Josip Weissgerber (4 May 1922 – 18 April 1985), was a Croatian

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, philosopher, writer and missionary.

Education

Weissgerber attended the

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in Travnik after which he graduated theology, psychology, germanistics,

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and

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at the

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of the University of Zagreb. He obtained a doctorate in psychology (1970) and philosophy (1972) at the

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in Belgium.

Work

Weissberger lectured

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, anthropology,

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and theodicy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology as well as experimental psychology at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb. He also held marriage advising seminaries. List of published works: * ''Zvona velike subote'' (''The Bells of the Holy Saturday''; Biography of the

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; translated to

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in 1989). Re-published as ''Uskrsna zvona'' (Easter Bells)Uskrsna zvona
Archive.org. Access date 24 April 2020. * ''U svjetlu metahistorije: razmišljanja za akademičare nedjeljom u 11 sati'' (works in metahistory) * ''Osnovni zakon svemira'' (''The fundamental principle of the universe'', 1967) * ''Psihološki aspekti odgojnih sukoba'' (''Psychological aspects of the upbringing conflicts'', 1969) * ''Psihologija'' (''Psychology'', 1972) * ''Sir Thomas More – Engleski Sokrat'' (''

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– The English Socrates'', 1974) * ''Načinimo čovjeka'' (''Let's make a human'') * ''Antropologija: filozofija o čovjeku'' ('' Anthropology: Philosophy of the human'') * ''Razvojna pogojenost religioznosti'' (in Slovene) * ''Studije za obitelj'' (''Family studies'', 1978) His scientific articles in psychology, anthropology, philosophy,

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and theology were published in ''Obnovljeni život'', '' Bogoslovska smotra'' and ''Crkva u svijetu''. He was a missionary in England, pastoral worker in Germany and Belgium. In 1981 he went in the mission in Zambia where he lectured anthropology, history of the

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, onthology and cosmology at the University of Mpima. He was a missionary in Zaire as well.

References

Entry
in the

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* Lončarević, Vladimir
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