Franz Xaver Holl

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Franz Xaver Holl (born November 22, 1720 in Schwandorf ; † March 6, 1784 in Heidelberg ) was a Jesuit and full professor of canon law at the University of Innsbruck and Heidelberg University .

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Franz Xaver Holl was born in Schwandorf as the son of the Syndic Jacob Holl, baptized Wolfgang Franz de Paula and attended the local Latin school. He joined the Jesuit order in 1739, then called himself Franz Xaver and worked from 1753–1754 as a professor of philosophy at the Jesuit college in Amberg . Then he did his doctorate iuris utriusque (both rights). He taught canon law in Rottweil and Regensburg , from 1760 to 1769 at the University of Innsbruck . In 1773 the Jesuit order was abolished and Holl went to the Lyceum in Neuburg an der Donau as a teacher . He was called to the University of Heidelberg in 1775 as a secular priest . Here he taught as a professor of canon law until his death.

Holl wrote several theological books and published the first volume of the unfinished work “Statistica ecclesiae Germanicae” in Heidelberg in 1779/80 , in which he attempted an external description of the church conditions in Germany and gathered a large amount of data. In 1788 it appeared again posthumously in Mannheim . In the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie it says about it: “After the present achievement it is to be regretted that it remained unfinished; Holl already shows that scientific sense which considers a comprehensive understanding of the relationship to education to be necessary. "

Franz Xaver Holl died in Heidelberg in 1784 and was buried in the crypt of the Jesuit Church in Heidelberg , where his simple grave with an epitaph has been preserved.

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  1. ↑ PDF document of the city of Schwandorf, p. 44
  2. ↑ Manfred Brandl: The German Catholic Theologians of Modern Times , Volume 2, p. 111, 1978, ISBN 3853760112 ; (Detail scan)
  3. ^ The register of the University of Innsbruck , Volume 1, p. CIII, Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1952
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Schulte: The history of the sources and literature of canon law from Gratian to the present , Volume 3, p. 229, 1880; (Detail scan)
  5. ↑ Christoph Weidlich: Biographical news from the now-living legal scholars in Germany , Volume 4, p. 136, 1785; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Zeitschrift für Baiern and the neighboring countries , 6th issue, June 1816, p. 357; (Digital scan)
  7. ^ Die Matrikel der Universität Heidelberg , Volume 4, P. 282, Heidelberg 1903; (Detail scan)
  8. ↑ Digital edition of the 1st volume
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SURNAME Holl, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, theologian, university professor in Innsbruck and Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwandorf
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1784
Place of death Heidelberg