STAUDENMAIER, FRANZ ANTON. - Theologian, b. 11 Sept. 1800 at Dorzdorf (Württemberg), d. 19 Jan. 1856 at Freiburg im Breisgau.

Having obtained his doctorate in theology at Tübingen with the thesis Geschichte der Bischofswahlen (Tübingen 1830), after his ordination and a year of pastoral life he was professor of apologetics and dogmatics at the University of Giessen (1830), where with Kuhn (v.) he founded the Jahrbücher für Theologie und christliche Philosophie (1834-38), in which he published various articles. He taught the same subjects at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (1837), where with his colleagues he founded the Zeitschrift für Theologie (1829-48); in 1843 he was appointed canon of the Freiburg Cathedral and carried on an intense scientific and religious activity.

After an incomplete essay on Eriugena, Johannes Scotus (Frankfurt 1834), he published a series of theological monographs, in which his speculative assumption manifests itself, at first too personal, then increasingly adhering to the documents of Revelation and of the magisterium of the Church: Encyclopädie der theologischen Wissenschaften als System der gesammten Theologie (Mainz 1834; 2nd ed. 1840, in 2 vols., of which only the 1st appeared); Geist des Christenthums (ibid. 1850) inspired by Chateaubriand's Génie du christianisme; Geist der göttlichen Offenbarung, oder Wissenschaft der Geschichtsprincipien des Christenthums

(Giessen 1837); Die Philosophie des Christenthums oder Metaphysik der heiligen Schrift als Lehre von den göttlichen Ideen und ihrer Entwicklung in der Natur, im Geiste und in der Geschichte (ibid. 1838, remaining at the 1st part, out of four announced); dedicated to Günther (v.); Die christliche Dogmatik (I-II, Freiburg 1844; III, ibid. 1848; IV, ibid. 1852, incomplete); a work rich in personal insights, centered on the idea of the regnum Dei: it is a dogmatics conceived in a predominantly ecclesiological sense. He wrote other important works to refute Kant and Hegel (especially the latter's concept of the philosophy of history), whose fascination he had undergone in his youth.

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BIBL.: F. Lauchert, F. A. S., Freiburg im Breisgau 1901; J. Bellamy, La Théol. cath. au XIXe siècle, 2nd ed., Paris 1904, pp. 39-40; Hutter, IV, coll. 927-31; E. Amann, s. v. in DThC, XIV, II, coll. 2579-80; I. Allievi, Disegno di stor. della teol., Turin 1939, pp. 397-99; F. Schnabel, Stor. religiosa della Germania nell'Ottocento, Italian trans., Milan 1944, pp. 71, 72, 89; E. Hocedez, Histoire de la théologie au XIXe siècle, II, Brussels-Paris 1952, pp. 299-301.

Antonio Piolanti

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