Franz Anton von Scharpff

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Franz Anton von Scharpff (born June 20, 1809 in Ansbach , † February 5, 1879 in Rottenburg am Neckar ) was a Catholic theologian .

Life

He found his actual hometown in Ellwangen , where his father moved as a civil servant, where he also attended grammar school. He studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen and was ordained a priest in Rottenburg in 1833 . From 1834 on he worked as a high school teacher in Ellwangen and Rottweil and in 1843 followed a call to Giessen as professor of church history . After the disconnection of the Catholic theological faculty in Giessen brought about by the church conditions in the diocese of Mainz , von Scharpff decided to return to his home diocese in Württemberg. After an attempt by the Bishop of Rottenburg Josef von Lipp to recommend him for a history professorship at the University of Tübingen failed, he switched to pastoral care and worked as a pastor in Mengen from 1852. From 1861 he moved to the parish of Nendingen a . D. , but was elected cathedral capitular in Rottenburg in 1862 , where he died on February 5, 1879.

Works

Von Scharpff began his literary work with a study of "The Church and Literary Work of Nikolaus von Cusa " in the Tübingen quarterly publication in 1837, which from then on became, so to speak, the scientific problem of his life, without a conclusive and exhaustive presentation would. It appeared "Nikolaus von Cusa, der Kardinalbishop: The church work of Nikolaus' von Cusa", Mainz 1848; "The most important writings of the Bishop and Cardinal Nikolaus von Cusa in German translation", Freiburg 1862; "Nikolaus von Cusa as a reformer in the church, empire and philosophy of the 15th century", Tübingen 1871. The other writings - with the exception of a high school program "Representation of the political and religious views of Tacitus ", Rottweil 1848 - are primarily the discussion of church- dedicated to political issues of the day; "Catholicism and the believers in thinking, with regard to two writings of the Grand Ducal Court Judge - The State and the Ultramontanes" and "Another view of the latest church events", Tübingen 1845; “Preliminary lectures on the latest church history”, 2 booklets, Freiburg 1850 and 1852; “The emergence of the Papal States, presented in a pragmatic way”, Freiburg 1860.

After the outbreak of the Kulturkampf and the publication of the May Laws in Prussia , von Scharpff published under the name Vincentius Sincerus “Reverent introduction and request to the most honorable episcopate in Prussia. A word for understanding ”, Munich 1874. This text, which incidentally was not only addressed to the bishops, but also to the emperor and Prince Bismarck and which was included in the index as soon as it was published, testified that its author was more than everything for a politician was if he could believe that in the first glowing heat of the struggle that had flared up between two world powers , such a naively expressed mediation proposal would find acceptance. His commitment to a policy of reconciliation between church and state based on respect, mutual rights and claims was not entirely rejected, at least because of the later outcome of the struggle. Other literary works to be mentioned are: "Handbuch der Christian Religion", Giessen 1847; "The Catholic Faith and the Basics of a History and Theory of Revelation", Gießen, 2nd edition 1853. Finally, after a heavy visitation and prolonged involuntary leisure, von Scharpff wrote a "Catholic Prayer and Contemplation Book" as the last fruit of his multifaceted spiritual religious activity. , Freiburg 1876.

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SURNAME Scharpff, Franz Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1879
Place of death Rottenburg am Neckar