Matthias Dannenmayer

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Matthias Dannenmayer (born February 13, 1744 in Öpfingen ; † July 8, 1805 in Vienna ) was a Catholic church historian and professor in this subject at the Universities of Freiburg and Vienna.

Youth and Studies

After his school education in Ehingen , Matthias Dannenmayer studied philosophy and moral theology with the Jesuits in Augsburg, and dogmatics and canon law at the University of Freiburg . Ordained a priest by the Bishop of Constance, Franz Konrad von Rodt , he obtained his theological doctorate in Freiburg in 1771.

Professor in Freiburg

From 1772 Dannenmayer was a lecturer in polemics , but the following year he lectured on church history . In the following years Dannenmayer wrote various theological writings, including a general introduction to church history: Introductio in historiam ecclesiasticam universalem (1778), a history of the dispute among Lutherans over the symbolic books : Historia succincta controversiarum de librorum symbolicorum auctoritate inter Lutheranos agitata (1780 ) and on the church history of the New Testament from Christ to Constantine the Great : Institutiones historiae ecclesiasticae Novi Testamenti: Period. I a Christo usque ad Constantinum Magnum (1783). The latter work was indexed by decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of January 17, 1820 . He also wrote articles for the monthly Der Freymüthige, published by Johann Kaspar Ruef , and was a founding member of the Freiburg Freemasons' lodge Zur edlen Aussicht .

Professor in Vienna

In 1786 Dannenmayer was appointed professor for church history at the University of Vienna . When Emperor Joseph II offered a price of 100 ducats for the best textbook in church history, Matthiae Dannenmayr Theolog won. Doctoris Et Historiae Ecclesiasticae In Universitate Vindob. Prof. Publ. Ord. With his two-volume church history of the New Testament: Institutiones Historiae Ecclesiasticae Novi Test., Viennae 1788. Joseph wrote this award-winning Josephinist -oriented book, of which a four-volume German version appeared in 1828 as a guide to church history in Rottweil , as a standard textbook for all theological schools of the imperial hereditary lands . The church, on the other hand, put Dannenmayer's book on the index , especially since the author only accepted baptism , Eucharist and penance as sacraments and rejected the papal primacy .

In 1797 Emperor Franz II appointed Dannenmayer as the imperial book censor. In 1799 he became canon of the Horber Stift . He left the teaching post in 1803 when he was appointed first curator of the Vienna University Library. Dannenmayer died on July 8, 1805.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 265 (French, Google digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Hugo Frank: History of the Masonic Lodge for the Noble View in Freiburg in Baden: Part II: from 1874-1914 . Freiburg 1922, p. 199 ( (digitized) ).
  3. ^ Braun, Karl-Heinz: Wessenberg Ignaz Heinrich von (1774 - 1860) . 1983, p. 809 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-40128 ( uni-freiburg.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Dannenmayer, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dannenmayr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Öpfingen
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1805
Place of death Vienna