Sebastian Brunner

Sebastian Brunner ( born December 10, 1814 Vienna, † November 26, 1893 ) was an anti-Semitic Catholic priest and writer.

Life

Sebastian Brunner was the son of a wealthy factory owner, attended from 1826 to 1832, the Scots College, studied philosophy at the Lyceum in 1832 and 1834 Krems theology at the University of Vienna. He was ordained priest on 25 July 1838, was then a chaplain in Neudorf bei Staatz and from 1839 in Perchtoldsdorf. In 1842 he was Pfarrprovisor of Wienerherberg and in 1843 chaplain of Altlerchenfeld (Vienna VII ). Here he was able to get in touch with famous scholar, the preacher Johann Emanuel Veith joined and learned on his travels among others in Munich Johann Joseph Gorres know.

1843-1848 Brunner presented together for Metternich ambassadors' reports on the religious and political movement, and judged them. In 1846 he was sent by Metternich to Germany and France and made his observations a speech in which he predicted that the revolution breaking out in a maximum of two years.

In 1845 he was awarded his doctorate in theology and founded in 1848 the "Vienna church newspaper for faith, knowledge, freedom and law in the Catholic Church," which he edited until 1865, and has held from 1853 to 1856 the site of a holiday preacher at the University Church in Vienna. In 1856 he gave up his offices and worked only as a writer, was prothonotary apostolic and papal prelate house and 1875 fürsterzbischöflicher consistory and canon of Albano and Conte romano.

Sebastian Brunner was a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem, and was Grand Master - Procurator from 1880 until his death in 1893, he was United 's Cross of the Papal Order of the Holy grave. .

Activity and anti-Semitism

As a writer Brunner remembered by his coarse humor and wit to Abraham a Santa Clara; not only in his popular theologizing style but also by a sharp ecclesiastical and Catholic anti-Judaism. In the second half of the 19th century, this has been accompanied by the Pan-German - secular anti-Semitism in Vienna. But Brunner was to introduce on his travels in France as the "father of German anti-Semitism ." (See Friedrich Heer, "God's first love. 2000 years Judaism and Christianity ", 1967). Brunner Enlightenment, liberalism and democratic tendencies of his conservative Catholic point of view vigorously opposed in the literature especially the boys Germany as Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, Karl Gutzkow representative. The historian Erika Weinzierl described Brunner as " a key figure in the Catholic anti-Semitism ".

1888 Sebastian Brunner Lane (now part of the 13th district, Hietzing ) named in the then still independent Viennese suburb of Lainz after him. 2010 called for the Green Group in the district council, the attachment of an additional table with a reference to anti-Semitism Brunner.

His grave is in the cemetery at Maria Grossenzersdorf (district Vienna) south of Vienna.

Works (selection)

Of his numerous, nearly all the phenomena of the (then) modern life from the ultramontane point of fighting writings are:

  • The world epic. A didactic poem. A fanatical mindless denunciation of philosophy. Vienna in 1844; 4th Edition, Regensburg 1857
  • The fog boys song ( Regensburg 1845, 3rd edition 1852 anti -liberal tendencies in politics, literature and theology poetry)
  • The German Job. ( Regensburg 1846 satirical poetry against Heinrich Heine )
  • Johannes Ronge, the Luther of the 19th century. ( Regensburg 1848 Part imprint of the above work )
  • Stupid knight. Poetic Gallery German State whistles. Regensburg 1848

Novels

  • Of genius Malheur and happiness. Leipzig 1843, 2 ​​vols
  • Foreign and home. Vienna 1845
  • The Prince school Möpselglück. Regensburg 1847
  • Diogenes of Azzelbrunn. Vienna 1853

Writings

  • The German Reich cattle. 2nd Edition, Vienna 1849
  • Cuneiform inscriptions. Regensburg 1856
  • Where from? Where? A sort of autobiography. Regensburg in 1855, 2 vols

Travelogues

  • Do you know the country? Joyous journeys through Italy. Vienna 1857
  • From the Venetian and Lombard country. Vienna 1860
  • Among the living and the dead. Vienna 1862

Historical works

  • Klemens Maria Hofbauer and his time. Vienna 1858
  • The theological servants at the court of Joseph II of Vienna 1868
  • The Mysteries of the Enlightenment in Austria 1770-1800. Mainz 1869
  • The humor in diplomacy and government customer of the 18th century. Mainz in 1872, 2 vols
  • Joseph II characteristic of his life, his government and his church reform. Herder, Freiburg, 1874
  • A Benedictine book. History, etc. of the Benedictine founders. Würzburg 1880
  • A Chorherr book. Würzburg 1883
  • Hau and building blocks to a literary history of the Germans. Vienna 1884 ff

History of Art

  • The Art comrades of the monastery cell. Vienna 1863
  • Joyous studies and reviews in and about Italy. Vienna in 1866, 2 vols

Miscellaneous

  • Correspondences intimate de l' Empereur Joseph II avec son ami le comte de Cobenzel et son premier ministre le prince de Kaunitz Edited by Brunner. Mainz 1871
  • Collected stories and poetic writings. 18 vols Regensburg 1863-77
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