Wenzel Dientzenhofer

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Wenzel Dientzenhofer (born January 25, 1750 in Prague ; † August 25, 1805 there ) was a Bohemian Jesuit , legal scholar and historical researcher .

Origin and career

Wenzel Dientzenhofer came from the Upper Bavarian master builder family of Dientzenhofer . His father was the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer . In 1765 Wenceslaus entered the Jesuit order and studied at the Universities of Olomouc and Prague. He then became a Latin teacher in Jihlava .

After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773 he received his doctorate in 1777. phil. in Olomouc and in 1779 as Dr. jur. in Vienna. In 1780 he was appointed professor of general constitutional and international law at the University of Innsbruck . After its dissolution in 1782, he was transferred to the University of Prague as Professor of Constitutional and International Law .

Works

  • Dissertatio de decimis (1779)
  • Twenty-eight genealogical tables of the Bohemian princes, dukes and kings, explained by notes, together with the chronological table of the Bohemian-Moravian princes and margraves (1805)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Dientzenhofer, Wenzel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dienzenhofer, Wenzel; Dinzenhofer, Wenzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, legal scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1805
Place of death Prague