Joseph Ambrose Stapf (1785, in Fließ – 1844, in

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) was an Austrian

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He studied theology at

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, and in 1823 was named professor of

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and

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

at the seminary in Brixen.

Works

* ''Theologia moralis in compendium redacta'' (1827–30) * ''Epitome theologiæ moralis publicis prælectionibus accommodata'' (1832) * ''Erziehungslehre im Geiste der katholischen Kirche'' (1832) * ''Expositio casuum reservatorum in diocesi Brixinensi'' (1836) * ''Der hl. Vincentius von Paul, dargestellt in seinem Leben und Wirken'' (1837) * ''Die christliche Sittenlehre'' (1848–49)

References

1785 births 1844 deaths 19th-century Austrian Roman Catholic theologians People from Landeck District {{RC-bio-stub