Caspar Adelmann

Caspar Adelmann (* 1641 probably in Eichstätt ; † September 30, 1703 in Rottenburg ) was a Jesuit scholar and academic teacher.

biography

Adelmann came from the marriage of the Eichstätter cloth maker and council member Melchior Adelmann and his second wife Maria. His siblings included two younger brothers Balthasar and Joseph . Contrary to information in the older literature, which included the three brothers in the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden family , Flachenecker clarified their bourgeois origin.

From October 19, 1655, Adelmann attended the Rudimenta of the Eichstätter Jesuit grammar school, the " Collegium Willibaldinum ". On September 24, 1658 he moved as "Casparus Adelman" to the rhetoric class of the Ingolstadt Jesuit grammar school. Presumably in 1659 he began studying philosophy at the Jesuit University there, which he completed after the usual three years in 1662. He was publicly Master of Philosophy doctorate and entered the Society of Jesus on 30 September 1,662th 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 .

In 1664 he worked as a teacher for several years, from 1667 at the Jesuit University with grammar school in Dillingen . At the same time he completed the four-year study of theology in Ingolstadt from 1668 and was ordained a priest on June 10, 1672 in Eichstätt .

After the tertiary year 1672/73 in Altötting , he taught in 1673/74 in the logic class in Landsberg and from 1674 to 1676 in Porrentruy (Switzerland), where he was also prefect of studies. He then led the three-year philosophy course in Lucerne and made his last vows there on February 2, 1677, with which he bound himself to the order for life.

In October 1679 Caspar was appointed full professor at the Bavarian State University of Ingolstadt, which was headed by the Jesuits. From 1683 he worked as a scholar prefect in Dillingen. On November 12, 1686, he received his doctorate in theology in Constance , where the University of Freiburg im Breisgau had been relocated because of the French occupation . There he held the second chair for scholasticism until 1691 and also taught morality in 1687/88 . He was dean of the theological faculty three times .

In 1691 he returned from Constance to Ingolstadt, where he taught morality until 1695. From 1697 to 1700 he was rector of the Jesuits in Feldkirch and from 1700 until his death in Rottenburg am Neckar .

Independent scientific activity, which could have been reflected in publications, was not planned by the Jesuits in the late 17th century.

Works (unprinted)

• Assertiones Philosophicae… Ingolstadt 1682.
• Disputatio de anima. Ingolstadt 1682.

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, pp. 359f.
• Helmut Flachenecker : Educational careers of citizen sons in the Societas Jesu. On the history of the Eichstatt Adelmann families. In: Historischer Verein Eichstätt (ed.): Collection sheet , 87th year 1994, pp. 137–147.