BABENSTUBER, Ludwig. - Benedictine, born at Deining (Upper Bavaria) in 1660, died at Ettal in 1726. Having made his profession at the monastery of Ettal (1682) and completed his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Salzburg, he was ordained priest (1689) and taught philosophy at Salzburg and at the monastery of the Canons Regular of Schlehdorf. Having obtained the degree in theology at Salzburg in 1695, he taught moral theology at the same university (1695-1702), scholastic theology (1703-10), and biblical sciences and exegesis (1706-1716). Retiring from the university in 1716, he returned to his monastery of Ettal, where he continued teaching theology until his death.
Babenstuber’s principal work is the *Philosophia Thomistica Salisburgensis* (Augsburg 1706, in 4 volumes), in which, following the then-current arrangement of Aristotle’s works, he expounds, without great originality, integral Thomism. In his *Ethica supernaturalis Salisburgensis* (Augsburg 1712), he advocates probabilism in the sense of Laymann, Busenbaum, and others.
Giovanni Müller