Werner Reiss

Werner Reiss (* 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Catholic theologian , lawyer and philosopher .

Life

Werner Reiss graduated in 1963 with a degree in Law from. He entered the Jesuit order and began to study philosophy (1971 doctorate in theology at the University of Innsbruck ).

He headed the international cultural center of Caritas , he worked as a lecturer for political theory of the 20th century at the University of Vienna and as a lecturer for philosophy of the arts at the Vienna Art Academy .

In addition, he taught as a teacher at several technical vocational secondary schools ( HTL ). Since the mid-1990s he has been the rector of the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel on Vienna's Währinger Gürtel .

Werner Reiss is in addition to his work as rector, spiritual assistant of the cath. Academy Association of Austria, President of the Kolping Family Wien-Währing and chairman of the Kulturbogen association.

Publications

• Paul, apostle - strength in weakness. Steyl-SVD, [1984?] (Audio cassette).
• Otto Mauer : The battered kingdom of God. Theological speeches. Edited and commented by Werner Reiss. Hora, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-213-00018-3 .
• New legends in biblical handwriting. Platform, Perchtoldsdorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503682-1-5 .

Awards

• 2005: Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna

Web links

• St. John Nepomuk Chapel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna Parish Alser Vorstadt, Johannes Nepomuk Chapel. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
2. ↑ Long Night of Churches Vienna 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reinhard Schobesberger, Werner Reiss: The temptation of St. Antonius. Reading from the work of Gustave Flaubert , June 5, 2009.  
3. ↑ Short-CV team side of John of Nepomuk Chapel
4. ↑ Awarding of the Golden Decoration of Honor of the City of Vienna to Werner Reiss. In: RK der Stadt Wien from April 4, 2005.