Karl Werner

Werner Karl or Carl Werner ( born March 8, 1821 in Hafnerbach in Lower Austria, † April 14, 1888 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Catholic philosophy and church historian of theology history.

Life and work

Werner attended from 1830 to 1836 the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, was ordained a priest in 1843 and 1845 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna Dr. theol. doctorate. He was influenced by Anton Günther, whose dualistic anthropology he later modified by thoma forensic terms. He was appointed in 1847 as professor of moral theology at St. Pölten, taught there also metaphysics and moral philosophy, and from 1856 also Patrology; In 1865 he moved to the New Testament. In 1870, he was professor at the University of Vienna, where he was still reading the philosophy of religion even after retirement. It was built in 1885 Titularpropst of pen Zwettl.

Werner met all expectations to a teacher of Catholic theology, proving that too with canonical treatises on morals, scholasticism, St. Thomas. But he also sought out the interesting questions from the patristic and medieval history, from the schism between Eastern and Western Church, without shy away from pre-and non-Christian religiosity. As an Austrian, he was able to maintain a balance between German and Roman theology, he studied the ( " tier " ) humanism of Vico, but also the philosophy of ( convicted ) Rosmini. He devoted his condemned ( " dualistic " ) teacher Günther various studies and sought its head reception at the Italian idealism. He also showed his sympathy with the sentencing of Bolzano, but dared not stop there an apology. Other hand, he also devoted himself to the fashion themes of psychology and idealist aesthetics. With the "History of the apologetic and polemical literature of Christian theology " he had given the German Catholic theology a compendium, which this could compete again with Protestant competition, true to the Döllingerschen program the Odeon lectures of 1863. In the first edition of his book on the history Catholic theology of Trent to the Present (1866 ), he raves about the " flourishing of theological schools in Munich, Tübingen and Freiburg casting " and solidarity with the "on the modern national educational aspirations oriented Catholic theologians in Germany". In conjunction with the large Wetzer Welte 's Church lexicon, even in the continued pursuit by Hergenstadt Röthers second edition, he sützt a liberal, opening theology. However, in the culture war he remained completely unchallenged on the Roman side, highly honored by those who opted for the waste of Rome, such as his biographer Heinrich Reusch.

Works

• System of Christian ethics. 3 volumes. Manz, Regensburg from 1850 to 1852.
• Vote on Anton Günther's theological speculation with regard to their assessment by Dr. Clemens. Regensburg 1853
• Elements of the Philosophy. Regensburg 1855
• Floor plan of a history of moral philosophy. Vienna 1858
• St. Thomas Aquinas. 3 volumes. Manz, Regensburg from 1858 to 1859. , New edition 1889
• Francis Suarez and the scholasticism of the last centuries. 2 vols, Regensburg 1861, new edition 1889
• History of the apologetic and polemical literature of Christian theology. 5 vols Schaffhausen: Hurter 1861-1867. Reprint in Zeller Vlg Osnabrück: Permalink Austrian Library Network. downloadable from Google Books
• Enchiridion theologiae moralis. Vienna 1863
• The tidings of the divine word of life. Schaffhausen 1864
• Christian Gottlob Barth. 3 vols 1865-1869
• History of Catholic theology since the Council of Trent to the present. Munich: History of the Sciences in Germany 6, 1866 Munich Leipzig, 1889, downloadable.
• Alcuin and his century. Paderborn 1867, 21880, new edition 1881 Vienna
• For guidance on the nature and task of Christian philosophy. Schaffhausen 1867
• About the nature and concept of the human soul. Brixen 1865. 2nd edition 1868, 3rd edition 1868 Schaffhausen
• Speculative Anthropology from the Christian- philosophical point of view. Munich 1870
• Religions and cults of pre-Christian paganism. Schaffhausen 1871
• The psychology of Wilhelm von Auvergne. Vienna 1873
• Wilhelm v. Auvergne 's relationship to the Platonists of the 12th century. Vienna 1873
• The cosmology and natural philosophy of the scholastic Middle Ages, with special reference to Wilh. v. Conches. Vienna 1874
• For metaphysics of beauty. Vienna 1874
• The Venerable Bede and his times. Vienna 1875
• The course of development of medieval psychology of Alcuin to Albertus Magnus. Vienna 1876
• The psychology and epistemology of John Bonaventura. Vienna 1876
• The psychology and epistemology of John Duns Scotus. Vienna 1877
• The linguistic logic of John Duns Scotus. Vienna 1877
• About Giambattista Vico as a philosopher of history. Vienna 1877
• Henry of Ghent as a representative of Christian Platonism in the 13th century. Vienna 1878
• The cosmology and general nature of teaching of Roger Bacon. Vienna in 1879
• The psychology, cognitive science and teaching of Roger Bacon. Vienna in 1879
• Giambattista Vico as a philosopher and scholar researcher. Vienna in 1879. 21881
• Emerico Amari in his relationship to GB Vico. Vienna 1880
• The Averroism in the Christian Peripatetic psychology of the later Middle Ages. Vienna 1881
• Gerbert von Aurillac. Vienna 1878. New edition 1881
• Kant in Italy. Vienna 1881
• The scholasticism of the later Middle Ages. 4 volumes. Braumüller, Vienna 1881-1887.
• The Augustinian psychology. Vienna 1882
• The nominalisierende psychology of scholasticism of the later Middle Ages. Vienna 1882
• The Cartesian - Malebranche'sche philosophy in Italy. Vienna 1883
• A. Rosmini's position in the history of modern philosophy, especially the Italian. Vienna 1884
• Idealistic theories of beauty in the Italian philosophy of the 19th century. Vienna 1884
• The Italian 19th-century philosophy. 5 vols, Vienna 1884-1886
• Two philosophical contemporaries GB Vico 's: PM Doria and Tomm. Rossi. Vienna 1886.
• History of Catholic theology since the Council of Trent to the present. Munich Leipzig, 1889 ( Neauausgabe to 1866)
• Gügler. ADB 10, 95-99