Erenbert Josef Schächer

Erenbert Josef Schächer OSB (born July 7, 1900 in Neustadl in Bohemia , † December 26, 1974 in Kremsmünster , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Schächer, who came from the Egerland, joined the Benedictine order in Kremsmünster in 1918 . After his ordination (1923) he studied classical philology at the University of Vienna , especially with Hans von Arnim . After receiving his doctorate (1926) he deepened his studies at the universities of Berlin (with Werner Jaeger ) and Oxford . He focused increasingly on Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle . In 1937 he completed his habilitation with the writing of sources and problem-historical studies on the foundation of the philia theory with Aristotle and in early Peripatos at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . Since then he has taught there as a lecturer and later as adjunct professor. In 1946 he followed a call to a full chair for Christian philosophy at the theological faculty in Salzburg . After the reestablishment of the University of Salzburg and the establishment of the Institute for Classical Philology, he was appointed full professor of Classical Philology in 1965. In 1971 he retired .

Schächer's main research focus throughout his life was the philosophy of Aristotle and his school, Peripatos . In his work on the Corpus Aristotelicum and the Aristotelian ethics, he combined philological analysis and interpretation with approaches from the history of ideas.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KAV Suevia Berlin, K.Ö.St.V. Austria Wien and K.Ö.HV Rheno-Juvavia Salzburg.

Fonts (selection)

Apostolate in the service of Christ the King . Berlin 1938
The source of the Lord God. From the monastery chronicle of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King . Edited with a foreword and hand drawings. Einsiedeln 1939
Studies on the Ethics of the Corpus Aristotelicum . Two parts, Paderborn 1940. Reprinted in New York 1968
Is the Corpus Aristotelicum post-Aristotelian? Josef Zürcher's hypothesis and its assessment in scholarly research. Critical appraisal. A contribution to the method problem of the Corpus Aristotelicum research . Munich 1963

literature

Georg Pfligersdorffer : Erenbert J. Schächer at the age of seventy . In: Anzeiger für die Altarwissenschaft . Volume 23 (1970), Col. 253f.
Austrians from Sudeten German tribe. Honored school men, church dignitaries . Vienna 1961, p. 98
Yearbook of the University of Salzburg 1973 / 74–1974 / 75, pp. 145–148 (biography and list of publications)
Robert Muth : Republic of Austria. Research in the field of classical philology . In: La filologia greca e latina nel secolo XX. Atti del Congresso Internazionale. Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, September 17-21, 1984 . Volume 1, Pisa 1989, pp. 341–393 (on Schächer especially p. 392)

Web links

Literature by and about Erenbert Josef Schächer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . With selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 2: N - Z. Weinmann, Männedorf 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schächer, Erenbert Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schächer, Erenbert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadl in Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 1974
Place of death	Kremsmünster , Upper Austria

[1] Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . With selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 2: N - Z. Weinmann, Männedorf 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 .