Thomas Peuntner

Thomas Peuntner (* around 1390 in Guntramsdorf near Vienna ; † March 20 (?) 1439 ) was an Austrian Catholic preacher and theologian.

Life

Peuntner studied at the University of Vienna and became the student of Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl . After completing his studies, Duke Albrecht V von Habsburg appointed him court preacher in the residence. There he also worked as a confessor.

Through the intercession of his teacher Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl, Peuntner was accepted into the cathedral chapter of St. Stephan in Vienna in 1436 . In the following year Peuntner also preached in the Augustinian Choir Women's Monastery at the Himmelspforte in Vienna.

Together with Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl and Thomas Ebendorfer , known as Thomas von Haselbach, Thomas Peuntner is one of the main representatives of the Vienna School of Pastoral Theology . It was very important to him, instead of fear of hell, to proclaim love of God as the highest goal and to trust in the grace of God. The Melker Reform experienced his love of God an enormous spread.

At the age of about 50, Thomas Peuntner probably died on March 20, 1439. He found his final resting place in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Works

• Confession booklet
• Reflections on the Our Father and the Ave Maria
• Little book of the love of God
• Art of wholesome dying
• The love of God sympathizes with the mirror of sick and dying people

literature

• Ernst Haberkorn: The Beichbüchlein of Thomas Peuntner. Kümmerle, Göppingen 2001, ISBN 3-87452-945-2 .
• Hedwig Rumpler: Thomas Peuntner and his little book on the love of God after Cod. Pal. Vind. 2965. Univ., Diss., Vienna 1950.
• Rainer Rudolf: life and work of a Viennese castle priest. In: Literary Yearbook. NF 4.1963, pp. 1-19.
• Rainer Rudolf: Thomas Peuntner's art of healthy dying. Schmidt, Berlin 1956.
• Bernhard Schnell : Thomas Peuntner: Booklet of the love of God. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1984, ISBN 3-7608-3381-0 .
• Klaus Unterburger:  Peuntner, Thomas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 281 ( digitized version ).
• Andrea Bottanova: A Viennese priest between court, university and church. Thomas Peunter and his sermons in castro . ( Digitized version )

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Peuntner in the catalog of the German National Library
• handwritten transmission of the booklet
• Entry on Thomas Peuntner in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )