Hermann Goldhagen

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Hermann Goldhagen (born April 14, 1718 in Mainz , † April 22, 1794 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor .

Life

Goldhagen was the son of a Mainz businessman . He entered 1735 in the Jesuit order , and taught from 1746 to 1756 at the Jesuit colleges of Mannheim and Mainz the humanities . He was a doctor of theology and a clergyman of the Palatinate . From 1756 to 1764 he was professor of exegesis at the University of Mainz . He distinguished himself as a conservative theologian, enjoyed popularity with the government of Kurmainz and in 1766 became provincial and later head of the novitiate . He held the latter office when the order was abolished.

Goldhagen remained in Mainz even after the Jesuit order was abolished and was still considered an influential theologian there. With his religious journal , which he published from 1776 to 1785, he was a key player in the anti-Enlightenment movement in Mainz. He was one of Johannes Lorenz Isenbiehl's strongest opponents . In 1792 he moved to his brother in Munich. There he was appointed to an electoral Bavarian council.

Works (selection)

  • Rhetorica explicata et applicata ad eloquentiam civil. et eccles , Mannheim 1760.
  • Introductio In Sacram Scripturam Veteris Ac Novi Testamenti , 3 volumes, Häffner, Mainz 1765–1768.
  • Basic teachings of Christianity , Wailandt, Mainz 1771.
  • Religious journal , 10 volumes of 10 issues each, Mainz 1776–1785.

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