Johann Nepomuk Mederer

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Johann Nepomuk Mederer, after a painting by Gottfried Valentin Mansinger

Johann Nepomuk Mederer (also Johann Nep. Mederer ; born June 2, 1734 in Stöckelsberg , † May 13, 1808 in Ingolstadt ) was a German Jesuit , historian and university professor .

Life

Mederer was the son of a farmer and came from a simple background. He attended the Gnadenberg village school until he was eleven . The local chaplain Johann Baptist Gerner was sure of the boy's abilities and, after persuading his parents, gave him lessons in Latin. In 1745 he was so well educated that he was accepted at the Amberg grammar school . He stayed there for seven years. He decided to join the Jesuit order and was accepted into the novitiate on September 14, 1753 at the Jesuit college in Landsberg am Lech . After the probationary years in the order, he became a high school teacher for the humaniora at the Jesuit college in Ingolstadt in 1755 . In 1757 he moved to the Jesuit College in Landshut in the same position .

Mederer was allowed to study theology and church history at the University of Ingolstadt in 1760 . At the same time he was given responsibility for the library of the Jesuit college there. History became his preferred subject during his studies. In 1763 he was ordained a priest. After he had completed his third year of probation in Altötting , four years followed with various changes in his assignment positions. In 1764 he came to the Jesuit college in Kaufbeuren , where he taught grammar in high school classes, in 1765 back to the college in Ingolstadt, where he held the positions of sub- minister , seminar inspector and preacher , in 1766 to the Jesuit college in Straubing , where he taught logic, and finally in 1767 back to the Jesuit College Amberg . There he taught physics at the academic lyceum .

Mederer in the fall of 1768 at the Ingolstadt University for Dr. phil. PhD . At the same time he received a full professorship for history at this university . In 1773 he was appointed a member of the historical class of the Churbair Academy of Sciences on the basis of the text about the oldest history of the city of Eger . This year brought many changes for him. The Jesuit order was abolished in the summer of 1773, Mederer was promoted to Dr. theol. doctorate and received the professorship of church history at the theological faculty. He was also given the task of writing a chronicle for the university. The award of the project to him, however, was not without opposition.

Mederer was unexpectedly withdrawn from the chair in 1774 and was transferred to the academic lyceum in Munich as professor of canon law and church history. He then successfully asserted that he could not edit the chronicle of the University of Ingolstadt due to a lack of sources in Munich. In the autumn of 1775 his request to return to Ingolstadt was granted. There he was employed by the university library in 1776 and again seminar inspector in 1777. In 1780 he got a job as a teacher again as a full professor of fatherland history, diplomatics and numismatics . In 1782 he turned down an appointment as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg , although his pay as an old Jesuit was poor . His financial situation only improved in 1784, when he was given a full chair in patriotic history and historical auxiliary sciences by an electoral cabinet decree, which was expanded to include world history in 1785. He was now also a real spiritual counselor in Kurdistan .

In 1788, Mederer received the parish of St. Moritz in addition to his academic work . In the academic year 1791 he was rector of the university , then vice-chancellor of the university. When the university was moved to Landshut , he decided to stay in the city parish. Before his death, he donated considerable sums to the school and poor fund.

Works (selection)

  • Idea Systematis Historiae Germanicae , Crätz, Ingolstadt 1769.
  • De Garibaldo Duce Baioariae ex Agilolfingis primo dissertatio historica , Lutzenberger, Ingolstadt 1772.
  • Contributions to the history of Baiern , 4 volumes, Monday, Regensburg 1777–1780.
  • Annales Ingolstadiensis Academiae , 4 volumes, Krüll, Ingolstadt 1782.
  • History of the ancient royal Maierhof Ingoldestat, now the royal. Bavarian capital Ingolstadt , Attenkofer, Ingolstadt 1807.

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SURNAME Mederer, Johann Nepomuk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mederer, Johann Nep.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Stöckelsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1808
Place of death Ingolstadt