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Ildephons Schwarz (actually: Carl Joseph Schwarz ; born November 4, 1752 in Bamberg , † June 19, 1794 in Banz Monastery ) was a German Catholic theologian.

Life

The son of the professor of medicine Christian Wilhelm Schwarz († 1767) and his wife (née Bauer von Heppenstein) attended the grammar school in his hometown at the age of twelve and the Benedictine monastery of Banz at the age of sixteen. In 1769 he entered the Benedictine order there , received the order name Ildephons and in 1770 took the religious vows. He then undertook philosophical and theological studies.

He completed his studies under the direction of Columban Rösser (1736-1780) and Johann Philipp Placidus Sprenger (1735-1806), where he also dealt with mathematics and law. In 1779 he became professor of philosophy and mathematics, later the theology and librarian of the convent school. He declined further appointments. Schwarz was a critical exponent of the Enlightenment, whose most important work was the Handbuch der Religionen.

Works

• Rev. Alexandri Geddes, LL. D. de vulgarium Sacrae Scripturae versionum vitiis eorumque remediis Libellus. Ex Anglico vertit et notas quasdam adjecit Presbyter et Monarchus Ordinis S. Benedicti. Bamberg 1787
• Speech at the funeral of Mr. Johann Nepomuck, Abbot of Langheim Monastery, held on May 11, 1791. Bamberg 1791
• Reflections on Some of the Most Important Practical Truths of the Christian Religion. Bamberg and Würzburg 1793
• Handbook of the Christian Religion. Bamberg and Würzburg 1793–1794, 3 volumes.
• James Archer's sermons; translated from English. 1st volume, Bamberg 1795
• Antonii Genuensis, in regia Neapolitana Academia olim Philosophiae Professoris, Elementum artis logico-criticae Libri V. De novo edidit plurimisque in locis auxit. Aug. Vind. 1796
• Instructions for the knowledge of those books which are essentially necessary and useful to the candidates of theology, the city and country preachers, vicars, etc. in the Catholic Church. 1st volume, Coburg 1803; 2nd volume, Coburg 1804

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1812, Volume 12, p. 620 ( online )
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching: Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig, 1808, Volume 11, p. 393 ( online )
• Othmar Frank: In memory of Ildephons Schwarz, Benedictine librarian, and professor of philosophy, mathematics and theology at the Banz Abbey. Publishing house Tobias Goebhardt, Bamberg and Würzburg, 1795 ( online )
• Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, Volume 4, p. 104 ( online )
• Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog on the year 1794. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1796, 5th year, 1st volume, p. 317 ( online )
• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Black, Ildephons . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 238 f.