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Konstantin Freiherr von Schaezler (Born May 7, 1827 in Augsburg, † September 19, 1880 in Interlaken) was a Catholic theologian and representative of Neuthomism and Neuscholastic. He was a consultant at the first Vatican Council in Rome.

Schaezler came from the rich, Protestant Augsburg banking family from Schaezler.
After graduating from high school at the St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg, he studied in Erlangen 1844/45, Munich 1845 to 1847 and Heidelberg 1847/48 Jurisprudenz, then did officer service at the Bavarian army until 1850. In 1850, after completing a legal internship in Traunstein, he became Dr. jur. PhD.

Schaezler, who has been attracted to Catholicism since childhood and wanted to be Capuchin at times, converted in Brussels in 1850 at the later General Jesuit General Pierre Jean Beckx. He then studied theology at the Roman Collegium in Rome. In 1851 he joined the novitiate of the Jesuits in Drongen near Ghent, and a stationary path began with in-depth and resignation into various Catholic religious communities. He continued his theological training in Löwen in 1853. In 1856 ordained a priest in Liège, he left Jesus’ society in 1857 and continued his studies in Munich, which he completed in 1859 with a doctorate in theology. He was in friendly contact with Ignaz from Döllinger and the strictly church, former Munich general vicar Friedrich Windischmann.

In 1860/61 Schaezler was repetent at the Seminar Osnabrück. After his failed attempt to be recorded in the order of the speech, he entered the Dominican monastery in Huissen in 1861/62. He turned to the newthomism represented by the Dominicans. Like the influence of Windischmann and close to him, this led to the estrangement of Döllinger, against his Speech about the past and the present of Catholic theology he protested together with seven other conservative theologians at the “Munich Scholar Assembly” in 1863.

After his attempts to obtain a professorship, the resistance of German University theologians failed, he became a private lecturer in Freiburg im Breisgau. Already during the I. Vatican, he acted as the theological advisor to the redemptorist cardinal Victor-Augustin-Isidore Dechamps, he moved to Rome in 1873, where he had worked as a consultor of the Roman Inquisition and other Roman congregations since 1874. In 1879 he joined the Jesuits again in Naples. He died on a journey through Switzerland before his planned resignation.

His sister, the writer Olga von Leonrod (1828–1901), had the body transferred to Freiburg im Breisgau. [first] For his grave, she ordered a statue of St. Thomas Aquin from the Freiburg sculptor Julius Seitz. She had become aware of him by his tomb at Campo Santo Teutonico. In 1882, the sculpture of 1.40 m high, which consisted of Carrara marble, was moved to the old part of the change hall of the Freiburg main cemetery and was destroyed in the Second World War during the Operation Tigerfish. [2]

Schaezler and his sister Olga be testamented their kingdom of the then seminar of the Archdiocese of Freiburg in St. Peter (“Olga and Constantin von Schaezler’s Foundation” for the promotion of thomist studies).

Schaezler, who made a name for himself as a leading Neuscholastics, is considered to be original, despite all the loyalty of Thomas Aquin. He became known for the papal infallibility as well as his controversy with Johannes Evangelist Kuhn about the relationship between nature and grace, which was also important as part of the argument between “Roman” and “German” theology.

Already at the beginning of this controversy he stood for the establishment of a Catholic university that was independent of the state, against which Kuhn had spoken out. He played an active role in the efforts of extremely ultra -ultramontaneous circles around the redemptorist Carl Erhard Schmöger, the Cardinal Cardinal Karl August von Reisach and the Regensburg Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey, in the Roman Inquisition in 1867 the conviction of Kuhn and 1873 that Johann Michael Sailers . Schaezler submitted the indictment under his name; However, the conviction failed both times due to the opposition of the Jesuit theologian John Baptist Franzelin, who provided the office of the Inquisition. Much indicates that Schaezler could only be determined under pressure to submit the indicators. Schaezler’s influence was particularly important in the Dominican order; Schaezler students include Ernst Commer and Herman Schell and the secretary of the index congregation, Thomas Esser, who attributed his entry into the Dominican order to Schäzler.

  • The teaching of the effectiveness of the sacraments ex operato operato in their development within scholastic and its importance for Christian salvation , Munich 1859.
  • Nature and the over nature. The dogma of the grace and the theological question of the present. A criticism of Kuhn’s theology , Mainz 1865.
  • New studies on the dogma of grace and the nature of the Christian faith. With special consideration for the dermal representation of Catholic dogmatics at the universities of Tübingen, Munich and Freiburg , Mainz 1867.
  • The dogma of the incarnation of God/Christ in the spirit of St. Thomas Freiburg I. Br. 1870.
  • The first resolutions of the Vatican Concils and the religious needs of the present Freiburg I. Br. 1870.
  • The papal infallibility from the nature of the church proved , Freiburg/Br. 1870.
  • St. Thomas Doctor Angelicus against Liberalism invincible Veritatis assertor. The doctrine of St. Thomas to exterior to this age errors and efficacy diary in the text CENTENARIO ANGRY , Rome 1874.
  • Introduction in St. Theology dogmatic to the mind of St. Thomas Aquinas , postally ed. by Thomas Esser, Regensburg 1882.
  • The importance of the dogm story – discussed from the Catholic point of view , postally ed. by Thomas Esser, Regensburg 1884.
  • Alois Knöpfler: Schäzler, Constantin Freiherr of . In: General German biography (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 649–651.
  • Raimund Lachner:  Konstantin von Schaezler. In: Biographical-bibliographical church lexicon (BBKL). Band 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0, Sp. 1559–1561. ( Article/beginning of the internet archives )
  • Otto Weiß: Schäzler, Johann Lorenz Constantin Freiherr von. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2, p. 533 f. ( Digitized ).
  • Otto Weiß: Constantin Freiherr von Schaezler – new accents due to new sources , in: Gisela Fleckenstein – Michael Klöcker – Norbert Schloßmacher, Church history. Old and new ways. Commemorative publication for Christoph Weber , Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2008, 307–442.
  1. ↑ Alois Knöpfler: Schäzler, Constantin Freiherr of . In: General German biography (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 649–651.
  2. ↑ Michael customer: Artist prince in the province. The sculptor Julius Seitz . In: Sculpture in Freiburg. Art of the 19th century in public space, ed. v. Michael Klant, Freiburg 2000, p. 181, ISBN 3-922675-77-8