Franz Xaver Gmeiner

Portrait from before 1825

Franz Xaver Gmeiner (born January 6, 1752 in Studenitz near Windischfeistritz , † March 27, 1828 in Graz ) was an Austrian philosopher , theologian , church historian and canon lawyer .

Life

Gmeiner attended the high school in Maribor , then switched to the high school in Graz . He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Graz and obtained the degree of Dr. phil. His ordination took place in 1774, 1775 Promotion to Dr. theol. After a time as an associate professor , he became a full professor of church history.

Gmeiner was rector of the university in the academic year 1791/1792 , then president of the study conscience for ten years and then director of the philosophical studies from 1802 and 1816. On December 6, 1816, he was appointed imperial council . He then retired in 1822 .

Gmeiner was a follower of Josephinism .

Gmeiner's work Epitome historiae ecclesiasticae NT in usum praelectionum academicarum , published in Graz in 1787, was indexed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1827 .

Works (selection)

The special canon law: according to the principles of natural law, the doctrine of reason and constitutional law , Lechner, Frankfurt am Main 1781.
Historical-critical examination of the Porciuncula indulgence , Vienna 1781 (anonymous).
Proof that the religious vows of those orders, which the sovereign no longer wants to tolerate in his states, lose their binding force without prior dispensation , Graz and Vienna 1782. Digitized
Institutiones Iuris Ecclesiastici , 3 volumes, Weingand and Ferstl, Vienna and Graz 1782.
Epitome historiae ecclesiasticae N [ovi] T [estamenti]: in usum praelectionum academicarum. - Verlag Weingand and Ferstl, Graz, Volume 1: Complectens duas epochas priores. , Volume 2. Complectens Duas Epochas Posteriores. ("Summary New Testament Church History for Use in Preparation for Lectures")
Instructions for general canon law , Wolff, Augsburg 1789.
Canon Law , 2 volumes, Zaunrith, Graz 1790th
Theologia dogmatica in systema redacta et methodo scientifica proposita , 2 volumes, Ferstl, Graz 1807.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Gmeiner, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 233 f. ( Digitized version ).
Johann Friedrich von Schulte : Gmeiner, Franz Xaver . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 264.
Gmeiner, Franz X .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975,ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 13.
Gmeiner, Franz Xaver , in: Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn (Ed.): The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers , Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 9781474256001 , p. 268 f.

Web links

Works by and about Franz Xaver Gmeiner in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, page 391, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 (French, digitized )

personal data
SURNAME	Gmeiner, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gmeiner, Franz X.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Catholic theologian, philosopher church historian and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH	Studenitz near Windischfeistritz
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1828
Place of death	Graz

[1] Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, page 391, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 (French, digitized )