Caspar Royko

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Caspar Royko

Caspar Royko , also Kašpar Royko and Gašpar Rojko (born January 1, 1744 in Mettau near St. Peter , † April 20, 1819 in Prague ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman , theologian and university professor . He is considered "one of the most important and at the same time most radical Enlightenmentists in Austria".

Life

Royko was born on his parents' estate near Marburg and received his first school education in Marburg. He began his university studies at the University of Graz , in 1763 he moved to the University of Vienna to study law . There he focused on canon law and natural law with Paul Joseph von Riegger and Karl Anton von Martini . He later returned to the University of Graz, where he now studied theology and was awarded a Dr. theol. received his doctorate . Finally in 1766 he was ordained a priest . A time as a pastor in Zellnitz and Witschein followed.

Royko returned to the University of Graz in 1773. There he took a call to the professorship at for logic, metaphysics and ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy. Just one year later, in 1774, he switched to the theological faculty as a full professor of church history. In 1777 he was also appointed director of the Graz seminar . Among other things, Johann Ritter von Kalchberg was his student there.

After the University of Graz was converted into a lyceum in 1782, Royko went to Charles University in Prague. There he was given the chair of church history. In the academic year 1790/1791 he was elected dean of the theological faculty, in the academic year 1797/1798 he was elected rector of the university. His educational and critical lectures were very popular. The first two volumes of his history of the great general church assembly in Kostnitz , however, were placed on the index Librorum Prohibitorum by the church . In this presentation Royko denied the church doctrine of the infallibility of councils , represented an episcopalian church model and pleaded for a dogmatic rehabilitation of Johannes Hus .

Royko had already been appointed gubernial councilor and consultant in spiritual matters by the emperor in 1791 and then took an active part in state church politics in Bohemia. In 1794 he was entrusted by an imperial decree as prelate with the management of the monastery fair adjustment commission in Bohemia. In 1807 he left all previous offices and went into retirement . He was then appointed canon at the collegiate monastery of the All Saints Church on July 28th of that year .

Works (selection)

  • History of the great general church assembly in Kostnitz , 4 volumes, Prague and Graz 1781–1785.
  • Synopsis historiae Religionis , Prague 1785.
  • Introduction to Christian religious and church history , Diesbach, Prague 1788.
  • Spiritual religious and church history , 4 volumes, Widtmann, Prague 1789–1795.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kostnitz is a historical spelling for Constance .
  2. ↑ ÖBL and ADB deliver an appointment as canon . However, there was a chapter of its own at Prague Cathedral. The necrology from the year of his death only reports on an appointment as canon.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schneider : The conciliarism as a problem of modern Catholic theology , 1976, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Hans Schneider: Royko's history of the Council of Constance . In: The conciliarism as a problem of the more recent Catholic theology . Berlin-New York 1976, pp. 148-151 .
personal data
SURNAME Royko, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Royko, Kašpar; Rojko, Gašpar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettau near St. Peter
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1819
Place of death Prague