- Tilman Pesch
Tilman Pesch (b. at
Cologne ,1 February 1836 ; d. at Valkenburg, Limburg, the Netherlands,18 October 1899 ) was a GermanJesuit philosopher.Life
He became a Jesuit on 15 October, 1852, and made his
novitiate atFriedrichsburg nearMünster ; he studied classics two years atPaderborn , philosophy two years atBonn ; taught four years atFeldkirch , Switzerland; studied theology one year at Paderborn and three years atMaria-Laach , after which he made his third year of novitiate at Paderborn. He then taught philosophy at Maria-Laach (1867-69). From 1870 to 1876 he worked in the ministry, and again taught philosophy eight years (1876-84), at theCastle of Bleijenbeek in Afferden.Pesch was tireless as a missionary in Germany. He was often arrested under the charge of being a Jesuit. Pesch taught the best in
scholasticism , but appreciated what was good in other systems of philosophy. His Latin writing contain the latest results of natural science applied to the illustration of truth by scholastic methods.Works
The literary activity of Pesch began in 1876. He contributed to "Philosophia Licensis"; "Institutiones philosophiæ naturalis" (1880); "Institutiones logicales" (1888); "Institutiones psychologicæ" (1896-98). The last fifteen years of his life were devoted entirely to writing and to the ministry. Treatises were "Weltphänomenon" (1881); "Welträtsel" (1884), "Seele und Lieb" (1893), and "Christliche Lebensphilosophie" (1895). The last work reached its fourth edition with three years. Besides scholarly writing, he published popular philosophical and Apologetic articles and pamphlets. The most important of these were the articles published in the "Germanica" above the pseudonym "Gottlieb"; they were later arranged in two volumes, "Briefe aus Hamburg" (1883), and "Der Krach von Wittenburg" (1889), arguing against common criticisms of the Catholic Church.
His most popular book was "Das Religiöse Leben", of which thirteen large editions appeared.
References
*Mitteilungen aus der deutschen Provinz (Roermond), n. 8, 721
*Thoelen, Menologium oder Lebensbilder aus der Geschicte der deutschen Ordensprovinz der Gesellschaft Jesu (Roermond, 1901), 602.External links
*1913CE|Tilman Pesch
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