Academy at the cathedral

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The Akademie am Dom - Catholic Academy Vienna is an adult education offer of the theological courses of the Archdiocese of Vienna and is in the tradition of the Vienna Catholic Academy founded by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer in 1945.

Former Federal President Heinz Fischer with his wife Margit Fischer in conversation with the director of the academy Erhard Lesacher and the academy's program director Ingrid Fischer at the opening of the academy on October 6, 2017.

history

Leo Society

On January 28, 1892, the Leo Society was constituted in Vienna , which was to create an association for all Christian scholars in Austria. As early as 1901 it had 2,661 members and cooperated closely with the German Görres Society and the Academy of Sciences in Cracow . The structure of the Leo society comprised different sections: for history, for social sciences, for law, for philosophy, for language and literature (renamed from 1894: for literature and art; from 1901 two: for literature and for visual arts), for education, for Natural sciences. In addition to the annual reports, the magazine “Die Kultur. Journal for Science, Literature and Art ”, as well as“ General Literature Journal ”and“ Theological Studies ”as well as other series and smaller publications. At the end of the 1990s the lecture courses , later the pedagogical- catechetical course and a homiletic course were started. In the course of internal disputes and the financial crisis after 1918, the activities of the Leo society were very limited. After the First World War , the Leo company was able to develop further and in the summer of 1930 it was relocated to the Curhaus on Stephansplatz . After the attack by the Hitler Youth on the Archbishop's Palace on October 8, 1938, the activities of all Catholic organizations were stopped. With the decision of the Vienna magistrate, the Leo Society was dissolved on March 7, 1939.

The letter from Cardinal Innitzer to Abbot Peichl in which the founding day of the Vienna Catholic Academy is determined and Abbot Peichls is asked to take over the office of curator of the Academy.

Vienna Catholic Academy

Three years earlier, on October 13, 1936, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer had opened a "Catholic Academy", which was to serve as a teaching and educational institution alongside the Leo Society. While the Leo Society focused on research, the academy functioned primarily as a Catholic community college and educational institution. The events of the academy took place in the premises of the Schottenstift , the Prelate Dr. Hermann Peichl OSB made available. The academy's work also ended in 1938. The tasks were taken over by the Vienna Archbishop's Pastoral Care Institute, the Catechetical Institute and the Missiological Institute, and above all before the theological courses (at that time the “lay year”).

After the Second World War , Cardinal Innitzer's plan was implemented to found a Vienna Catholic Academy, which had a double task: on the one hand as a research institution and on the other as an educational establishment. It should cultivate the Catholic worldview as well as familiarize the Catholic educated with professional sciences. The academy was founded on June 29, 1945 and its events were held in the Schottenstift . Solemnly opened on October 8, 1945, in the years to come it has done its work in the context of lectures, courses, lectures and conferences, which were organized according to the semester focus. Thematically, the topics revolved around theology, philosophy, psychology, history, art and literature, law and social sciences. The Academy's research work was published in brochures, small letters, in the yearbook, in the Academy's journal "Mitteilungen der Wiener Katholische Akademie" and in the research series "Austria Sacra".

The academy continued its work until the mid-1980s, but in the end it was faced with severe personnel, financial and organizational difficulties. In 1992, the then Auxiliary Bishop Christoph Schönborn made its continued existence a concern, but its activities took place on a smaller and more modest scale than before.

Academy at the cathedral

On May 19, 2017, the Vienna Catholic Academy was given a new shape as the "Academy at the Cathedral - Catholic Academy Vienna" of theological courses . Your new location is the Curhaus at Stephansplatz 3.

On October 6, 2017, the academy at the cathedral was opened by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in the presence of former Federal President Heinz Fischer . The academy's program is not only aimed at believers, but also at all people who are interested in ecclesiastical and social discourses. The academy's program offers lectures, symposia and discussions on an annually changing topic. The events are interdisciplinary. New accents are being set with the focus on “Art & Culture” and “u35: Young Academy” for young adults.

In 2019 Cardinal Christoph Schönborn appointed the Academic Advisory Board of the AKADEMIE am DOM, which is supposed to support the content orientation, the embedding in the scientific discourse and the localization of current issues. The members of the advisory board include the former Federal President Heinz Fischer and Franz Fischler , the journalist Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi , the scientists Franz Kerschbaum, Herbert Pietschmann and Ruth Wodak , the Islamic scholar Mouhanad Khorchide , the Judaist Günter Stemberger , the theologian Paul Zulehner , the social ethicist Maria Katharina Moser and the cultural manager and opera director Roland Geyer . Selected lectures in the AKADEMIE am DOM will be published as podcasts .

literature

  • Catholic Faith and Science in Austria . (Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy. Vol. 1. 1945–1955). Vienna: Herder 1957.
  • Elisabeth Maier: 70 years of the Vienna Catholic Academy. A sketch. In: 70 Years of the Vienna Catholic Academy . (Writings of the Vienna Catholic Academy. 54). Vienna 2015., pp. 3–9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cardinal Archbishop Theodor Innitzer, Die Österreichische Leo Society. An outline of their history in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 3-17, 3.
  2. ^ Cardinal Archbishop Theodor Innitzer, Die Österreichische Leo Society. An outline of their history in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 3-17, 4-5.
  3. ^ Cardinal Archbishop Theodor Innitzer, Die Österreichische Leo Society. An outline of their history in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 3-17, 12-13.
  4. ^ Ferdinand Krones, Prehistory and Foundation of the Vienna Catholic Academy, in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 18-28, 20-24.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Krones, Prehistory and Foundation of the Vienna Catholic Academy, in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 18-28, 24-26.
  6. ^ Ferdinand Krones, The Development of the Vienna Catholic Academy in the First Four Years of Its Existence (1945 to 1949), in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 40-51, 40.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Schöndorfer, The lecture and research work of the Vienna Catholic Academy from 1949 to 1955, in: Catholic faith and science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 60-61, 60.
  8. ↑ Ulrich Schöndorfer, Scientific Tasks of the Vienna Catholic Academy in the second decade of its work, in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 67-68, 67.
  9. ^ Ferdinand Krones, The Publications of the Vienna Catholic Academy, in: Catholic Faith and Science in Austria. Annual report of the Vienna Catholic Academy, Volume 1 (1945-1955), Herder Wien 1957, 81-85, 82-83.
  10. ^ Elisabeth Maier, 70 years of the Vienna Catholic Academy. A sketch, in: 70 Years of the Vienna Catholic Academy. Writings of the Vienna Catholic Academy 54, Vienna 2015, 3-9, 7-9.
  11. ↑ Schönborn gives the go-ahead for "Akademie am Dom" - religion.ORF.at . In: religion.ORF.at . May 5, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Head Mag. Erhard Lesacher: “The Akademie am Dom is a place of intellectual debate and therefore also invites people who do not feel they belong to the church. It should be a forum for the interdisciplinary dialogue between the worlds of church, religion, science and culture and bring people from different backgrounds together. This is expressed in the name of the Akademie am Dom - the cathedral is a religious, but also a cultural factor, a center of the church and a center of the city ”. http://www.theologischekurse.at/site/media/bilder/article/2215.html
  13. ^ Theological courses. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  14. ^ Theological courses. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2018 ; accessed on April 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theologischekurse.at
  15. ↑ kathisch.at : "Akademie am Dom": Schönborn appoints top-class advisory board. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  16. ↑ THEOLOGICAL COURSES. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Podcasts - theology to listen to. Accessed March 31, 2020 .