Dollfuss
An Austrian Patriot
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Dollfuss: An Austrian Patriot was written by neo-Thomist professor Fr. Johannes Messner based upon his close association and collaboration with Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria. Messner's account of Dollfuss's life provides a brief sketch of biographical details, but, more importantly, illustrates Dollfuss's social vision and provides an account of his attempt to structure Austrian social and economic life along the lines determined by Quadragesimo Anno. As a leading exponent of Catholic Social Doctrine as expressed in the Austrian tradition established by Karl von Vogelsang, Messner is uniquely qualified to highlight the reforms initiated by Dollfuss as they relate to the traditional social vision of the Church.
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Foreword —Dr. Alice von Hildebrand |
About the Author(s)
Fr. Johannes Messner
Fr. Messner studied with the theological faculty of Bressanone (1910–1914), and upon his ordination served in Tyrol as parish priest for six years, following which he embarked on a four year (1920–1924) course of study of political economy and sociology at Munich, during which he was also studying law at Innsbruck. His studies led him to degrees in law (1922) and public economy (1924).
Alongside the German Jesuits Gustav Gundlach and Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Messner became the principle representative of the “realist” school of Christian social doctrine in Austria (though he was not, strictly speaking, a Solidarist). From 1925 to 1933 Messner was editor-in-chief of a weekly on culture, politics, and political economy, Das Neue Reich (The New Reign), and from 1936 to 1938 he published Monatsschrift für Kultur und Politik (Monthly of Culture and Politics). In 1927 Messner obtained teaching faculties at the University of Salzburg. His first work, Die soziale Frage (The Social Question), which had run to four editions by 1934, exercised an influence on the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who wanted to transform state and society according to the spirit of Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno of 1931, and Messner became one of the counselors for the corporative reconstruction of the Austrian state. In 1935 he was made Extraordinary Professor of Ethics And Social Science at the University of Vienna. After a period abroad, during the Nazi rule over Austria, Messner served again at his post in Vienna, becoming an ordinary Professor in 1956 and remaining so until 1962. He also occupied a chair of Christian social doctrine at Münster (founded by Franz Hitze in 1893) from 1947 to 1949.
His other published works include berufständische Ordnung (The Corporative Order) and Das Naturrecht (The Natural Law). He contributed thirteen articles to the famous Staatslexikon (Political Dictionary) in 1931. By 1980 he had published 27 monographs and roughly 400 essays or reviews. He was honored with collections of commemorative writings on his 70th, 80th, 85th, and 90th birthdays, and was awarded five honorary degrees, from the Universities of Vienna, Fribourg, Salzburg, Innsbruck, and the Louvain. He became a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1962.
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Dr. von Hildebrand was born in Brussels, Belgium. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Fordham University. She was the wife of the famous philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand. She is the author of Introduction to Philosophy and collaborated with her husband in the writing of Situation Ethics, Graven Images, and The Art of Living. In 1989 Sophia Institute Press published her By Love Refined. She has lectured extensively and is Professor Emerita at Hunter College of the City of New York.
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John Zmirak received his B.A. from Yale University in 1986, then his M.F.A. in screenwriting and fiction and his Ph.D. in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. His focus was the English Renaissance, and the novels of Walker Percy. He taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has sold several screenplays to director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & Generals and Gettysburg). He was elected alternate delegate to the 1996 Republican Convention, representing Pat Buchanan. He has been Press Secretary to pro-life Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, and a reporter and editor at Success magazine and Investor’s Business Daily, among other publications. His essays, poems, and other works have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, FrontPage Magazine, The American Conservative, The South Carolina Review, The Atlantic, Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review, The New Republic, Commonweal, and the National Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed to American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000-2004 he served as senior editor of Faith & Family Magazine and a reporter at the National Catholic Register, and he remains a contributing editor at Godspy.com and The American Conservative. Dr. Zmirak remains the editor-in-chief of the series of college guides published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute, including Choosing the Right College and All American Colleges. His published works include Wilhelm Röpke; The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living; The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song; and The Grand Inquisitor, a blank-verse graphic novel.
