Johann Nepomuk Ehrlich

Who was Johann Nepomuk Ehrlich?

Johann Nepomuk Ehrlich was an Austrian theologian and philosopher born in Vienna.

He initially studied philosophy in Krems, and from 1829 to 1834 studied philosophy and theology at the University of Vienna. In 1834 he received his ordination, and from 1836 taught classes in philosophy, history and literature at the gymnasium in Krems.

In 1850 he obtained the theological doctorate in Tübingen, and during the same year was appointed professor of moral theology in Graz. Two years later he relocated to the University of Prague as a professor of moral theology, where in 1856 he became a professor of fundamental theology.

In 1827, while still a teenager, Ehrlich joined the Piarists. In 1853 he became an associate member of the Bohemian Society of Sciences. Among his written works in theology and philosophy are the following:

Leitfaden der Metaphysik, 1841

Metaphysik als rationale Ontologie, 1841

Lehre von der Bestimmung der Menschen als rationale Teleologie, 1842

Das Christentum und die Religionen des Morgenlandes, 1843