Ferdinand Geminian Wanker

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Ferdinand Geminian Wanker (born October 2, 1758 in Freiburg i. Br. , † January 19, 1824 ibid) was a German Catholic moral theologian .

Life

Ferdinand Geminian Wanker was born to middle-class parents and began studying at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg after attending the city high school in 1772 . In 1773 he received a free scholarship from the Collegium Sapientiae through patrons and continued his studies at the theological faculty in 1776. He graduated with a Bachelor of Theology in 1781 . It was on May 23, 1782 Constance from the Prince Bishop Max Christoph von Rodt for priests ordained and got a job as a vicar in Feldkirch , but soon as educators young nobleman to Freiburg back. In 1783 he became vice rector of the general seminar in Freiburg and in 1788 he completed his doctoral thesis and became professor of moral theology at the theological faculty in Freiburg, having previously turned down an offer from Vienna because he could no longer lead the seminar there. His inaugural address, which was given in the presence of Duke Carl von Württemberg in 1789 , had the title About the causes why the morality of Christianity has so seldom produced its glorious fruits among its believers . In 1800 he was appointed censor of theological writings. In 1811 he was appointed Grand Ducal Baden clergy and from that year until his death he was director of the Heinrich Sautier Foundation, an educational institution for orphaned boys and girls. He died on January 19, 1824 as Archbishop- designate for the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Wanker is buried in the old cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau. The Freiburg sculptor Josef Alois Knittel created his tomb .

Fonts

  • Christian moral teaching or teaching of the behavior of the Christian in order to become truly happy through virtue. 2 volumes. 1794.
  • Lectures on religion according to reason and revelation. For academics and educated Christians. 1828
  • Collected Writings. 4 volumes. 1830.
  • Digitized works in the Freiburg University Library

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans . Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1826, 2nd year, 1824, 1st issue, p. 168 ( online ).
  • General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. 7th edition, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1827, 12th volume, p. 65. ( Online )
  • Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1835, Vol. 4, p. 654, ( online ).
  • Wilhelm Heinen: The anthropology in the moral doctrine of Ferdinand Geminian Wankers (1758-1824) . Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1955.
  • Ernst Münch : Ferdinand Wanker, professor of morality and designated Archbishop of Freiburg . In: Ders .: Biographical-historical studies . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1836, Vol. 2, pp. 267-312 ( digitized version )
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Wanker, Ferdinand Geminian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, p. 74 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Heinrich ReuschWanker, Ferdinand Geminian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 157 f.
  • Hans J. Münk: The Freiburg moral theologian Ferdinand Geminian Wanker (1758-1825) and Immanuel Kant: historical-comparative study taking into account further philosophical-theological ideas of the late Enlightenment . Patmos, Düsseldorf 2006 ( online , PDF file).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Klant: The artist family Knittel . In: Freiburg Biographies , Promo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 978-3-923288-33-5 , p. 175.