Wolfgang Waldstein

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Wolfgang Waldstein (born August 27, 1928 in Hangö , Finland ) is an Austrian legal historian .

Life

After the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish winter war in 1939, Wolfgang Waldstein's family came to Salzburg in 1940 . After graduating from high school , he studied law and obtained a doctorate . In 1963 he was at the University of Innsbruck habilitation .

In 1964 he became an associate professor for Roman law at the University of Innsbruck. From 1965 until his retirement in 1992 he taught Roman law and legal philosophy as a full professor at the University of Salzburg , where he was rector from 1968 to 1969. From 1996 to 1998 he was a full professor at the Civil Law Faculty of the Pontifical Lateran University . He also taught canon law at the Gustav Siewerth Academy .

He is known among legal historians and students as the long-time editor and editor of “ Dulckeit / Schwarz / Waldstein”, a standard work on Roman legal history. Waldstein is very keen to revive natural law and published some writings on the right to life . His book Into the Heart was written by the then Pope Benedict XVI. Quoted several times in his Bundestag speech in 2011 .

In 1976 he was significantly involved in the “Campaign for the Preservation of the Tridentine Mass” and also published the entire process of the submission to the Austrian Bishops' Conference in the documentation “Pastoral care and liturgical reform ”. Since 2007 he has been honorary chairman of the lay association Pro Missa Tridentina . As a supporter of the right to life movement , he is involved in several associations against abortion and belongs, among others, to the Juristenvereinigung Lebensrecht eV V. , who advocated the prosecution of abortion .

Since May 31, 1994 Waldstein was a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and since 1999 a member of the executive council of this academy. With the rejuvenation and reorganization of the academy as part of the 2016 curia reform, which ended the dominance of Opus Dei in the institution, he left the academy without being able to retain the honorary membership that was automatically awarded at the age of 80 according to the original statutes. Waldstein has been mentioned as a well-known Austrian Opus Dei member since the 1980s . In his memoirs he only mentions one daughter who is a full member of this organization.

Wolfgang Waldstein is Catholic , widowed and the father of several children. As a hobby he works as a freelance wood sculptor. He is the father of the theologian Michael Waldstein .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the Roman right to pardon: Abolitio, indulgentia, venia . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1964 (= habilitation thesis).
  • The human right to live. Contributions to questions of the protection of human life . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-05175-0 .
  • Operae libertorum. Investigation into the compulsory service of released slaves . Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04699-2 .
  • Latest findings on the Turin Shroud . Atomic research also proves authenticity . Christiana, Stein am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-7171-1029-2 .
  • Written in the heart. Natural law as the foundation of a human society . Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86744-137-7 .
  • My life. Memories . Media Maria, Illertissen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815943-4-8 .
  • Brain death - organ donation . Regina Breul in conversation with Wolfgang Waldstein. Media Maria, Illertissen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815943-5-5 .
  • Natural law in Roman law and in European legal development . In: Civitas. Journal for the Christian Community. Special issue 6: Natural law and human rights. Sarto , Bobingen 2015.

literature

  • Alexander Pinwinkler : The “founding generation” of the University of Salzburg. Biographies, networks, appointment policy, 1960–1975 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2020, ISBN 978-3-205-20937-9 (on Waldstein in particular: pp. 52–66, 210–220).
  • Martin Josef Schermaier , Zoltán Végh (ed.): Ars boni et aequi. Festschrift for Wolfgang Waldstein on his 65th birthday . Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-06022-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address by Pope Benedict XVI. , Berlin Reichstag building, September 22, 2011, accessed on the Vatican website on February 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ Board of Directors (with picture), Pro Missa Tridentina's homepage , accessed on February 24, 2019.
  3. ^ A b Brigitte Schliermann: The Catholic Church and Catholic Organizations. In: Mechthild Bock, Theresia Degener, Barbara Ritter, Helga Satzinger u. a. (Authors); Women against § 218 - Nationwide coordination (Ed.): Caution life protectors. The power of the organized anti-abortionists. Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-8945-8107-7 , pp. 11–35, here: p. 31.
  4. ^ Küng and the Austrian Opus Dei. In: Der Standard , June 1, 2006, accessed February 2019.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Waldstein: My life. Memories. Media Maria Verlag, Illertissen 2013, p. XX.
  6. ↑ AAS 91 (1999), n.10, p. 1016.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Waldstein. Péter Pázmány Catholic University, accessed February 25, 2018 (Hungarian).
personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal historian, professor of Roman law
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hangö , Finland