Ignatius von Weitenauer

Ignaz von Weitenauer ( born November 1, 1709 in Ingolstadt, † February 4, 1783 Salomon hamlet ) was a Bavarian- Austrian Jesuit Orientalist and professor at the University of Innsbruck. He created a Bible dictionary, prepared a German translation of the Bible with notes and wrote a speech critical writing, with which he participated in the late baroque language dispute between the Upper German writing language and the NHG.

Life

Weitenauer occurred on November 3, 1724 in the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ) a. After completing his studies he was employed as a teacher of poetry and rhetoric, and taught 14 years in various schools of the Order, so in Ingolstadt and Eichstätt. In 1753 he became professor of Greek and Hebrew at the University of Innsbruck. There he wrote a dictionary to translate the Bible from Latin, Greek and Hebrew, which appeared in Augsburg and Freiburg im Breisgau in 1758 and also in Italy and France became widespread. From 1764 comes his critical writing spoke of doubt the German language, in which he analyzed grammatical and vokabularische individual problems in the translation of foreign publications. He was represented at the position of the Catholic clergy from the South German - Austrian area and stood against sprachpuristische aspirations of Protestant scholars in the North, particularly against the anomalists Johann Christoph Gottsched in Leipzig. By 1778 four more editions of this document appeared. 1768 was Weitenauer - as a kind of summation of his teaching - an anthology of poetry and prose of various German poet out, which appeared in Ignaz Wagner in Augsburg.

After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, and thus their displacement from the universities he retired to the Cistercian monastery of Salem at Lake Constance. There he worked on a new translation of the Old and New Testament with notes and translation notes, which appeared from 1782 to 1783 in 12 volumes by the Joseph Wolf fish bookstore in Augsburg. In the same year he died aged 73.

In addition to his philological and biblical studies works are of Weitenauer both poems, and songs and plays handed down in Latin, which are entirely in the Baroque tradition of Jesuit theater and were printed in 1757 under the title Carmina Selecta.