Jakob Anton von Zallinger zum Thurn

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Jakob Anton von Zallinger zum Thurn (born July 26, 1735 in Oberbozen , † January 16, 1813 in Bozen ) was a canon lawyer and philosopher .

Life

Institutiones iuris naturalis et ecclesiastici publici , 1784

Zallinger was born in 1735 as the son of a large Bolzano patrician family in the Oberbozen summer resort . He finished high school and then began studying philosophy in Innsbruck for a year. In 1753 he entered the Jesuit order at the age of 18 . In 1765 he was after the usual in religious education in philosophy and theology at the University of Ingolstadt for priests ordained. Six years later, in 1771, he took the perpetual religious vows. His two brothers Johann Baptist and Franz also entered the Jesuit order.

Zallinger worked 1766/1767 as a high school teacher in Trient and from 1767 to 1770 as a teacher at the Lyceum in Munich . In 1770 he was finally transferred to the Jesuit College in Dillingen . There he received his licentiate and master's degree in philosophy that same year, and three years later he was to achieve theological degrees. After the order was dissolved in 1773, he went back to Innsbruck as a pensioner to teach physics there.

In 1777 he was appointed professor for canon law at the Jesuit College St. Salvator in Augsburg - there he lectured for 30 years until 1807. In 1786 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Dillingen .

In 1805/1806 he worked as an advisor for German affairs to Pope Pius VII in Rome. In 1807 - after the dissolution of the St. Salvator College - he retired to his relatives in Bolzano.

From 1769 Jakob Anton von Zallinger published various writings. First he devoted himself to natural philosophy based on Isaac Newton , whose teaching he continued. He defended conventional metaphysics against Immanuel Kant .

Fonts

Institutiones juris ecclesiastici (1792)
  • Interpretatio naturae seu Philosophia Newtoniana Methodo exposita et academicis usibus accommodata , 3 vol., 1773–1775
  • Institutiones iuris naturalis et ecclesiastici publici ( la ), 5 vols. Edition, Matthaeus Rieger, Sohne, Augsburg 1784.
  • Institutiones juris ecclesiastici maxime privati , 5 vols., 1792/93

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SURNAME Zallinger zum Thurn, Jakob Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurm von Zallinger, Jakob Anton zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, canon lawyer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberbozen
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1813
Place of death Bolzano