Carl Jellouschek

Carl Johann Jellouschek OSB (born October 31, 1887 ; † August 6, 1961 ) was an Austrian Benedictine, university professor and member of the Vienna Catholic Academy. First he was a monk of the Vienna Schottenstift and from 1926 a monk of the Seitenstetten monastery .

Life

Jellouschek graduated from high school in his hometown Linz with distinction. In 1906 he entered the Vienna Schottenstift and made his solemn profession there on October 9, 1910 . He was ordained a priest on July 23, 1911. In 1914 he obtained a doctorate in theology at the Vienna Faculty and in 1915 he was qualified to teach religion at secondary schools. In addition to his work as a religion teacher at the Schottengymnasium, he immersed himself in scholastic theology under the direction of Martin Grabmann.

In 1918 Jellouschek completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna and was also temporarily active as a dogmatics professor at the Benedictine University of Sant'Anselmo in Rome. From 1926 Carl Jellouschek was the conventual of the Benedictine monastery Seitenstetten. In 1935 he was appointed full professor of fundamental theology and apologetics at the Vienna Theological Faculty, and in 1938 he took over the chair for special dogmatics. In 1945/46, 1951/52 and 1957/58 he was dean of the theological faculty and in the academic year 1955/56 he was rector of the University of Vienna . Retired in 1958, Jellouschek devoted himself to research into medieval mystical theology. He also appeared at the Vienna Catholic Academy with dogmatic lectures.

In addition to his scientific work, Father Carl Jellouschek worked for several years as a novice master, instructor for lay brothers and most recently as superior of the Seitenstetten House in Vienna. He was buried on August 12, 1961 in Seitenstetten.

Selected works

• Defense of the possibility of a beginningless world creation by Herveus Natalis, Joannes a Neapoli, Gregorius Ariminensis and Joannes Capreolus (Paderborn 1912).
• On the doctrine of the distinction between essence and existence in the scholasticism of the order of preachers (1916).
• John of Naples and his doctrine of the relationship between God and the world. A contribution to the history of the oldest Thomist School (Vienna 1918).
• Mary in the Light of Faith Science (Ed. With Abbot Hermann Peichl ) (Vienna [published 1955] 1956).
• Content and development of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Vienna 1956).
• The oldest Viennese theologians and the dogma from 1950. Inauguration lecture given on November 10, 1955 (Vienna 1956).