Franz Neumayr
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Franz Neumayr (17 January 1697 – 1 May 1765) was a German
Life
He was born at
From 1752 to 1763 he preached at
Works
His works, as enumerated in
Some of his Latin plays were republished in two collections:
- Theatrum Asceticum, sive Meditationes Sacrae in Theatro Congregationis Latinae de B. V. Mariae, ab Angelo Salutatae exhibitae Monachi verno jejunii tempore ab anno 1739 usque ad annum 1747 (871 pp., Ingolstadt and Augsburg, 1747, 5 editions) contains dramatic renderings of such subjects as the conversion of St. Augustine, devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the evil of sin, the fear of God, Divine Mercy and Love.
- Theatrum Politicum sive Tragoediae ad commendationem Virtutis et Vitiorum detestationem, etc. (Augshurg and Ingolstadt, 1760, 518 pp.) contains episodes from the lives of Dicorus, Tobias, and Sara, etc. These plays, besides numerous others were published also in separate booklets.
On his ascetical writings probably the most famous and most valuable is the little book Idea Theologiae Asceticae, Scientiam Sanctorum exhibens, a posthumous work first published in Rome by Alexander Monaldi in 1839. It has gone through five editions in Latin and has been translated into various languages. The English edition bears the title: The Science of the Spiritual Life.
He wrote also several works in defence of probabilism.
Of his literary treatises, the Idea Rhetorices deals with the precepts and use of rhetoric; Idea Poesis is a similar volume on poetry and in the title he says of the art, "Ad Ingeniorum Culturam, Animorum Oblectationem ac Morum Doctrinam".[1]
References
- ^ Garesché, Edward Francis (1911). . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Franz Neumayr". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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