Ignatius von Weitenauer
German Jesuit
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- Doctorate Theology Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ignatius von Weitenauer was a German Jesuit writer, exegete, and Orientalist. Life Weitenauer was born at Ingolstadt, Bavaria. His family had been knighted by the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian Joseph. After the ordinary studies of the Society of Jesus , which he entered November 3, 1724, he taught for eleven years poetry and rhetoric in several colleges, mainly at Eichstätt. In 1753 he was called to the chair of philosophy and Oriental languages at the University of Innsbruck. When his career as professor was abruptly brought to an end by the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, he followed an invitation of the abbot of the Cistercians of Salem Abbey to continue his literary activity in the monastery. He died at Salem near Constance in Württemberg, at the age of 73.
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