Giovanni Perrone

Giovanni Perrone SJ (born March 11, 1794 in Chieri ( Piedmont ), † August 28, 1876 in Castelgandolfo ) was a Roman Catholic theologian, Jesuit and dogmatist.

Giovanni Perrone studied theology in Turin and went to Rome in 1815 , where he joined the Society of Jesus . In 1816 he was appointed professor of theology in Orvieto and in 1823 at the Collegium Romanum . In 1830 he was rector of the Jesuit college in Ferrara , in 1833 professor of dogmatics, in 1853 rector at the Collegium Romanum and in 1873 head of the Gregorian University in Rome.

Among other things, he has made himself known through some works that have been translated into many European languages.

Works (selection)

Praelectiones theologicae, quas in Collegio Romano SJ habebat Joannes Perrone . Rome 1825 ff., 9 vol .; 31st edition, Turin. 1866; Regensburg 1881, 2 vol.
On the history of Hermesianism . Regensburg: Manz 1839
About the mixed marriages . Translated by Josef Maria Axinger. Augsburg: Kollmann 1840
De immaculato bv Mariae conceptu an dogmatico decreto definiri . Rome 1847
- English: Can the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary be dogmatically defined? From the Latin by Dr. Aegid Dietl & Bern. Schels. Regensburg: Manz 1849
- German, 2nd edition: Treatise on the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Regensburg: Manz 1855
Il protestantismo e la regola di fede . Rome 1853
- German: Protestantism and the rule of faith . Regensburg: Manz, 1857 (2nd edition)
Compendium of Catholic dogmatics for use by theologians and educated lay people . Landshut: Krüll [u. a.] n.d.
De Romani pontificis infallibilitate seu Vaticana definitio contra novos haereticos / asserta et vindicata auctore Joanne Perrone . Turin 1874

literature

Johann Engelbert Reber: Anti-Perrone, or justification of the archbishop's Clerikal seminar in Cologne against the accusations of Father Perrone in Rome and his defender. In addition to a postscript to Dr. Benkert zu Würzburg . Cologne: Eisen 1840
Catholic and Protestant tolerance or the Jesuit Perrone etc. his accusers . Berlin: Germania 1892
G. Catalino Arévalo: Some aspects of the theology of the mystical body of Christ in the ecclesiology of Giovanni Perrone, Carlo Passengerla and Clemens Schrader . Rome 1959
Peter Walter: The question of the justification of faith from inner experience at Vatican I: the position of the council against the background of contemporary Roman theology . Mainz: Matthias Grünewald Verlag 1980
Walter Kasper: The doctrine of tradition in the Roman school: Giovanni Perrone, Carlo Passasslia, Clemens Schrader . Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.]: Herd, 1962

biography

Erich Naab: Perrone, Giovanni. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 227-229. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Works by and about Giovanni Perrone in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Perrone, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dogmatic
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chieri
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1876
Place of death	Castelgandolfo