Anton Puntigam

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Anton Puntigam (born May 15, 1859 in Salsach , Eastern Styria , † September 4, 1926 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Jesuit , youth chaplain and spiritual writer .

Life

Puntigam came from a Styrian farming family with many children. He attended grammar school in Graz , after which he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Sankt Andrä in 1879 . He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck and was ordained a priest in 1895.

From 1896 to 1908 Puntigam was prefect general of the boys' seminary of Travnik . After a conflict with an Austrian official and a year-long stay in Vienna, he returned to Bosnia and became a theology professor and youth minister in Sarajevo . Here he founded the magazine Voices from Bosnia . After the assassination attempt on the Austrian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este on June 28, 1914, Puntigam donated the last unction and blessed the body in Sarajevo's town hall . After the trial of the assassins, he took the presumed murder weapon, a Browning with the serial number 19074, and planned to found a Franz Ferdinand Museum, which however did not come about due to the war and the subsequent collapse of the monarchy. The weapon was only found again in 2004 and handed over to the Army History Museum in Vienna.

In the autumn of 1918, Puntigam fled Sarajevo and went to Vienna. In 1919 he was sent to Split as a youth chaplain, but returned to Vienna in 1920 at his request. Here he founded the Eucharistic League of Nations , which the Archbishops of Prague and Lemberg joined. At the same time he published a magazine The Eucharistic League of Nations - organ of the Eucharistic League of Nations in St. Spirit for the unification of Christianity and also a publishing house existed in which the series New Converts Images appeared. In 1923 he translated the book L'Apôtre de Normale supérieure, Pierre Poyet by the Jesuit Albert Bessières into German. He died in the Hartmann Hospital in Vienna after a long period of suffering and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 1936 the Puntigamgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Of his writings, Peter Barbaric, a youth after the heart of God , found the most widely distributed. The book has been translated into Croatian, Czech, Slovenian, Hungarian and Italian. In Through the Storms of Youth , Puntigam speaks out particularly against masturbation and takes the view that this causes spinal cord diseases and must be confessed in any case.

Fonts

  • Peter Barbaric, a youth after the heart of God . Innsbruck 1901
  • The consecration of youth to the immaculate conception . Vienna 1904
  • Our future in Bosnia . Graz 1909
  • The Catholic Church in Bosnia . Cologne 1909
  • The blessed passing of the great Archbishop of Sarajevo Dr. Josef Stadler . Vienna 1919
  • Through the storms of youth. Thoughts and stories for every youth and childhood friend . Vienna 1924
  • The walk to God. Thoughts and suggestions . Vienna 1925
  • Exercises for laypeople. 27 lectures for spiritual exercises with special consideration for the youth. Innsbruck 1930

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Found: the gun that shook the world . The Telegraph on June 22, 2004. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Puntigam, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Jesuit, youth pastor and spiritual writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Salsach , Eastern Styria
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1926
Place of death Vienna