Vincenz Knauer

Vincenz Andreas Knauer OSB (born June 20, 1828 in Vienna ; † July 20, 1894 ibid) was an Austrian theologian and philosopher .

After graduating from the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Knauer studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and then from 1848 to 1850 studied theology at the seminary in St. Pölten . In 1850 joined the Schottenstift (Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of the Scots) and was ordained a priest in 1853. Until 1877 he was mainly active in pastoral care in Vienna, after which he served as novice master and cleric director between 1877 and 1885 and as librarian of the Schottenstift from 1878 to 1894.

Knauer began his university career in 1867 with a doctorate in theology in Tübingen , and in 1878 he became a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . From 1889 Knauer worked as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna.

Works (selection)

• The main problems of philosophy in their development and partial solution from Thales to Robert Hamerling , 1892
• Basics of Aristotelian-Thomistic Psychology, 1885
• William Shakespeare: The Philosopher of the Moral World Order, 1879
• History of philosophy. With special consideration of the modern age, 1876

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Knauer, Vincenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 139 ( digital copy ).
• Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany . 1892.
• Knauer, P. Vinzenz (Andreas). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 433.
• Christine Mann: Between tradition and modernity: The Güntherian Vinzenz A. Knauer (1828-1894) in search of truth in freedom . (= Religion, culture, law 14). Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2010, ISBN 3631601298 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Vincenz Knauer in the catalog of the German National Library