Johann Aufhauser

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Johann Baptist Aufhauser (born September 7, 1881 in Moosham , Regensburg district; † August 8, 1963 in Oelberg , Bavarian Forest) was a German Catholic theologian and religious historian .

Career

Johann Baptist Aufhauser was born as the son of the farmer Johann Aufhauser and his wife Anna nee Gerl. He studied in Innsbruck and Munich and received his doctorate in the subjects of theology (1908) and philosophy (1910). After habilitation in church history in Munich in 1911, he was initially a private lecturer there, and from 1911 until the National Socialists closed the faculty in 1939, he was associate professor of missiology. From 1939 until his retirement on April 30, 1947, he taught theological encyclopedia and history of religion at the theological faculty of the University of Würzburg . In 1949 he was given a teaching position in the history of religion with a special focus on East Asia in Munich.

literature

  • Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia. - Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999

Individual evidence

  1. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 8 and 16 (1948 still registered as chairman of the missiology seminar).