Daniel Tobenz

Daniel Tobenz (born December 19, 1743 in Vienna ; † August 20, 1819 ibid) was an Austrian Catholic theologian .

Life

Tobenz studied theology and philosophy in his hometown . In 1762 he entered the order of the regulated Canons of St. Augustine in Klosterneuburg . In the local monastery he took his religious vows in 1763 and was ordained priest in 1768 . He then worked as a pastor in Vienna and Hietzing . In 1772 he defended a dissertation and received a doctorate in theology. Three years later he was appointed to Vienna. At the University of Vienna he was given a professorship in patrology , literary history and theological polemics.

When Tobenz became dean of the theological faculty in 1786 , he also took up the chair of hermeneutics , New Testament exegesis and the Greek language. In 1787 he was prefect in the Neuhof monastery and from 1790 to 1803 professor of dogmatics at the University of Vienna . In 1806 Archduke Rudolph made him a clergyman . When Tobenz was retired in 1811, he returned to Neuhof Monastery. There, death surprised him on August 20, 1819, while he was working on the revision of his theological writings for the purpose of a complete edition.

This edition, whose completion he did not live to see, appeared from 1814 to 1822 in 15 octave volumes. In addition, his works on a paraphrase on the Psalms and a critical commentary on the New Testament, as well as a reference work on moral theology , dogmatics and patristics, which were themselves very rich, should also be mentioned.

Works

• Patrologiae et historiae literary. Theolog. Conspectus. Vienna 1776
• Institutiones usus et doctrinae Patrum. Pars I et II. Vienna 1777–1779
• Examen tractatus Joannis Barbeyraci de doctrina morali Patrum ecclesiae, Dissertatio prima. 1785
• Institutiones, usus et doctrina patrum. Pesth 1787, 3rd ed. 1819;
• Commentarius in Novum Testamentum. 1804-1806
• Paraphrasis Psalmorum ex hebraico adornate, notis et summaris instructa. Vienna 1814 2nd parts
• Institutiones S. Scripturae. Vienna 1814, 2 vol.
• Institutiones theologiae moralis. Vienna 1815, 3 vol.
• Commentarius in S. Scripturam novi Foederis. Vienna 1819;
• Institutiones theologiae dogmaticae. Vienna 1820, 5 vols.
• Opera Omnia. 1814-22, 15 vols.

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p.
• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Tobenz, Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 390.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Tobenz, Daniel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 45th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 214 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anton Mayer: History of intellectual culture in Lower Austria from the earliest times to the present. A contribution to a history of intellectual culture in southeast Germany. Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1878, 1st vol. P. 197
• Berthold Otto Černík: The writers of the still existing Augustinian canons of Austria from 1600 to the present day. Heinrich Kirsch Verlag, Vienna, 1905, pp. 255–227.
• Franz Graeffer, Johann Jakob Czikann: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie or alphabetical presentation of the most remarkable peculiarities of the imperial era, with regard to nature, life and institutions, industry and commerce, public and private institutions, education and science, literature and art, geography and statistics , History, genealogy and biography, as well as all main objects of his civilization relations. 1836, 5th vol., P. 376, ( online ).
• The latest conversation lexicon or Allgemeine Deutsche Real-Encyclopedie for educated classes. Verlag Franz Friedrich, Vienna 1834, Vol. 17, p. 342, ([Online]).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 5th ed., 1800, p. 84, ( online ); 1812, vol. 16, p. 36, ( online ); 1827, vol. 21, p. 96, ( online ).