Joachim Sighart

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Joachim Maria Sighart (born January 16, 1824 in Altötting , † December 20, 1867 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , philosopher and art historian .

Life

Sighart was born in Altötting in the old Gothic Neukolberg Castle as the youngest child of the nine-member family of the married couple Joseph and Anna Sighart. The parents were originally well off, but had lost part of their wealth in the turmoil of the Wars of Liberation . When his father, who owned a small estate to which the castle belonged, died in 1825, Joachim's mother was forced to look after the family on her own. She moved to Munich with her children in 1833. Sighart attended Latin school there . Because of his excellent performance, he was then given a free place at the Royal College in Neuburg an der Donau . From 1841 he studied theology, philosophy and classical philology at the University of Munich . In 1845 he received his doctorate in philosophy . During his studies he helped to support the family by giving private tuition. In 1846 he was ordained a priest. He was initially given an auxiliary position in the parish of Trostberg . In 1847 he was appointed as a teacher at the Royal Bavarian Lyceum in Freising . In 1850 he was appointed professor of philosophy. He taught logic , metaphysics , psychology and the history of philosophy; He also gave lectures on aesthetics and general art history , which in the following years developed into his favorite subject. In Freising he founded the Diocesan Art Association in Freising in 1857 . As its director, he supported the establishment of the Munich Association for Christian Art in 1860 . In 1862 and 1863, at the instigation and with the support of King Maximilian II , he wrote the two-volume “History of the Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Bavaria from the Beginnings to the Present”, with which he acquired a lasting memory. Probably for this reason he was elected as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1863 , and in 1866 he was appointed to the Munich cathedral chapter .

Sighart wrote numerous writings. His over 380 page treatise on Albertus Magnus from 1857 was published ten years later in London in English translation under the title: Albert the Great. His Life and Scholastic Labor. From Original Documents . Reprints of his works are now available from book-on-demand publishers.

Sighart died of heart failure in Munich in 1867, a few weeks before he was 44, and was buried in the Altes Südfriedhof . In the Neustift district of Freising , a street is named after im .

Works (selection)

  • Freising Cathedral. An art historical monograph with artistic supplements . Landshut 1852 ( e-copy ).
  • Preface to the book Theologia naturalis by Raimundus de Sabunde , 1852, pp. III – VIII.
  • The Frauenkirche in Munich. Your story and description, initially designed from an art historical point of view . Landshut 1853 ( e-copy ).
  • Medieval art in the Archdiocese of Munich Freising is represented in its monuments . Freising 1855 ( e-copy ).
  • Albertus Magnus . His life and his science. Depicted according to the sources . Regensburg 1857 ( e-copy ), ( digitized version )
  • From Munich to Landshut . A little railway book. Landshut 1869 ( e-copy ).
  • Dr. Friedrich Windischmann . A picture of life . Augsburg 1861 ( e-copy ).
  • History of the fine arts in the Kingdom of Bavaria from the beginning to the present . 2 volumes, Munich 1862 and 1863 ( e-copy ).
  • A wax tablet book from Polling Monastery . In: Treatises of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences , III. Cl., Volume 9, II. Abth., Munich 1864, pp. 343-356.
  • Relics from Rome. On art history and folklore . Augsburg 1865 ( e-copy ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Probably at Freisinger Seminary , which in 1826 by King Ludwig I. was built. As a teacher at the Lyceum, he would hardly have been appointed as an academician. The information in ADB (Clericalseminar) and NDB (lecturer in the Freising Seminar and representative of the philosophy professorship at the Royal Lyceum) are contradicting this.
  2. ^ BAdW obituary by Ignaz Döllinger .
  3. ↑ Member of the BAdW
personal data
SURNAME Sighart, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sighart, Joachim Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, art historian and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1867
Place of death Munich