- Eusebius Amort
Eusebius Amort (
November 15 ,1692 -February 5 ,1775 ) was a GermanRoman Catholic theologian.Life
Amort was born at Bibermuhle, near
Tolz , in UpperBavaria . He studied atMunich , and at an early age joined theCanons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology andphilosophy .In 1733 he went toRome as theologian to CardinalNiccolo Maria Lercari (d. 1757).He returned to Polling in 1735 and devoted the rest of his life to the revival of learning in Bavaria. He died at Polling in 1775.
Works
Amort, who had the reputation of being the most learned man of his age, was a voluminous writer on every conceivable subject, from
poetry toastronomy , from dogmatic theology tomysticism . His best known works are:*A manual of theology in 4 vols, "Theologia eclectica, moralis et scholastica" (Augsburg, 1752; revised by
Pope Benedict XIV for the 1753 edition published at Bologna)
*A defence of Catholic doctrine, entitled "Demonstratio critica religionis Catholicae" (Augsburg, 1751)
*A work on indulgences, which has often been criticized byProtestant writers, "De Origine, Progressu, Valore, et Fructu Indulgentiorum" (Augsburg, 1735)
*A treatise on mysticism, "De Revelationibus et Visionibus, etc." (2 vols, 1744)
*The astronomical work "Nova philosophiae planetarum et artis criticae systemata" (Nuremberg, 1723).The list of his other works, including his three erudite contributions to the question of authorship of the "Imitatio Christi", will be found in
C. Toussaint 's scholarly article inAlfred Vacant 's "Dictionnaire de theologie" (1900, cols 1115-1117).References
*1911
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