Ludwig Schütz

Ludwig Schütz (born April 27, 1838 in Mayen near Koblenz, † December 9, 1901 in Trier ) was a German Catholic priest and historian of philosophy.

Schütz was ordained a Catholic priest in 1863 and worked from 1868 to 1897 as a professor of philosophy at the Trier seminary. Co-founder of the Görres Society , he worked on their Philosophical Yearbook . From 1886, Schütz, as the successor to Paul Leopold Haffner, also headed the philosophical section of the Görres Society. In the neo-Thomist camp firmly locates, he created the still used a lot and much appreciated Thomas dictionary. Collection, translation and explanation of all the works of St. Thomas Aquinas occurring artistic expressions and scientific sayings . Other monographs were his work Proof of reason for the immortality of the human soul (1874) and his Introduction to Philosophy (1879). Well versed in church music, he campaigned in vain for the old Trier chant to be retained.

Works

• Proof of reason for the immortality of the human soul Paderborn, Schöningh 1874
• Introduction to philosophy. Paderborn, Schöningh 1879 ( ULB Münster )
• The so-called mind of animals or the animal instinct: a popular scientific study. Paderborn 1880 ( ULB Münster )
• Thomas Lexicon. Collection, translation and explanation of all the works of St. Thomas Aquinas occurring artistic expressions and scientific sayings . Paderborn: Schöningh 2nd edition 1895 (reprint Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1964 and other) (x, 889 p.). ( corpusthomisticum.org )
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literature

• Achim Krümmel:  Ludwig Schütz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1077-1080.
• Achim Krümmel: Life and work of the neo-scholastic theologian and philosophy professor Ludwig Schütz (1838-1901). In: Traditio Augustiniana. Festschrift for Williges Eckermann . Würzburg 1994, pp. 339-380.