Ferdinand Ignaz Herbst

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Ferdinand Ignaz Herbst , until December 1832 Ferdinand Herbst , (born December 20, 1798 in Meuselwitz , † May 11, 1863 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and clergyman .

Life

Born as the son of a clothing manufacturer, from 1813 onwards, he attended Altenburg high school . There he met Karl Hase , with whom he should initially share his further training path. After graduating from high school in 1818, he studied philology , theology and philosophy at the universities of Jena , Leipzig and Erlangen . This study time was very much shaped by the enthusiasm shared with Hase for the fraternity and the commitment in these circles. In 1818 he became a member of the old Leipzig fraternity and in 1818/19 a member of the original fraternity in Jena. In 1821, after their arrest, Hase and Herbst were expelled from the University of Leipzig. They turned to Erlangen. It was there that Herbst wrote his defense of the ideals and errors of academic life in our time, or the open covenant for the highest in human life .

Autumn was after graduation, first in 1824 Hofmeister in Augsburg , but shortly afterwards because of his membership in the youth Bund arrested and after Sachsen-Altenburg delivered. After his release in 1826, he began to expand his literary activity and wrote, among other things, the novel The Friends of Youngsters and began work on the library of Christian thinkers series . He also went to the University of Munich to continue studying with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , whom he had already met in Erlangen.

Herbst converted to the Catholic faith on December 2, 1832 and entered the Freising seminary . In August 1834 he was ordained a priest . First he became a professor of philosophy at the local lyceum , but then decided to want to work in pastoral care . However, he retained his literary activity. Herbst was assistant chaplain at St Johann in Munich in 1837 , then chaplain at the Trinity Church in Munich and in 1838 vicar choir at St. Kajetan . In addition, from 1840 he was school councilor for Upper Bavaria . In 1842 he became pastor in Giesing , in 1848 finally pastor of the Mariahilfkirche in Munich-Au .

Publications (selection)

  • Ideals and errors of academic life in our time, or the open alliance for the highest in human life: first of all for the German student youth , Metzler, Stuttgart 1823.
  • Series Library of Christian thinkers
    • Volume 1: Johann Georg Hammann, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , Leipzig 1830.
    • Volume 2: Johann Kaspar Lavater after his life, teaching and work , Dollfuss, Ansbach 1832.
  • The priesthood. 1st volume: Conversations about Christian love , Krüll, Landshut 1834.
  • Catholic book of examples or the teaching of the church in examples from the history of the kingdom of God on earth and its contrasts in world and human history , 2 volumes, Manz, Regensburg 1839.
  • From the life of a priest , Kollmann, Augsburg 1842.
  • Spiritual writings , 2 volumes, 1843–1844.
  • Robinson the Younger , 2nd edition, Rieger, Augsburg 1861.

literature

  • Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Autumn, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 48-50.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 303-304.
  • Karl Goedeke / Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. Volume 10: From World Peace to the French Revolution of 1830: Poetry of General Education. Eighth book, section III, unaltered reprint, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 405f.
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 158.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ He used the name Ignaz only after converting to the Catholic faith (see ADB). This became his nickname (see Goedeke / Goetze)
  2. ↑ Which St. Johann does not emerge from the sources.
personal data
SURNAME Herbst, Ferdinand Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herbst, Ferdinand; Herbst, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1863
Place of death Munich