Wenceslaus Shanza

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Wenzel Schanza (also Wenceslaus , Czech Václav ; * between 1744 and 1748 in Brno ; † September 27, 1787 in Vienna ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman , theologian and university professor .

Life

Little is known about Schanza's early education. He studied theology and philosophy and earned a doctorate in theology and a master's degree in philosophy . After completing his studies, he entered the still young Archbishop's seminary in Vienna . In 1767 he was ordained a priest there and then worked as a pastor for a few years .

Schanza took on September 7, 1774 a reputation as a full professor of moral theology at the University of Olomouc on. He was also temporarily prefect of studies at the local seminary there. In 1779 he became rector of the university, which had meanwhile moved to Brno. In 1784 he accepted a call as professor of moral theology at the University of Vienna . His four-volume work, published from 1785 until 1791, was used as a textbook there.

Publications

  • De Theologia morali positiones in usum suorum auditorium , 2 volumes, Wappler, Vienna 1780.
  • Moralis christiana in systema redacta, locis s. scripturae, tradit. et decretis a suprema potestate latis illustrata , 4 volumes, Vienna 1785–1788.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data (p. 32) on the hiu.cas.cz page (as of January 9, 2017) deviating from 1748; in the Czech Wikipedia 1746.
  2. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger and Johann Georg Meusel (eds.): The learned Teutschland - Lexicon of the Germans now living , Lemgo 1798, Volume 7, p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Schanza, Wenceslaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schanza, Wenceslaus; Schanza, Václav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman, theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1744 or 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1787
Place of death Vienna