Ignaz Feigerle (7 April 1795 in Biskupstwo, Mähren – 27 September 1863 in Ochsenburg) was a Catholic theologian and

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of the Diocese of Sankt Pōlten.

Life

Feigerle studied at

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in Vienna. In 1825 he became Professor for

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at the Palacký University of Olomouc. In 1829 he moved to the

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, where he became

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in 1846. In 1851 he became Bishop of St. Pölten. In 1858 he founded ''Hippolytus'', a scholarly journal, which was edited by Matthäus Binder and Anton Kerschbaumer.

Bibliography

* * * Anton Kerschbaumer: ''Bischof Feigerle, nach dem Leben geschildert'', Wien, 1864
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feigerle, Ignaz 1795 births 1863 deaths 19th-century Austrian Roman Catholic theologians Roman Catholic bishops of Sankt Pölten 19th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests