Martin Boos
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Martin Boos(25 December 1762 – 29 August 1825) was a GermanRoman Catholictheologian.
Life
[edit]He was born at Huttenried inBavaria.Orphaned at the age of four, he was reared by an uncle atAugsburg,who finally sent him to theUniversity of Dillingen,where he studied underSailer,Zimmer, and Weber. There he laid the foundation of the modest piety by which his whole life was distinguished.[1]He had followed the extreme practices ofasceticismas apenanceforsin,all to no avail, as he believed, and then developed a doctrine of salvation by faith which came very near to pureLutheranism.This he preached with great effect.
After serving as priest in several Bavarian towns, he was driven from Bavaria by the opposition of the ecclesiastical authorities and other priests. He made his way in 1799 toLinzinAustria,where he was welcomed by Bishop Gall, and set to work first atLeondingand then atWaldneukirchen,becoming in 1806 pastor atGallneukirchen.Hispietisticmovement won considerable way among the Catholic laity, and even attracted some fifty or sixty priests.[1]
The death of Gall and other powerful friends, however, exposed him to bitter enmity and persecution from about 1812, and he had to answer endless accusations in theconsistorial courts.His enemies followed him when he returned to Bavaria, but in 1817 thePrussiangovernment appointed him to a professorship atDüsseldorf,and in 1819 gave him the pastorate atSaynnearNeuwied.He died in 1825.[1]
His autobiography was edited byJohannes Gossner,Leipzig, 1831, Eng. transl., London, 1836, who also issued two volumes of his sermons Berlin, 1830.
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[edit]- ^abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Boos, Martin".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 238.This cites hisLifebyJ. Gossner(1831).
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