Franz Lakner

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Franz Lakner (born April 27, 1900 in Ormož , today Slovenia ; † June 7, 1974 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian theologian and Jesuit . From 1962 to 1970 he was a full professor of dogmatics at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Franz Lakner was born in 1900 as the son of the tax collector and landowner of the same name in Friedau an der Drau , Pettau district in what is now northeastern Slovenia, then part of southern Styria. His mother was Amalie Lesiak.

After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy in Graz and Innsbruck . In Innsbruck he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck since 1919 , then in the CV, today in the ÖCV. In 1922 he entered the Jesuit novitiate in St. Andrä in Lavanttal . After ordination in 1929 he was in 1932 with a dissertation on Joseph Kleutgen doctorate . He completed his habilitation in 1933 on the philosopher Anton Günther , whose work in the 19th century under Pope Pius IX. was highly controversial in the Catholic Church and, at the instigation of Josef Kleutgen, was placed on the index of forbidden books in 1857 .

1936–38, Franz Lakner taught dogmatics as a private lecturer in Innsbruck. As a result of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , the Catholic theological faculty in Innsbruck was officially dissolved in July 1938. In November 1938 the Canisianum Jesuit College was also closed. Lakner moved to Sion in Switzerland and continued the work of the faculty and the Jesuit college in exile. After the war ended in 1945, both the Catholic Theological Faculty and the Canisianum were rebuilt. Lakner became Regens of the Canisianum and held this office until 1949. From 1946 he taught dogmatics again in Innsbruck. In 1948 he became an associate professor, in 1962 he became a full professor alongside Karl Rahner . In the same year he was elected dean of his faculty and remained so until his election as rector of the University of Innsbruck in the academic year 1964/65. Pope Paul VI appointed him a member of the International Theological Commission in 1970, the year he retired from the university .

Franz Lakner died in 1974 and was buried in the crypt of the Jesuit church in Innsbruck.

Fonts (selection)

  • The central object of theology on the question of the existence and shape of a pastoral theology , Innsbruck 1938, OCLC 1068231490 .
  • Handbook for the monthly renewal of the mind. Importance and practice. Priests, theologians, etc. Offered to religious , Friborg 1946, OCLC 72165758 .
  • Dogmatic theology at the University of Innsbruck . Journal for Catholic Theology, 80, 1, Hundred Years of Theological Faculty Innsbruck 1857-1957 , pp. 101-141, 1958.
  • The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , Innsbruck 1960, OCLC 35244533 .
  • The significance of the Eastern Church studies for today's theology. Inaugural address given on the occasion of the inauguration in the Kaiser-Leopold-Saal of the Old University of Innsbruck on November 20, 1965 , Innsbruck 1965, OCLC 74688281 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Schatz :  Lakner, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 424 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Franz Lakner: The importance of the Eastern Church studies for today's theology. Inaugural address given on the occasion of the inauguration in the Kaiser-Leopold-Saal of the Old University of Innsbruck on November 20, 1965 , Innsbruck 1965, OCLC 74688281
personal data
SURNAME Lakner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Ormož
DATE OF DEATH June 7th 1974
Place of death innsbruck