Marian Dobmayer
Marian Dobmayer OSB (24 October 1753 – 21 December 1805) was a German Benedictine theologian.
Biography
Marian Dobmayer[1] was born in Schwandorf, Bavaria. After grammar school and initial studies in philosophy and theology at the Lyceum in Amberg, he entered the Society of Jesus, and after its suppression in 1773 joined the Benedictines in the monastery of Weissenohe, Diocese of Bamberg. There he was professed in 1775, and in 1778 ordained priest.[2]
He was successively professor of philosophy at Neuberg, Bavaria (1781–87), of dogmatic theology and ecclesiastical history at Amberg (1787–94), and of dogmatic theology and patrology at the University of Ingolstadt (1794–99). On the reorganization of the latter school in 1799 he returned his monastery of Weissenohe, where he remained until its secularization. In 1802, the abbot instructed him to use his influence in Munich to avert the threatened abolition of the Bavarian Benedictine monasteries.[3] However, like all other monasteries, Weißenohe was abolished in 1803.
He them retired to Amberg, where he taught theology until his death.
Works
Among Marian Dobmayer's writings, the posthumously published, eight-volume Synthesis of Theology, edited between 1807 and 1819 by his student, Theodor Pantaleon Senestréy, pastor of Tirschenreuth, under the title Systema Theologiae catholicæ, undoubtedly stands out.
Dobmayer's main dogmatic work is distinguished by four characteristics: The serious examination of the philosophy of the Enlightenment (including Kant and Schelling) and Protestant theology, the thorough biblical foundation, the extensive renunciation of scholastic speculation, and the attempt to constantly fill theological theory and tradition with life and put it into practice. The work is learned and moderate in its controversial parts.
References
- ↑ His baptismal name was Johann Wolfgang Dobmayer.
- ↑ Reatz, August (1916). "Marianus Dobmayer und sein theologisches System," Theologische Quartalschrift 98, pp. 78–112.
- ↑ At the same time, the liberal-enlightened part of the Weißenohe convent in Munich, through Martin Schrettinger, just forced its dissolution. See on this and on Dobmayer's time from 1799 to 1802 in Weißenohe the diaries of Schrettinger, in Josef Pöppel, Weißenohe. Zur Geschichte von Kloster und Pfarrei. Norderstedt, 2013, pp. 289–442.
- Attribution
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Further reading
- Johannes Beumer, "Zwischen Aufklärung und Restauration. Die theologische Prinzipienlehre des Marianus Dobmayer," Scholastik 39 (1964), pp. 374–90.
- Franz Sichler & Alfred Wolfsteiner, "Johann Wolfgang Dobmeier 1753-1805." In: Berühmte Schwandorfer Persönlichkeiten. Schwandorf (2006), pp. 45–50.
