Franz Martin Schindler

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Memorial plaque in the University of Vienna

Franz Martin Schindler (born January 21, 1847 in Motzdorf , † October 27, 1922 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, moral theologian , canon lawyer and politician .

Life

Schindler was the son of a farmer, the moral theologian Josef Schindler (1854–1900) was his brother. Franz Martin Schindler spent his high school in Mariaschein and Brüx , in 1865 he entered the seminary of the diocese of Leitmeritz and began to study philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest in 1869 and was a pastor in Bohemia until 1874. He continued his studies at the Imperial and Royal Higher Priestly Education Institute Frintaneum in Vienna. As a doctor of theology he was chaplain in Schönlinde from 1877 to 1878 and as a supplement (assistant teacher) for moral theology in Leitmeritz . From 1879 he worked as a moral theologian, from 1884 as a canon lawyer at the University of Vienna and from 1888 to 1917 as a full professor of moral theology.

With Karl von Vogelsang , Aloys von Liechtenstein and Karl Lueger he prepared the 2nd Austrian Catholic Day (1889). From this the “ duck evenings ” developed, named after regular discussion groups in the hotel “Zur Goldenen Ente”. From these conversations he wrote the program of the “ Christian Social Movement ”, which owes its later spiritual orientation to him. From 1911 to 1920 he was chairman of the Catholic press association " Herold ".

Schindler was a member of the manor house from 1907 to 1918 and a consultant for church affairs in the Ministry of Education from 1918 to 1922 .

Pope Leo XIII. accepted his defense against suspicions of the movement. In this way he was able to give the party and its members important impulses. Together with others he founded the Reichspost (1894–1938) as the press organ of the Christian social movement.

The statesman and historian Joseph Alexander von Helfert (1820–1910) founded with him in 1882 the after Pope Leo XIII. named Leo Society , which Schindler chaired from 1892 to 1913 as general secretary. It existed until 1938 as an association of scholars to “cultivate science and art in the Christian spirit”.

After his death, Schindler was buried in the Hetzendorfer Friedhof (group 7, number 87) in Vienna, where he was given an honorary grave . In the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna there is a memorial plaque with a portrait relief of him.

Works

  • The social question of the present from the standpoint of Christianity , Vienna 1905, 1908
  • Textbook of Catholic Moral Theology, 3 vols. , Vienna 1907, 1913–1914

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SURNAME Schindler, Franz Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, moral theologian, canon lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Motzdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1922
Place of death Vienna