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AMORT, EUSEBIUS (1692-1775)

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AMORT, See also:EUSEBIUS (1692-1775) , See also:German See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born at Bibermuhle, near TOlz, in Upper See also:Bavaria, on the 15th of See also:November 1692. He studied at See also:Munich, and at an See also:early See also:age joined the Canons See also:Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught See also:theology and See also:philosophy. In 1733 he went to See also:Rome as theologian to See also:Cardinal Niccolo Maria Lercari (d. 1757). He returned to Polling in 1735 and devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to the revival of learning in Bavaria. He died at Polling on the 5th of See also:February 1775. Amort, who had the reputation of being the most learned See also:man of his age, was a voluminous writer on every conceivable subject, from See also:poetry to See also:astronomy, from dogmatic theology to See also:mysticism. His best known See also:works are: a See also:manual of theology in 4 vols., Theologia eclectica, moralis et scholastica (See also:Augsburg, 1752; revised by See also:Benedict XIV. for the 1753 edition published at See also:Bologna); a See also:defence of Catholic See also:doctrine, entitled Demonstratio critica religionis Catholicae (Augsburg, 1751); a See also:work on indulgences, which has often been criticized by See also:Protestant writers, De Origine, Progressu, Valore, et Fructu Indulgentiorum (Augsburg, 1735); a See also:treatise on mysticism, De Revelationibus et Visionibus, &c. (2 vols., 1744); and the astronomical work Nova philosophiae planetarum et artis criticae systemata (See also:Nuremberg, 1723). The See also:list of his other works, including his three erudite contributions to the question of authorship of the Imitatio Christi, will be found in C. See also:Toussaint's scholarly See also:article in A. Vacant's See also:Diet. de theologie (1900, cols.

1115-1117).

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