Cajetan Weiller

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Cajetan Weiller

Cajetan Weiller , from 1807 von Weiller , (born August 2, 1761 in Munich ; † June 24, 1826 there ) was a German Catholic clergyman and educator .

Life

Cajetan Weiller was the son of a craftsman. Until 1778 he attended the former Jesuit high school (today's Wilhelmsgymnasium ) in Munich. He then entered the Benediktbeuern monastery as a novice , but soon left it and studied theology at the University of Munich . On May 21, 1785 he was ordained a priest in Freising. Then he worked as a teacher in Munich. In 1799 he became professor for practical philosophy and education and its rector at the Lyceum assigned to the Wilhelmsgymnasium . From 1809 to 1823 he was director of the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium. From 1806 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ; since October 22, 1823, as successor to Friedrich von Schlichtegroll, General Secretary and from 1807 bearer of the personal nobility title.

He was a distinguished school reformer, collaborator on the "curriculum for all Kurpfalzbaierischen secondary schools" drawn up by Joseph Wismayr in 1804 and in the dispute between the old Bavarian "realists", who advocated an emphasis on "realities" in school lessons, and the neo-humanist- oriented "idealists" an opponent in particular from their representative Friedrich Thiersch .

tomb

Grave of Kajetan Weiller on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Kajetan Weiller is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (Old Arkadenplatz 94 at cemetery 19) location .

Fonts

  • The spirit of the very latest philosophy of Messrs. Schelling, Hegel and Comp. (1804; with Jakob Salat )
  • Mind and reason. (1806)
  • Ideas on the history of the development of religious belief. (3 vols., 1808-1815)
  • About the religious task of our time. (1820) ( online )
  • The spirit of the oldest Catholicism as the basis for each later. A contribution to the philosophy of religion. (1824)
  • Attempt of an educational building. (2 vols., 1802)
  • Devotional hours for students in higher grades. (3 vols., 1802-1807)
  • Small writings (3 vols., 1822–1825)

literature

  • Biography and list of publications in: Kajetan von Weiller: Character portrayals of men as tall as a soul. In addition to the biography of the deceased author. Ernst August Fleischmann, Munich 1827, pp. 5-24 ( online ).
  • Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 4, Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1835, p. 675 ( online ).
  • General German conversation lexicon for the educated of every class. 2nd edition, 10th volume, Reichenbach, Leipzig 1841, p. 710 ( online ).
  • Wilhelm Binder: General Realencyclopadie or Conversationslexicon for Catholic Germany. 10 vol., Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1849, p. 742 ( online ).
  • Heinrich Reusch:  Weiller, Cajetan from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 494.
  • Georgios Fatouros :  hamlet, Cajetan of. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 614-615.
  • Christiane Ruberg: How is education possible? Moral education among the early pedagogical Kantians. Julius Klinkhardt Verlag, Rieden 2002, ISBN 3-7815-1235-5 , p. 129 ( online sample ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . Vol. 3, Munich 1973, p. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Weiller, Cajetan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiller, Cajetan of; Weiller, Kajetan from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1826
Place of death Munich