Balthasar Adelmann

Balthasar Adelmann (born July 9, 1645 in Eichstätt ; † December 27, 1713 in Munich ) was a Jesuit and teacher at various Jesuit universities and grammar schools.

biography

Adelmann came from the marriage of the Eichstätter cloth maker and council member Melchior Adelmann and his second wife Maria. In terms of siblings, he had three sisters as the older brother Caspar and the younger brother Joseph . Contrary to information in the older literature, which included the three brothers in the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden family , Flachenecker clarified their bourgeois origin.

As a half-orphan, Adelmann attended the Rudimenta of the Eichstätter Jesuit grammar school, the "Collegium Willibaldinum", from October 18, 1657 . On October 23, 1663 he moved to the Ingolstadt Jesuit high school to study logic ; in the register there he is referred to as "pauper", as "poor". After completing his studies with a master's degree in philosophy , he entered the Jesuit order on August 25, 1666. He spent the two-year novitiate life in the novitiate of the Upper German Jesuit Province in Landsberg am Lech and took his vows at the end of the novitiate . From 1672/73 to 1675/76 he studied theology at the Ingolstadt Jesuit College and was ordained a priest in Eichstätt in 1676 . On February 2, 1681, he made his last vows in Innsbruck , with which he bound himself to the order for life.

He then taught philosophy in Lucerne as part of the three-year philosophy course there. In 1688 he returned to Ingolstadt, where he became professor of ethics . In 1695 he was provable as prefect in the Dillingen branch for only a few months . After working in Amberg , he returned to the Eichstätter Jesuit College in 1793, where he worked until 1707 as "Father Spiritual ".

In total, Balthasar Adelmann spent three years as a teacher of grammar , two as a teacher of humanities , five as a teacher of rhetoric , six as a teacher of philosophy , two as a teacher of controversial theology , nine years as a casuistry teacher and one year as a scholastic teacher. When he came to Munich and where he died is not known.

Works

• De Anima Rationali (On the rational soul), Disputation, Lucerne 1688

literature

• Götz Frhr. v. Pölnitz (ed.): Register of the University of Ingolstadt , Vol. 1, 2, 2, Munich 1940
• Ferdinand Strobel (editor): The Society of Jesus in Switzerland , in: Helvetia Sacra 7, Bern 1976, p. 359f.
• Gerhard Wilczek: The Jesuits in Ingolstadt , supplement to the Donaukurier Ingolstadt of July 31, 1991
• Helmut Flachenecker : Educational careers of citizen sons in the Societas Jesu. On the history of the Eichstatt Adelmann families. In: Historischer Verein Eichstätt (ed.): Collective sheet 87th year 1994, pp. 137–147.
• Gerhard Wilczek: Eras of the University of Ingolstadt. 3. Enlightenment , in: Ingolstädter Heimatblätter, 65th year, No. 4, 2002, p. 3f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "22. December “according to Aloys De Backer, Carlos Sommervogel (ed.): Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Part 1: Bibliography. Volume 1: Abad - Boujart. Nouvelle édition. O. Schepens et al., Brussels et al. 1890, col. 53.