Joseph Zwinger

Joseph Zwinger (born March 18, 1705 in Haunersdorf near Landau an der Isar ; † June 13, 1772 in Konstanz or in the Augustinian convent Inzigkofen ) was a Jesuit priest and university teacher in Switzerland and Germany .

Live and act

He joined in 1725 at the Jesuit College in Landsberg of the Society of Jesus in. In the context of Jesuit education, he studied from 1731 to 1735 theology at the University of Ingolstadt and was on 4 June 1735 in Eichstätt for priests ordained. As was customary in the order, he was then employed as a professor of philosophy at the order's own grammar schools ( colleges ), including in Augsburg and Dillingen .

From 1743 to 1748 he was professor of theology at the Jesuit College in Lucerne , Switzerland , from 1748 to 1752 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1752 to 1758 at the University of Ingolstadt, where he taught dogmatics at the theological faculty . Then he returned to Lucerne, where he was rector of the Jesuit College from 1758 to 1761 . Another rectorate joined the University of Dillingen in 1762/63 . In the last years of his life he lived at Inzigkofen Castle of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and worked as confessor of the Constance prince-bishop and cardinal Franz Konrad von Rodt , who outlived him by three years.

He was known as “vir eloquens ac eruditus”, as an eloquent and highly educated person.

Works

• Solemn applause of ... the most revered bishop and the Holy Roman Empire Prince of Constance Casimiri Antonii (= Casimir Antonius Imperial Baron of Sickingen zu Hohenburg, Lord of Reichenau and Oeningen), Freyburg im Breyßgau 1750, 47 pp.
• Apologia divi Hieronymi adversus Johannem Clericum , Freyburg im Breyßgau 1752
• Praise speech to the world-famous Feyer of the so-called Engelweyhe in Einsiedeln ... held by P. Josepho Zwinger, the Society of Jesus, Collegii Lucernensis Rectore on the 20th day of the autumn month of the 1760th year (o.O. 1760)

literature

• Thomas Specht: History of the former University of Dillingen (1549-1804) and the teaching and educational institutions associated with it . Freiburg i. Br. 1902, p. 277
• Sebastian Huwiler: The list of professors of the Jesuit college in Lucerne (1573-1773) . In: Der Geschichtsfreund 90 (1935), p. 134
• Ferdinand Strobel (editor), edited by Brigitte Degler-Spengler : Der Regularklerus. The Society of Jesus in Switzerland . (Helvetia Sacra VII), Bern 1976, p. 158f.
• Gerd Treffen: Joseph Zwinger was born 300 years ago , in: Ingolstädter Heimatblätter 68 (2005), No. 3, p. 3
• Georgios Fatouros:  Joseph Zwinger. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 674-675.