Anton Günther

Anton Günther ( born November 17 1783 in Lindenau ( Lindava ), now part of Cvikov, † February 24, 1863 in Vienna ) was an Austrian philosopher and theologian.

Life

The son of a village blacksmith studied law and philosophy in Prague and Vienna with Bernard Bolzano and Klemens Maria Hofbauer. Finally, he achieved by the successful promotion the title of Doctor of Divinity. After ordination in 1821 he became a novice of the Society of Jesus in Starawieś in Galicia.

He left after two years of novitiate the Society of Jesus, who appeared to him too authoritarian and returned in 1824 to Vienna, where he was active as a private scholar. Here he created a new Catholic philosophical doctrine called Güntherianismus, which consisted mainly in a rational justification of Christianity and of a sound anthropology. Its main objective was to prevent the neo-scholasticism as the only possible Catholic philosophy.

1857 his writings were placed on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Catholic Church. At the instigation of Cardinal scourge and Joseph Pope Pius IX condemned Kleutgen. Günther's teaching in the letter Eximiam Tuam on 15 June 1857. Günther submitted to the papal verdict.

Reception

Günther's theory gained in the years 1830 to 1870 big impact. At influenced by him philosophers and theologians include Johann Nepomuk Ehrlich, Karl Werner, Johann Heinrich Leo, Jacob Zukrigl, Xaver Schmid, Jacob Merten, Theodor Gangauf OSB, Johann Spörlein, Georg Karl Mayer, Peter Knoodt, Peter Joseph Elvenich, Johann Baptist Baltzer, Joseph Hubert Reinkens and Matthew Hörfarter.

Günther was accused by the Catholic side " Semirationalismus ". Against him wrote, inter alia, Johann haste Wenzeslaus Mattes, Ildephons Sorg, OSB, Johann Oischinger, Franz Xaver Dieringer, Franz Jakob Clemens, Friedrich Michelis, Johann Adam Hitzfelder, Joseph Kleutgen, John Katschthaler.

After Gunther's condemnation some of his students took before modifications to the teaching system, some also turned to the Old Catholicism.

In 1875 (9th district) was named the Günthergasse after him in Vienna Alsergrund.

Works

  • Preschool for speculative theology of positive Christianity, 2 vols, 1828-1829
  • Southern and Northern Lights speculative theology on the horizon, 1832
  • Janus heads of Philosophy and Theology ( with JH Pabst ), 1833
  • The last symbolists. A caused by the symbolic works Dr. JA Mohler and Dr. FC Baur's writing in letters, 1834
  • Thomas a scrupulis. At the transfiguration of Persönlichkeitspantheismen recently, 1835
  • The juste milieu in German philosophy the present time, 1838
  • Eurystheus and Heracles. Metalogical reviews and meditations, 1843
  • Lydia, Philosophical Yearbook, 5 volumes from 1849 to 1854, co-edited with Johann Emanuel Veith
  • Collected Writings, 9 volumes, 1882, reissue 1968 in Frankfurt am Main
  • Anti- Savarese, Edited by Peter Knoodt, Vienna 1883

Late headings:

  • Joseph Pritz ( Ed.): signposts to theology, letters Anton Gunther Johann Nepomuk Ehrlich, with an introduction, Vienna contributions to theology 37, Vienna 1971.
  • Johann Reikerstorfer (ed.): Lentigos and Peregrins correspondence and Anti- Savarese, 1978 ( first printed in 1857, but only in the circle spread, 1883 reprint of Knoodt so )
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