Ignaz Windisch

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Gravestone of the Jesuit father and pastor Ignaz Windisch in Deidesheim
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Ignaz Windisch , also Ignatius Windisch (born April 5, 1736 in Würzburg , † May 10, 1783 in Deidesheim ) was a Jesuit and full professor of philosophy at the University of Bamberg .

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Ignaz Windisch came from Würzburg and attended the university there . As early as 1752 he was defending theses in logic and metaphysics here on the occasion of a dissertation . It is therefore questionable whether the year of birth stated on his tombstone is correct.

He entered the Jesuit order, became a priest and received his doctorate on August 30, 1765, under Professor Peter Gallade , at the University of Heidelberg , in canon law . He was sent as a missionary to Mexico, where, after the so-called Madrid hat revolt of 1766, by decree of June 1767, all Jesuits were expelled.

When he returned, he served as professor of philosophy at the University of Bamberg from 1769 to 1771 . Here he taught as a master's degree in logic, metaphysics, physics and ethics.

On August 21, 1773 Pope Clement XIV abolished the Jesuit order with the bull Dominus ac redemptor noster . Then the now ex-Jesuit Ignaz Windisch worked as cathedral preacher in Mainz . He later worked in the same capacity at the Speyer Cathedral . Here in the Diocese of Speyer he finally took over the office of pastor of Deidesheim, which he held until his death in 1783. In the year he died, he applied to the ordinariate that the ossuary there next to the church should be freed of the centuries-old bones for health reasons and that the building be used for church purposes. That is the only reason why it has probably survived to this day and is now used as a prayer room.

The parish of Deidesheim had a high-quality tombstone made for the priest, which is now placed on the south side of the St. Ulrichs Church opposite the ossuary. It is then characterized as follows:

“ He was a true apostle; pure, convincing, moving in preaching; with the sick, untiring, untiring, comforting; a free father to the poor; the love of his parish alone everything "

- Gravestone inscription in Deidesheim

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Adam Brein: Würzburger Hochschulschriften 1581–1803: Inventory. Volume 1 of: Collections of valuable prints in the Würzburg University Library. Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-923959-20-6 , p. 99. (detail scan )
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Gallade, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 318.
  3. ^ Title page of the inaugural dissertation from 1765
  4. ↑ Bernd Hausberger: Jesuits from Central Europe in colonial Mexico: a bio-bibliography. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1995, ISBN 3-486-56151-0 , p. 122. (detail scan)
  5. ↑ Bernhard Schemmel: The graphical thesis and doctoral sheets in Bamberg. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04001-7 , p. 168. (digital scan)
  6. ↑ Bonaventure von Mehr: The Preaching in the Cologne and Rhenish Capuchin Province in the 17th and 18th centuries. Instituto Storico dei Fr. Min. Cappuccini, 1945, p. 213. (detail scan)
  7. ↑ Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , Volume 3, Part 2, p. 162. (detail scan)
  8. ↑ Parish Church St. Ulrich Deidesheim, Festschrift for the consecration of the altar in 1987. Kath. Pfarramt Deidesheim, 1987, p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Windisch, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windisch, Ignatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, missionary, university professor in Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1783
Place of death Deidesheim