Joseph Anton Sambuga
Joseph Anton Sambuga was a German Catholic theologian of Italian descent. He was a pious, deeply religious priest and belonged to the school of friend Johann Michael Sailer.Biography
He was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg on 9 June; 1752. His parents were Italian immigrants who had come from the neighbourhood of Como. He went to school at Mannheim and to the monastic school of the Augustinians at Wiesloch before entering the University of Heidelberg.
In 1770 family affairs took him to Italy, where he finished his theological studies and was ordained priest at Como on 2 April 1774. After he had served at Como for a while as chaplain at the hospital, he returned to Germany. In 1775 he was appointed as chaplain at Helmsheim, in 1778 as chaplain and in 1783 as court preacher at Mannheim, and in 1785 as parish priest at Herrnsheim.
In 1797 Ssambuga was again called to the Court at Mannheim as teacher of religion to Prince Louis, the oldest son of Duke Maximilian Joseph. When Maximilian Joseph went to live at Munich as Elector of Bavaria, Sambuga followed the Court to that city. He later taught religion also to the younger children of the Elector. He died at Nymphenburg near the Bavarian capital MunichWorks
Among his writings are noted:
- "Schutzrede für den ehelosen Stand der Geistlichen" ;
- "Ueber den Philosophismus, welcher unser Zeitalter bedroht" ;
- "Ueber die Nothwendigkeit der Besserung, als Rücksprache mit seinem Zeitalter" ; "Untersuchung über das Wesen der Kirche" ;
- "Der Priester am Altare" ; *"Auserlesene Briefe", ed. by Karl Klein ;
- "Zweite Sammlung", ed. by Franz Stapf ; "Predigten auf Sonn-und Festtage", ed. by K. Klein ;
- "Reden und Aufsätze", collected and ed. by J. B. SchmitterHug.
