Albert Maria Weiss

Albert Maria Weiss (pseudonym Heinrich von der Clana ; born April 22, 1844 in Indersdorf , Upper Bavaria , † August 16, 1925 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) was a German Catholic theologian .

Life

After attending the Benedictine grammar school in Munich , Weiss studied theology and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1867 . After his doctorate as Dr. theol. in Munich (1870) he was appointed Lyzeal professor in 1873. In 1876 he entered the Dominican order in Graz and taught at the Austrian house institution of the order. In 1890 he became professor of social science at the newly founded University of Friborg / Switzerland , first at the philosophical, from 1890 to 1892 at the legal and from 1890 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1919 at the theological faculty. In 1897 he received the chair for apologetics , in 1896/1897 and 1902/1903 he was dean of the theological faculty. Between 1892 and 1895 he was superior and professor in Graz and Vienna. His main research interests were patristics , medieval scholasticism and mysticism . As a Catholic publicist, he fought against political liberalism. Within the church he was a sharp critic of reform Catholicism and modernism as well as any activity by Catholic lay people that was independent of the church hierarchy, for example in Christian trade unions and Christian social parties. In this regard, he was one of the main ideas behind the anti-modernist encyclical Pascendi . Weiss supported the ideas of Karl von Vogelsang and was close to the Union de Friborg , a Catholic association that dealt with social and economic issues. In addition to his teaching post, he took on diplomatic missions in Luxembourg and Austria.

Publications (selection)

• Early Church pedagogy: presented in the catechumenate and catechesis of the first six centuries. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1869
• Apology of Christianity from the standpoint of custom and culture. 5 volumes, Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1888/1892
• The art to live. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1901
• The religious danger. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1904
• Life and conscience issues of the present. 2 volumes, Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1911
• Liberalism and Christianity. Petrus-Verlag, Trier 1914
• Wisdom in your pocket. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1915
• Jesus Christ, the Apologia perennis of Christianity. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1922
• Life path and life's work: A modern prophetic life. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1925

literature

• Claus Arnold : A Little History of Modernism . Herder, Freiburg 2007, pp. 109–115. ISBN 978-3-451-29106-7 .
• Felix Dirsch : Solidarism and Social Ethics. Approaches to the reinterpretation of a modern current of Catholic social philosophy. LIT, Berlin 2006, pp. 154-167.
• Michael Langer : Between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitic temptation. Catholic Theologians and Judaism in the 19th Century. In: Michael Kohlstruck / Andreas Klärner (ed.): Exclusion and enmity. Studies on anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism. Festschrift for Rainer Erb. Metropol, Berlin 2011, pp. 51–66.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 10 (1999)
• Friedrich Wienstein: Lexicon of the Catholic German poets. From the beginning of the Middle Ages to the present. Breer & Thiemann, Hamm 1899.
• Otto Weiß : Modernism and Anti-Modernism in the Dominican Order. At the same time a contribution to the Sodalitium Pianum. Pustet, Regensburg 1998, pp. 133-212.
• Historical-biographical lexicon of Switzerland. Published under the direction of Heinrich Türler , Marcel Godet, Victor Attinger. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1921–1934.
• Lexicon for theology and church / founded by Michael Buchberger. Edited by Josef Höfer and Karl Rahner. - 2nd edition - Freiburg i. Br.: Herder, 1930-1938
• Karl Josef Rivinius :  Weiss, Albert Maria. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 647-652.
• Gaston Gaudard: Weiss, Albert Maria. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Entry on Weiß, Albert Maria in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Wolfram Hoyer:  Weiss (white), Albert Maria (Adalbert Gottlieb). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 16, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957–2013, p. 83 f. (Direct links on p. 83 , p. 84 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Maria Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library