Franz Josef Waitzenegger

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Memorial plaque of the museum association for Franz Josef Waitzenegger at the parish church of St. Gallus in Bregenz

Franz Josef Waitzenegger (born May 8, 1784 in Bregenz ; † December 7, 1822 there ) was an Austrian Catholic theologian and historian .

Life

From 1795 to 1799 Franz Josef Waitzenegger was his father's assistant, who ran a brickworks. Next he worked as an apprentice to a furrier . From 1802 he studied philosophy at the Benedictine monastery in Mehrerau and in the next semester at the University of Innsbruck . Then he studied theology in Landshut . Franz Waitzenegger was ordained a priest in 1810 . As a priest he worked in various places, most recently in Oberndorf . When he fell ill with a severe fever in 1815 , he could no longer serve as a priest there for a long time. He spent this phase of illness with his sister, who also lived in Bregenz. There he worked as a confessor until the summer of 1816 . Franz Josef Waitzenegger died on December 7th, 1822 at the age of only 38, still in Bregenz.

Works

  • The old mountain castle Bregenz (1820)
  • Lexicon of scholars and writers of the German Catholic clergy (continuation of the work of Franz Karl Felder ; Waitzenegger wrote volumes 2 and 3)
  • Vorarlberg from the papers of priest Franz Josef Waitzenegger, who died in Bregenz (Innsbruck 1839; three volumes; is considered to be the first printed history of Vorarlberg)

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SURNAME Waitzenegger, Franz Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitzenegger, Franz Josef; Weizenegger, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic clergyman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1822
Place of death Bregenz