Josef Jungmann (theologian)

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Josef Jungmann (12 November 1830, in Münster – 25 November 1885, in Innsbruck) was a German-Austrian Catholic theologian.

Life[edit]

From 1850 he studied theology and philosophy at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, becoming ordained as a priest in 1855. In 1857 he became a member of the Society of Jesus, and during the following year, relocated as a lecturer to the University of Innsbruck. At Innsbruck, he became a professor of ecclesiastical eloquence and catechetics at the university as well as a professor of liturgy at the theological konvikt.[1][2]

Selected works[edit]

  • Die Schönheit und die schöne Kunst: nach den Anschauungen der sokratischen und der christlichen Philosophie in ihrem Wesen dargestellt (1866) – Beauty and fine art: according to the views of the Socratic and Christian philosophy represented in nature.
  • Das Gemüth, und das Gefühlsvermögen der neueren Psychologie (1868) – The mind and the ability to feel the modern psychology.[3]
  • Aesthetik (3rd edition, 1886) – Aesthetics.
  • Theorie der geistlichen Beredsamkeit : akademische Vorlesungen (2 volumes, 3rd edition 1895) – Theory of spiritual eloquence: academic lectures.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ ADB:Jungmann, Josef at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. ^ Jungmann, P. Josef (1830-1885), Theologe Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation
  3. ^ Most widely held works by Joseph Jungmann WorldCat Identities
  4. ^ HathiTrust Digital Library (publications)