Innsbruck , † May 25, 1632 in Unken near Salzburg) was a Jesuit , theologian of the Counter Reformation , professor of theology and witch theorist .

Title page of Tanner's main work Universa Theologia Scholastica

Life

Adam Tanner was the son of Christoph Tanner and Margarethe Tanner, née Kastl (Castl). He attended high school in Innsbruck and then studied at the University of Dillingen and Landsberg. On October 6, 1590, he joined the Jesuits . Tanner studied philosophy and theology. In Ingolstadt he became a theological student of Gregory of Valencia (1549-1603). He also dealt with the sunspots and comets, whereby he was against the Copernican system . One of Tanner's works is directed against astrology .

Adam Tanner worked for 34 years as a professor of theology in Munich , 1603 in Ingolstadt , Dillingen , Prague and 1618 in Vienna at the invitation of Emperor Matthias . With Jakob Gretser he took part in the Regensburg Religious Discussion in 1601 , in which he had a special share. In 1627 he was appointed Chancellor at Charles University in Prague on the proposal of Emperor Ferdinand II . His main works are the “Universa Theologica scholastica” (1626–1627) and the “Dioptra fidei” (guideline in matters of faith).

In several publications Tanner turned against the witch hunt . Although he affirmed the existence of witches , he considered punishing them impossible for reasons that could not be clearly proven. He demanded that the defendants should be assumed to be innocent until proven otherwise. Confessions under torture should not be used as grounds for a verdict. Tanner's demands brought manifold hostility. Angry inquisitors threatened him with torture themselves.

He died in the village of Unken near Salzburg . The grave can no longer be found since the church was rebuilt. According to legend, the villagers initially refused to give him a Christian burial because a microscope with a small hairy insect was found in his estate, which they thought was a "glass devil". He had received the microscope from Christoph Scheiner .

The Tannerus crater on the moon was named after him.

bibliography

  • Theses theologicae ..., Ingolstadt 1595
  • Disputatio theologica de verbo Dei scripto et non scripto, ..., Munich 1599
  • Thorough, detailed report of the beginning, progress and end of the Regenspurgische Colloquii, so anno 1601 between the Catholic one and the Augspurgische Confessio dedicated to theologians on the other ..., Munich 1602
  • Apologeticus Adami Tanneri Societatis Iesu Theologi. Pro compendiaria relatione de Colloquio Ratisbonense, anni 1601 ..., Mainz 1603
  • Disputatio theologica de divina gratia. ..., Ingolstadt 1605
  • Defensionis Ecclesiae Libertatis Libri duo: contra Venetae causae Patronos, ..., Ingolstadt 1607
  • Anatomiæ confessionis augustanæ, Ingolstadt 1613
  • Astrologia sacra, Ingolstadt 1615
  • Apologia pro Societate Iesu ex Bohemiae regno: Ab eiusdem regni statibus religionis sub utraque publico decreto immerito proscripta, Vienna 1618
  • Adam Tanneri e Societate Jesu Theologi, Dissertatio Peripatetico-Theologica, de Coelis. In qua de Coelorum ortu, interitu, substantia, accidentibus, novis Phaenomenis, ..., Ingolstadt 1621
  • Universa theologia scholastica, speculativa, practica ad methodum S. Thomae, 4 vols., Ingolstadt 1626–1627

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt: Doctor Doctorum - On the 400th anniversary of the death of Gregory of Valencia (by Gerd Bäumen )
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German witch theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1632
Place of death Token near Salzburg