Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
PERGMAYR, JOSEPH. - Jesuit, preacher and missionary, born at Häblkofen (diocese of Regensburg) on Feb. 4, 1713, died in Munich on March 23, 1765.
Having entered the Society of Jesus on Sept. 7, 1733, he was a professor of humanities and rhetoric and a renowned preacher
(from W. H. Schurhardt, Die Meister des grossen Frieses von Pergamon, Berlin-Leipzig 1911, rev. I spp.) PERGAMO - View of the hill of P., with the ruins of the great altar of the Acropolis.in Munich. After his death, his spiritual instructions were published, based on writings preserved by religious women who had listened to him, especially the Visitation nuns, of whom he had been spiritual director for 12 years: Gründliche Erwägungen ewiger Wahrheiten (Augsburg 1778). The great success achieved by this work led to the prompt publication of various other equally well-received writings, among which: Geistliche Grundsätze und verschiedene Unterrichten, welche in und ausser den gewöhnlichen Exercitiens... gebraucht werden können (ibid. 1778); and Drei Schritten zur wahren und vollkommenen Liebe Gottes (ibid. 1778), his most famous and widespread work. All of them, moreover, had many editions and even modern translations. He also composed a life of Fr. F. Jenningen (Ingolstadt 1763) and of St. Jane Frances de Chantal (Munich 1768).
BIBL.: Sommervogel, VI, pp. 527-32; D. Duhr, Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge, IV, II, Munich-Regensburg 1928, pp. 125-26.
Ignazio Iparraguire
