Christoph Ott (Jesuit)

Christoph Ott (born November 2, 1612 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 4, 1684 in Hall) was a German Jesuit and author.

Life

Otts life is only known in part. He entered the Jesuit order in 1628 and worked first as a teacher in various schools of the order, later as a pastor and preacher. From 1653 to 1657 he was professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Ingolstadt , from 1658 to 1664 cathedral preacher at the Augsburg Cathedral . From 1664 he worked in Freiburg in Üechtland ; He is said to have spent his retirement in the Jesuit monastery of Dillingen .

Ott wrote a number of writings, including predominantly controversial theological writings against Protestantism, but also a historical account of the popes from the beginnings to his present day and a work on raising children.

Fonts (selection)

Demonstratio Catholicae Veritatis . Augsburg 1660.
Roma gloriosa or glorious Rome in its 249 popes . Innsbruck 1676.
Historia nova saeculi nostri XVII ferreo-aurei, complectens gesta per Imperium Romano-Germanicum sub Rudolpho II, Matthia I, Ferdinando II et Ferdinando III . Innsbruck 1682.
Incomparable honorary cron, which the Roman Catholic. Churches in this wandering world passage from all 4 parts of the world ... through their conversion to the cath. Belief vil crowned ... and other people have faked . Dillingen 1686.

literature

Karl Werner: Christoph Ott . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 551.
Karl Sommer: The pedagogy of Christoph Otts: with special consideration of his services to the elementary school system. Triltsch 1934, OCLC 45103833 .
Karl Bosl : Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-1162-8 , p. 566 f.
Gerd Treffen: One of the earliest educational guides in German - The “child breeding” of Ingolstadt professor Christoph Ott from 1657 . Ingolstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-932113-61-1 .

Web links

Works by and about Christoph Ott in the German Digital Library
Entry at LEO-BW
Rolf Felbinger: Source autopsy "Christoph Ott (1686)" in: European terms and concepts of Europe in the 17th century. Web project, Wolfgang Schmale (Dir.), On the website of the University of Vienna.

Individual evidence

↑ In the literature, the place of death is usually only given with Hall. According to Karl Sommer: The pedagogy of Christoph Otts: with special consideration of his services to the elementary school system. Triltsch 1934, p. 5, Ott died in "Hall (Switzerland)", which could only mean Alle JU . In the entry at LEO-BW , however, Schwäbisch Hall is specified (although no relationship to this purely Protestant city in the 17th century is known or even likely). Hall in Tirol is also conceivable , as some of Ott's late writings were printed in neighboring Innsbruck. According to Felbinger (see web links), the place and date of death are not known.

personal data
SURNAME	Ott, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Jesuit and author
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1684
Place of death	Hall

[1] In the literature, the place of death is usually only given with Hall. According to Karl Sommer: The pedagogy of Christoph Otts: with special consideration of his services to the elementary school system. Triltsch 1934, p. 5, Ott died in "Hall (Switzerland)", which could only mean Alle JU . In the entry at LEO-BW , however, Schwäbisch Hall is specified (although no relationship to this purely Protestant city in the 17th century is known or even likely). Hall in Tirol is also conceivable , as some of Ott's late writings were printed in neighboring Innsbruck. According to Felbinger (see web links), the place and date of death are not known.