Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber

Augustin Gruber, lithograph by Friedrich Lieder around 1830

Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber (born June 23, 1763 in Vienna ; † June 28, 1835 in Salzburg ) was Archbishop of Salzburg.

Life

Archbishops Gruber and Tarnóczy burial place

Augustin Gruber was born the son of a businessman. He studied in Vienna and entered the Augustinian order in 1780 , which he left in 1782 to enter the general seminary. In 1788 he became a priest in Brunn am Gebirge , in 1794 in Josefstadt in Vienna and in 1796 in St. Anna in Vienna. In 1802 he became church advisor to the state government, in 1806 he became a real councilor and church advisor to the court chancellery. Gruber obtained his doctorate in 1813. theol.

On September 8, 1816, he was ordained Bishop of Laibach by Archbishop Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart of Vienna . On February 16, 1823, he was presented by the emperor as Archbishop of Salzburg . After confirmation by the Pope, Gruber was able to take office on March 25, 1825.

Archbishop Augustin Gruber has u. a. Catechetical lectures held, summarized in the publication Catechetical Lectures on St. Augustine's book: From the instruction of the ignorant in religion ... (Salzburg 1830). In the period between the Enlightenment and Romanticism , when a neo-scholastic, uniform theology was renaissance in theory and practice, he carried out preparatory work that extended to the later “catechetical reform movement”. After his death, Gruber was buried in Salzburg Cathedral.

literature

• Gruber Augustin Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 80.
• Franz Valentin Zillner:  Gruber, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 791.
• Christian Greinz: The Archbishop's Curia and the City Deanery of Salzburg, Verlag d. Archbishop's Consistory, Salzburg 1929.
• Peter Unkelbach: AUGUSTIN GRUBER (1763-1835) . Catechist, civil servant, bishop and metropolitan in Josephine Austria, series of publications by the “Archbishop Rohracher Study Fund ”, Volume 5, Limburg an der Lahn / Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-9501073-0-4 .

Web links

Commons : Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Anton Kautschitz	Bishop of Ljubljana 1816 - 1823	Anton Alois Wolf
Leopold Maximilian von Firmian	Archbishop of Salzburg 1823 - 1835	Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg