Johann Nikolaus Weislinger
Johann Nikolauss Weislinger (1691 – 29 August 1755) was a polemical writer. Life He was born at Püttlingen in German Lorraine. After attending the Jesuit high-school at Strasbourg, he became a private tutor in 1711. From 1713 he studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, then took up theology and prepared for ordination as priest under the direction of the Jesuits at Strasburg. Soon after ordination he was appointed parish priest at Waldulm (1726), and in 1730 at Kappelrodeck, but in 1750, on account of severe illness, he was obliged to resign his position. He died at Kappelrodeck in Baden. Works He was a prolific controversialist, widely read in the writings of his opponents. He was said to have had a keen mind and was quick at repartee in his polemical treatises. His language is said to have been often coarse and rough: he sought "in fine modes of speech from Luther's rhetoric", according to his own statement, to outdo the Protestant Protestantism is ...
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