Friedrich Windischmann

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Friedrich Heinrich Hugo Windischmann (born December 13, 1811 in Aschaffenburg , † August 23, 1861 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian . He was a professor at the University of Munich as well as cathedral capitular and vicar general of the archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Life

Friedrich Windischmann was the son of Professor Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann from Bonn . His mother Anna Maria was a born Pizzala. He attended high school in Bonn, which he left in autumn 1827 after passing high school . In the same year, until 1832, he studied philosophy , classical philology and Sanskrit at the University of Bonn . In addition to his father teaching philosophy, his professors in Bonn included Christian August Brandis , August Ferdinand Naeke , Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker in classical philology, and Christian Lassen and August Wilhelm Schlegel in Sanskrit.

In July 1832 , Windischmann received his doctorate from Bonn University with a dissertation on Indian philosophy under the title Sancara sive de theologumenis Vedanticorum pars prior to the doctorate of philosophy . In the summer of 1832 he began studying theology, first in Bonn and later at the University of Munich . He went to Venice where he stayed with the Mechitharists for a long time . As a result of the turmoil in Cologne , his father was asked by the Vatican to prepare an expert report in which he played a key role. This brought both numerous hostilities and so Friedrich Windischmann decided to move permanently to Munich after a request from the Archbishop of Munich-Freising Lothar Anselm von Gebsattel . At the Munich University he received his doctorate in January 1836 with the thesis Vindiciae Petrinae to the doctor of theology .

Windischmann was ordained a priest on March 13, 1836 and was able to celebrate his first mass in the Frauenkirche in Munich just four weeks later . Ignaz von Döllinger gave the festive sermon . On this occasion, Clemens Brentano dedicated a congratulatory poem to the young priest with the title The Bridegroom . When the archbishop's wish to hire him at the Lyceum in Freising did not materialize, Windischmann completed his habilitation in 1836 at the theological faculty of the University of Munich. After the death of Johann Adam Möhler he was appointed cathedral vicar and archiepiscopal secretary. In April 1838 he took on an extraordinary professorship in New Testament exegesis and canon law at Munich University. In the same year he was awarded the Indigenous School of the Kingdom of Bavaria . But in the autumn of 1839, with his appointment as cathedral chapter in the metropolitan chapter , he had to end his academic career. On August 25, 1842 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In 1846 he held for Pope Gregory XVI. a funeral oration in the Frauenkirche in Munich and on October 7th of the same year the new Archbishop Karl August von Reisach elected him as his vicar general. As such, he accompanied the Archbishop to Rome in 1854 to redefine the dogma of the immaculate conception . When Reisach later permanently moved to Rome, Windischmann resigned on August 27, 1856 to the position of simple cathedral capitular. Frequent illnesses, which could be traced back to a surviving nerve fever , disturbed his last years of life. He could no longer answer the call to Rome to join the newly founded Congregation for the Affairs of the United Eastern Churches. Friedrich Windischmann died on August 23, 1861, at the age of 49, in Munich.

Publications (selection)

  • Sancara sive de theologumenis Vedanticorum pars Prior. ( Dissertation ), Bonn 1832. ( digitized )
  • Vindiciae Petrinae. (Dissertation), Regensburg 1836. ( digitized )
  • About the Acta Romana. Munich 1838. ( digitized )
  • Explanation of the letter to the Galatians. Mainz 1843. ( digitized )
  • Of the?? Progress in linguistics and its present task. Speech to celebrate Ludwigtag. Munich 1844. ( digitized )
  • About the Somacultus of the Aryans. Munich 1846. ( digitized )
  • The?? Basis of Armenian in the Aryan language tribe. Munich 1846. ( digitized )
  • Ancient legends of the Aryan peoples. Munich 1852. ( digitized )
  • ??The?? Persian Anahita or Anaïtis. A contribution to the myth history of the Orient. Munich 1856. ( digitized )
  • Mithra. A contribution to the myth history of the Orient. Leipzig 1857. ( digitized )
  • Zoroastrian Studies. Treatises on the mythology and legends of ancient Iran. Berlin 1863. ( digitized )

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SURNAME Windischmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windischmann, Friedrich Heinrich Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, vicar general and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1861
Place of death Munich