Joseph Anton Weissenbach

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Joseph Anton Weißenbach (today also Weissenbach ; born October 15, 1734 in Bremgarten AG ; † April 11, 1801 ibid) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian .

Life

Weißenbach joined the Jesuit order in Landsberg am Lech in 1751 . From 1753 to 1758 he completed his master's degree at the Jesuit colleges of Constance, Regensburg and Augsburg. He was ordained priest in 1762 in Eichstätt . He then devoted himself to studying philosophy in Feldkirch and Rottenburg am Neckar until 1765 .

Weißenbach then worked as a preacher. From 1767 to 1768 was in Lucerne for the first time . There he was a preacher in the Jesuit Church and also professor of theology at the college. He then went to Dillingen on the Danube as an academic preacher in 1768 and then as a preacher at the Augsburg Cathedral in 1770 , and in 1772 he returned to Dillingen.

After the dissolution of the order in 1773, Weißenbach initially devoted himself mainly to literary work, before accepting an appointment as professor of theology at the Lucerne Faculty of Theology in 1778 . From 1782 he was finally canon in Zurzach .

His brother Leodegar Weissenbach (1743–1794) was also a Jesuit and professor of theology.

Works (selection)

  • De eloquentia patrum ll. 13 , 9 volumes. Veith, Augsburg 1775.
  • The precursors of new paganism, and the institutions that have been prepared for them , 2 volumes. 1782.
  • Nova forma theologiae biblicae his temporibus accommodata , 3 volumes. Augsburg 1785.
  • Of the abuses in the service of Mary, and what is to be abolished, restricted, retained: a house book against the faith sweepers. Thurneysen, Basel 1786.
  • De eloquentia s. scripturae ll. 4 , 2 volumes. Doll, Augsburg 1789.
  • De Arte Critica. Veith, Augsburg 1794.
  • New, improved monachology. Benedikt, Augsburg 1796.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Urban Fink: Leodegar Weissenbach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 10, 2013 , accessed July 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weißenbach, Joseph Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weissenbach, Joseph Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremgarten AG
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1801
Place of death Bremgarten AG