Albert Wiesinger
Albert Wiesinger (born August 12, 1830 in Vienna ; † October 8, 1896 there ) was an Austrian pastor and journalist .
Life
Wiesinger studied theology at the University of Vienna . He was ordained a priest in 1855 and was then pastor in the parish of the Viennese suburb of Matzleinsdorf . Later he was appointed by Cardinal Rauscher to the court parish of Sankt Augustin and in 1866 to the city parish of St. Peter .
Wiesinger's journalistic career began on December 11, 1859 as a columnist for the conservative daily newspaper Die Gegenwart . In 1864 he succeeded Sebastian Brunner in the role of editor-in-chief and publisher of the Wiener Kirchenzeitung and consistently continued his anti-Semitic line. Under his leadership, the newspaper became a particularly radical Catholic newspaper in Vienna's newspaper spectrum. Wiesinger's polemically written articles in the Vienna church newspaper about Jewish citizens and liberalism , especially in the “marginal glosses” of that newspaper, led to ongoing court cases. Wiesinger saw his journalistic work, which he put in the service of the “fight against Judaism”, as a kind of “self-defense” against ongoing anti-church attacks that had previously taken place. He saw his anti-Semitic book “Ghetto Stories”, published on March 11, 1865, as “an answer to the constant Jewish attacks on the Christian religion, orders, priests and Pope” and as “an attack on today's mundane Judaism”. With this mentality, Wiesinger is regarded as a pioneer of the later, racial- based anti-Semitism of Georg von Schönerer and his Pan-German movement , from which Wiesinger distanced himself from the 1890s.
Wiesinger remained its editor-in-chief until the Wiener Kirchenzeitung was closed on December 26, 1874. Before that, in 1872 he had taken over the editorial management of the “ Volksblatt für Stadt und Land ” at short notice , but in the same year changed to the editorial management of the monthly newspaper “ Österreichischer Volksfreund ” at the request of Cardinal Rauscher , which he headed until 1875. In addition, Wiesinger was from 1867 to 1889 editor of the diocese newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vienna "Capistran". He also wrote numerous brochures and pamphlets as well as local historical novels.
Wiesinger died on October 8, 1896 in the Rudolfinerhaus in Vienna- Döbling . His final resting place is in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery .
1902 was the first district of Vienna in the tenure of Karl Lueger , the Wiesingerstraße named after him.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wiesinger, Albert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 56th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1888, pp. 71–77 ( digitized version ).
- Ekkart Sauser : Wiesinger, Albert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1518-1520.
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert Wiesinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Albert Wiesinger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Entry on Albert Wiesinger in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 47f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
- ↑ a b Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon, Albert Wiesinger , list of estates of the ÖNB , September 2009
- ↑ Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the total stock of the ÖNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesinger, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pastor and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1896 |
| Place of death | Vienna |