Franz Magnis-Suseno

Franz Magni - Suseno, SJ (* as Franz Graf von Magni, May 26, 1936 in Ecker village, now Bożków in Poland; county Glatz ) is a Catholic theologian and social philosopher in Indonesia.

Life

Franz Magni - Suseno comes from the noble family of Magni. His parents were Ferdinand of Magni on Ecker village and Strassnitz (1905-1996) and Princess Maria Anna of Löwenstein -Wertheim -Rosenberg ( 1914-2000 ). His grandfather was Anton Franz von Magni After the expulsion of the family in 1945 to West Germany put Franz Magni - Suseno 1955, graduating from the College of St. Blaise from. He then joined the Jesuit order. He then studied philosophy and went with permission of Major Superiors at his own request as a missionary to Indonesia. In 1973 he earned his doctorate at the University of Munich with the topic Normative Requirements in the thinking of the young Marx. As he continued to feel obliged Indonesia, he learned the language and took 1977, the Indonesian citizenship as well as the surname of Suseno. In Indonesia, he lectured at the Philosophical Institute of Jakarta, the rector of which he was, and at the University of Indonesia.

Among his Christian- social concerns, inter alia, include social justice, solidarity with the poor and religious tolerance. Great, who did much to Christian-Muslim dialogue.

In 2001 he received the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Faculty of Theology of the University of Lucerne in 2002 awarded him an honorary doctorate. The award of the Indonesian Achmad Bakrie Award in 2007 for his involvement refused Franz Magni - Suseno. The rejection he founded, so that the affected people lost all their possessions with the lack of help the Bakrie group for the victims of a mud volcano that destroyed many villages because of a subterranean well of the group.

Writings

  • Normative Requirements in the thinking of the young Marx ( 1843-1848 ). Dissertation. Freiburg. Munich 1975.
  • Javanese wisdom and ethics. Munich, Vienna 1981.
  • New wings for Garuda. Indonesia between tradition and modernity. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-925412-08-5.
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