Marian Dobmayer

Marian Dobmayer OSB , baptismal name Johann Wolfgang Dobmayer , (born October 24, 1753 in Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate, † December 21, 1805 in Amberg ), was a German priest and professor of Catholic theology .

Life

After high school and his first studies in philosophy and theology at the Lyceum in Amberg, he joined the Jesuit order in 1772/73 . Since this was already abolished in 1773/74, he asked for admission in the Benedictine monastery Weißenohe (Upper Franconia) . There he made his profession with the religious name Marian in 1774 and was ordained a priest in 1778 .

In 1781 he was offered the chair of philosophy at the Lyceum in Neuburg an der Donau . In 1787 he returned to the Lyceum in Amberg as rector and professor of dogmatics . From there he was appointed to the chair for dogmatics and patrology at the University of Ingolstadt in 1794 . After restructuring the theological studies there, he retired to his monastery in Weißenohe in 1799 , where he was temporarily released from the usual duties in the convent in order to be able to devote himself to the preparation of his main theological work. In 1802 the abbot commissioned him to exert his influence in the capital Munich in order to avert the threatened abolition of the Bavarian Benedictine monasteries. But like all other monasteries, Weißenohe was closed in 1803. Dobmayer regained his chair in Amberg, but died there in 1805.

effect

Among the writings of Marian Dobmayers, the posthumously published eight-volume synthesis of theology, which was published between 1807 and 1819 by his pupil, Theodor Pantaleon Senestréy, pastor of Tirschenreuth , under the title Systema Theologiae catholicae , stands out without a doubt . Dobmayer's main dogmatic work is characterized by four characteristics: the serious examination of the philosophy of the Enlightenment (including Kant and Schelling ) and Protestant theology, the thorough biblical foundation, the extensive renunciation of scholastic speculations and the attempt to consistently reflect the theological theory and Filling tradition with life and putting it into practice.

Fonts

P. Mariani Dobmair ... schema praelectionum ex philosophia spirituum et elementis matheseos . Augsburg 1784.
Extract from the theoretical and practical philosophy, and the beginnings of Mathematick . Ingolstadt 1785.
Theorems from the subjects of the first philosophical class in Neuburg an der Donau . Ingolstadt 1786.
Conspectus theologiae dogmaticae catholicae . Amberg 1789.
Systema Theologiae catholicae . 8 volumes, edited by Theodor Pantaleon Senestréy. Sulzbach 1807-1819.
Institutiones theologicae . 2 volumes, edited by Emmeram Salomon, Sulzbach 1823 (2nd edition 1833).

literature

August Reatz : Marianus Dobmayer and his theological system . In: Theologische Viertelschrift 98, 1916, pp. 78–112.
Johannes Beumer: Between Enlightenment and Restoration. The theological principles of Marianus Dobmayer . In: Scholastik 39, 1964, pp. 374-390.
Franz Sichler and Alfred Wolfsteiner: Johann Wolfgang Dobmeier 1753-1805 . In: Famous Schwandorf Personalities . Schwandorf 2006, pp. 45-50.

Web links

Wikisource: Marian Dobmayer - Sources and full texts (English)

Literature by and about Marian Dobmayer in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Marian Dobmayer in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Individual evidence

↑ On Dobmayer's biography cf. Reatz: Marianus Dobmayer , 1916, p. 77, and Sichler, Wolfensteiner: Johann Wolfgang Dobmeier , 2006, pp. 45-48.
↑ At the same time, the liberal-enlightened part of the Weißenoher Konvent in Munich, through Martin Willibald Schrettinger, pushed the closure of the compartment, cf. on this and at Dobmayer's time from 1799 to 1802 in Weißenohe the diaries of Schrettinger, in Josef Pöppel: Weißenohe. On the history of the monastery and parish . Norderstedt 2013, pp. 289–442. ISBN 978-3-7322-3580-3 .
↑ Reatz in particular emphasizes: Marianus Dobmayer , 1916, pp. 76–112 in his thoroughly benevolent treatise, in which, from a neo-Gothic-school theological perspective, he does not spare criticism.
↑ Even if it is precisely at this point in the present version of the text that the editor's interventions and independent additions are not always clearly recognizable, as Beumer: Zwischen Aufklerung, 1964, pp. 374–390, underlines.

personal data
SURNAME	Dobmayer, Marian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dobmayer, Johann Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German priest and professor of Catholic theology
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1805
Place of death	On the mountain

[1] On Dobmayer's biography cf. Reatz: Marianus Dobmayer , 1916, p. 77, and Sichler, Wolfensteiner: Johann Wolfgang Dobmeier , 2006, pp. 45-48.

[2] At the same time, the liberal-enlightened part of the Weißenoher Konvent in Munich, through Martin Willibald Schrettinger, pushed the closure of the compartment, cf. on this and at Dobmayer's time from 1799 to 1802 in Weißenohe the diaries of Schrettinger, in Josef Pöppel: Weißenohe. On the history of the monastery and parish . Norderstedt 2013, pp. 289–442. ISBN 978-3-7322-3580-3 .

[3] Reatz in particular emphasizes: Marianus Dobmayer , 1916, pp. 76–112 in his thoroughly benevolent treatise, in which, from a neo-Gothic-school theological perspective, he does not spare criticism.

[4] Even if it is precisely at this point in the present version of the text that the editor's interventions and independent additions are not always clearly recognizable, as Beumer: Zwischen Aufklerung, 1964, pp. 374–390, underlines.