Alois von Schmid

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Prelate Schmid as an honorary member in the commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic student association "Alemannia" Munich , 1906
Death picture, 1910

Alois von Schmid also Aloys Schmid (born December 22, 1825 in Zaumberg , † March 16, 1910 in Munich ) was a German theologian and philosopher.

biography

Alois von Schmid was born as the son of the Catholic farmer Joseph Schmid in the Upper Allgäu community of Zaumberg (today in Immenstadt ). He attended high school near St. Stephan in Augsburg and from 1844 studied philosophy and theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Here he was a student of the later Bishop Daniel Bonifaz von Haneberg .

On July 27, 1849 he was ordained a priest in the Augsburg Cathedral and on July 30, 1850 he received his doctorate with a thesis "On the origin, growth and decay of the diocesan synods " at the theological faculty of the University of Munich. From the autumn of 1850 taught Schmid at the educational establishment Zweibrücken he became the successor of religion and history, and in December 1852 religious philosopher Martin Deutinger (1815-1864) at the Royal Lyceum in Dillingen appointed.

His lectures dealt with logic , metaphysics , anthropology , aesthetics as well as the history of philosophy and art history. In November 1866 he received a call to the theological faculty of the University of Munich . His predecessor was his former dogmatics professor Maximilian von Stadlbauer (1808–1866). In 1878 Schmid was assigned the subject of apologetics , for whose removal from dogmatics he had long argued. In 1894 Schmid left dogmatics to the theologian Leonhard Atzberger (1854-1918) in order to be able to devote himself mainly to apologetics .

In 1893 Alois Schmid was elevated to the rank of personal nobility for his academic achievements and in 1903 was appointed royal privy councilor. In the same year he was released from the obligation to attend lectures. Schmid also held the honorary titles of " Papal House Prelate ", "Archbishop Spiritual Council " and "Royal Privy Councilor".

Professor Andreas Schmid (1840–1911), director of the Georgianum seminary in Munich , was his brother; Alois Schmid (1854–1911), member of the Reichstag, his nephew.

Philosophy of religion

Alois von Schmid's religious-philosophical concern was to follow the Philosophia perennis of Plato , Aristotle , Thomas Aquinas and others. a. to attract new attention against modern trends (e.g. Hegel ). He advocated a further development of scholasticism . During the disputes in the run-up to the First Vatican Council (1869–1870) about the Syllabus errorum and the dogmatization of papal infallibility , Schmid reaffirmed his conservative theological positions. Schmid rejected all constitutional presbyterial ideas in the Catholic Church Constitution in favor of a strict hierarchy. In his state church law ideas, he leaned on the ultramontanism of the French royalist politician Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821).

Works (selection)

  • The Synod of the Bishopric . Manz publishing house, Regensburg 1850/51
  1. Constitution of the Bishopric Synod . 1850. XX, 404 pp.
  2. Constitutional history of the presbytery and the bishopric synod in the Germanic states up to the Council of Trent , vol. 1 . 1851. VI, 234 pp.
  3. Constitutional history of the bishopric synod in the Germanic states at the Council of Trent until its cessation, vol. 2 . 1851. VI, 319 pp.
  • History of the development of Hegel's logic . An auxiliary book for a historical study of the same with consideration of the latest writings by R. Haym et al. K. Rosary . Manz Verlag, Regensburg 1858. XVI, 264 pp.
  • Epistemology . Herder, Freiburg / B. 1890 (2 vol.).
  • The Thomistic and Scotistic theory of certainty. A historical-critical treatise . Dillingen 1859. 54 pp.
  • Science and Authority. With special regard to the writing by Constantin v. Schäzler's “New Investigations into the Dogma of Grace and the Nature of the Christian Faith” . Lentner Verlag, Munich 1868. 239 pp.
  • Investigations into the ultimate certainty of the belief in revelation . Stahl, Munich 1879. VII, 315 pp.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , Volume 4, Page 355, 1973; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Otto Weiß: "Schmid, Alois Ritter von" , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 23, 2007, pages 141–142
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Alois von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaumberg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1910
Place of death Munich