Jakob Zukrigl was an Austrian-German Catholic theologian who was born in the Moravian

Moravia

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 village of Gross-Olkowitz. He was a prominent supporter of the philosophical teachings of Anton Günther

Anton Günther

Anton Günther was an Austrian Roman Catholic philosopher whose work was condemned by the church as heretical tritheism.-Biography:...

 (1783-1863).

Following his ordination

Ordination

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 in 1831, he worked as a chaplain

Chaplain

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 in the town of Laa

Laa an der Thaya

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. Later he served as a chaplain in Hainburg

Hainburg an der Donau

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 and afterwards in Vienna

Vienna

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 (1840), where in 1847 he was appointed professor of Christian philosophy

Christian philosophy

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 at the University

University of Vienna

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. Soon afterwards he relocated to the University of Tübingen, where he was a professor of philosophy

Philosophy

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 and apologetics

Apologetics

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from 1848 to 1873. Among his written works are the following:

• Wissenschaftliche Rechtfertigung der christlichen Trinitätslehre (Scholarly Justification concerning the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity), 1846
• Die Nothwendigkeit der christlichen Offenbarungsmoral und ihr philosophischer Standpunkt (The Necessity of Christian Religious Morality and its Philosophical Standpoint), 1850