Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn
Jakob Anton to tower of Zallinger ( born July 26, 1735 in Upper Bozen, † January 16, 1813 in Bolzano ) was a canon lawyer and philosopher.
Life
Zallinger was born in 1735 the son of a rich patrician family of children in Bolzano. He graduated from high school and then began the study of philosophy in Innsbruck for one year. In 1753 he entered the Jesuit order at the age of 18 years. In 1765 he was ordained by the usual in religious education in philosophy and theology at the University of Ingolstadt as a priest. Six years later, in 1771, he made his solemn vows. His two brothers Johann Baptist and Francis entered the Order of the Jesuits.
Zallinger had 1766/1767 as a high school teacher in Trento and from 1767 to 1770 as a teacher at the secondary school in Munich. In 1770 he was finally transferred to the Jesuit college in Dillingen. There he received in the same year the licentiate and the Master of Arts, three years later, he should reach the theological degrees. After the dissolution in 1773 he went as a boarder back to Innsbruck to teach physics there.
In 1777 he was appointed professor of canon law at the College of St. Salvator in Augsburg - there he taught for 30 years until 1807, 1786, he received his doctorate from the University of Dillingen to the doctor juris. .
In the years 1805/1806 he worked as a consultant for German Affairs of Pope Pius VII in Rome. In 1807 he retired - after the dissolution of the College of St. Salvator - to his family back to Bolzano.
Since 1769 published Jakob Anton von Zallinger different fonts. At first he devoted himself to natural philosophy based on Isaac Newton, whose teaching he carried on. He defended the traditional metaphysics against Immanuel Kant
Works
- Interpretatio naturae seu Philosophia Newtoniana Methodo exposita et academicis usibus accommodata, 3 vols, 1773-1775
- Institutiones juris naturalis et ecclesiastici publici, 5 vols, 1784
- Institutiones juris ecclesiastici maxime privati , 5 vols, 1792/93