Josef Anton Sauter

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Josef Anton Sauter (* 1742 in Riedlingen ; † April 6, 1817 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was professor of church and criminal law at the University of Freiburg.

After the University of Freiburg had resisted the Josephine reforms for years, Hermann von Greiffenegg, as imperial plenipotentiary , imposed a new consistorial constitution on the university on March 31, 1767. But the professorships remained conservative and were not cooperative in implementing the reforms. The government in Vienna sent Josef Anton Sauter to Freiburg as university secretary, who took office on July 29, 1773.

With the abolition of the order on August 21, 1773, the professorships filled with Jesuits became vacant. On November 1, 1773, Sauter took over the chair for logic and metaphysics from the Jesuit Philipp Steinmeyer, including his salary. From 1799 to 1800 Sauter was dean of the philosophical faculty.

When the professor of canon law Joseph Anton Petzek left the city for Vienna in 1799 because of the French moving into Freiburg, Sauter took over his position, which also included the office of court counselor at the court of appeal. Sauter's main scientific work is the Fundamenta iuris ecclesiastici catholicorum , which appeared in five parts in Freiburg between 1801 and 1816.

The new government of the Breisgau under the administrator Ferdinand Karl of the Duke Hercules III. of Modena was Sauter not acceptable, especially because of his previous involvement in that of Johann Kaspar Ruef magazine published The Freymüthige . Sauter had published his articles under the pseudonym Zeno eleaticus under the Habsburg rule , but now in 1803, for fear of losing his office, Sauter only wrote anonymously. After Freiburg passed to Baden , his Josephine anti-clerical writings no longer played a role, so that in 1810 he was also given the chair of criminal law .

Sauter was a member of the Freemason lodges at the true harmony in Vienna and at the noble view in Freiburg. Under the name of the order "Zeno Eleaticus" he belonged to the Illuminati order .

Works

  • Institutiones logicae . Freiburg 1798
  • Oratio qua praelectiones publicas juris ecclesiastici auspicatus est . 1801
  • Positiones de summo pontifice seu episcopo Romano ejus curia [et] lega . 1803
  • About the Order of Malta and its present relations with Germany in general and with Breisgau in particular. A "word in its time" . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1804 online in the Google book search , digitized
  • Fundamenta iuris ecclesiastici catholicorum . Friburgo.
    • Pars I: De natura ecclesiae cath [olicorum] . 1805-1809.
    • Pars II: Adumbratio iuris eccles [iastici] catholicorum . 1809.
    • Pars III: Notiones iuris eccles [iastici] communis 1810.
    • Pars IV: De personis ecclesiasticis 1812
    • Pars V: De rebus eccles [iasticis] 1815.
    • Pars VI: De judiciis eccles [iasticis] 1816.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Speck: 550 years of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2007, p. 79, ISBN 978-3-495-48251-3
  2. ^ Lewis, Ludwig: History of Freemasonry in Austria in general and the Vienna Lodge at St. Joseph in particular. Vienna 1861, p. 29 [1]
  3. ↑ Illuminati Wiki of the University of Erfurt [2]
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Josef Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedlingen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1817
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau