BABENSTUBER, LUDWIG. - Benedictine, b. at Deining (Upper Bavaria) in 1660, d. at Ettal in 1726. Having made his profession in 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. After obtaining his doctorate in theology at Salzburg in 1695, he taught at the same university moral theology (1695–1702), scholastic theology (1703–10), and biblical studies and exegesis (1706–1716). Having withdrawn from the university in 1716, he went to his monastery at Ettal, where he continued teaching theology until his death.
B.’s principal work is the Philosophia Thomistica Salisburgensis (Augusta 1706, in 4 volumes), in which, following the arrangement then in use for the works of Aristotle, he expounds, without great originality, integral Thomism. In his Ethica supernaturalis Salisburgensis (Augusta 1712), he advocates probabilism in the sense of Laymann, Busenbaum, etc.
Giovanni Müller