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Matthäus Fingerlos (born September 6, 1748 in Flatschach , Lungau , † December 11, 1817 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian-German Catholic theologian .

Life

Fingerlos was born as the son of the farmer Johann Fingerlos and his wife, the cooker Katharina Fingerlos. From 1761 he attended the Benedictine grammar school in Salzburg and began studying philosophy there in 1767. After ordination as a priest in 1770, he worked as a pastor in the country from 1774. In 1783 he became a cooperator in Salzburg and cathedral preacher , in 1785 city chaplain. In 1787 he took over the leadership of the archbishop's seminary as Regens . In 1801 he went to the Salzburg enclave of Mühldorf am Inn as a city pastor and two years later became a Bavarian subject.

From 1804 to 1814 he was director of the Georgianiums in Landshut and from 1806 to 1814 at the city's University professor of pastoral theology . As a supporter of the Enlightenment , he was in conflict with the emerging Landshut Romanticism around Johann Michael Sailer .

literature

• Heinz Marquart: Matthäus Fingerlos (1748-1817). Life and work of a pastoral theologian and seminar ruler in the Enlightenment period. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1977. ISBN 3-525-87477-4