NEUMAYR, FRANZ. - Jesuit, preacher and spiritual writer, b. in Munich on 17 Jan. 1697, d. in Augsburg on 1 May 1765. A professor of belles-lettres and director of the great Latin Congregation of Munich, from 1752 he was preacher at Augsburg Cathedral with extraordinary success, while he employed his artistic talent in composing scenes and educational dramas of classical beauty, and his theological and ascetical depth in the service of the faith against the Lutherans and for the edification and perfection of the faithful.

Of his numerous works (112), perhaps the most valuable for vigor and topicality of subject and form are the series of questions under the title Frag. ob ("Ask: Why?", a series of pamphlets, printed in Augsburg, Munich, Ingolstadt, collected in 2 vols. (Munich-Ingolstadt 1757-60), followed by another 4 vols. (ibid. 1763-64), in which N. treats the problems that arise between Lutherans and Catholics; Micae evangelicae (Munich 1749); Katholisches Kirchenjahr (ibid. 1760); Kern des Christentums (Augsburg 1762); Idea theologiae asceticae, published posthumously (ibid. 1781) and translated into various languages (Italian trans., Rome 1845).

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, V, coll. 1654-83; B. Duhr, Gesch. der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge, IV, II, Munich-Regensburg 1928, p. 126 ff.; 178 ff. (see index); E. Amann, s. v. in DThC, XI, coll. 323-25.

Arnaldo M. Lanz

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