Anton Mauss

Anton Mauss (born March 1, 1868 in Cologne , † September 13, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian , Roman Catholic priest , religion teacher and journalist . He was the main representative of integralism in Vienna.

Life

He studied theology in Bonn, Friborg and Breslau until he transferred to the St. Pölten seminary in 1894 . There he was ordained a priest in 1895. After pastoral care in Tulln , Schrems and Zwettl , he began working as a religion teacher in Vienna in 1898. In 1901 the diocese of St. Pölten allowed him to join the clergy of the archdiocese of Vienna , where he worked until his death.

Austria's Catholic Sunday Gazette

In addition to his diverse journalistic activities, such as editor of the Mariazeller Glöcklein and author of a sacred hymn book, Mauss was editor of Austria's Catholic Sunday Gazette , which appeared in Vienna from 1910 to 1915. The magazine took a pronounced and self-confident "clerical" position, while sharply criticizing liberal tendencies among Austrian Catholics. The authors of the magazine promoted greater loyalty to the Pope, especially to the person of Pope Pius X and the anti-modernist oath he introduced . Mauss was considered the most radical spokesman for integralism . The newspaper tended to polemics against theologians who were understood by the editors to be modernists or reform Catholics. Albert Ehrhard and Alfred Loisy , as well as liberal Protestants and Freemasons, were typical of the enemy . The magazine was criticized by Austrian theologians for trying to transfer a German or Cologne perspective to church life in Austria, which ultimately did not apply.

Pastoral work

From 1900 to 1917 Mauss was rector of the church in St. Ruprecht (Vienna I.) and religion teacher in a girls' school. He founded a nursery for boys and girls in Vienna-Währing (18th district) and was a committed sponsor of the Mariazell pilgrimage site .

literature

• F. Loidl:  Mauss Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 159.
• Otto Weiß: Austria's Catholic Sunday Gazette and its editor Dr. Mauß [sic]. In: Otto Weiß: Modernism and anti-modernism in the Dominican order. At the same time a contribution to the “Sodalitium Pianum” (= sources and studies on the recent history of theology 2). Regensburg 1998, pp. 91-106.
• Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr : The reception of the anti-modernist oath in Vienna. In: Forum Katholische Theologie 28 (2012), pp. 33–49.