Andreas Oberleitner (Orientalist)

Andreas Oberleitner OSB (born January 12, 1789 in Angern an der March , † June 10, 1832 in Vienna ; actually Franz Xaver Oberleitner ) was an Austrian Benedictine and orientalist .

He was the younger brother of the musician and composer Andreas Oberleitner .

Life

Oberleitner, the son of an administrator in the service of the Kinsky family , first went to school in Gaunersdorf , but was accepted into the Vienna Boys' Choir at the age of ten and attended the St. Anna high school and later the philosophical classes in Vienna. In 1807 he joined the Schottenstift , studied theology at the University of Vienna from 1808 to 1812 and was ordained a priest in 1812 . In the same year he was prefect of studies in the monastery. From 1813 to 1816 he taught the first humanity classes at the Schottengymnasium . At the same time he attended lectures on the Arabic , Syrian and Chaldean languages given by the Maronite priest Anton Aryda at the university . When he returned to Syria in 1816 , Oberleitner was appointed professor of oriental languages and biblical exegesis in his place . In 1817 he received his doctorate in theology . In the years 1818/1819, 1819/1820 and 1825/1826 he was Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty . From 1823 he also held the office of university archivist . He died unexpectedly in 1832 at the age of 43.

Oberleitner gained an excellent reputation as an orientalist. His textbooks represented significant achievements and were popular tools because of their functional structure.

Works

Joannis Jahn Elementa aramaicae seu chaldaeo-syriacae linguae, latine reddita, et nonnullis accessionibus aucta . Vienna 1820.
Fundamenta linguae arabicae . Vienna 1822.
Chrestomathia arabica una cum glossario arabico-latino . 2 volumes. Vienna 1823–1824.
Chrestomathia syriaca una cum glossario syriaco-latino . 2 volumes. Vienna 1826–1827.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Oberleitner, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, p. 455 f. ( Digitized version ).
Scriptores Ordinis S. Benedicti, qui 1750-1880 forunt in Imperio Austriaco-Hungarico . Vienna 1881, pp. 323-325 ( online ).
Albert Hübl : History of teaching in the Schotten Abbey in Vienna . Fromme, Vienna 1907, p. 138.
Cölestin Roman Rapf: Oberleitner P. Andreas (Franz). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 188.

Individual evidence

↑ So unanimously the secondary literature; the baptismal register Angern an der March, tom. I, p. 5 ( facsimile ), however, notes November 13, 1788.

personal data
SURNAME	Oberleitner, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oberleitner, Franz Xaver (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Benedictine and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Angern on the March
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1832
Place of death	Vienna

[1] So unanimously the secondary literature; the baptismal register Angern an der March, tom. I, p. 5 ( facsimile ), however, notes November 13, 1788.