Franz Xaver Oberleitner
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- Orientalist
- Benedictine theologian
- Archivist
Franz Xaver Oberleitner | |
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| Born | 12 January 1789 |
| Died | 10 June 1832 (aged 43) Vienna, Austria |
| Other names | Andreas Oberleitner |
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Franz Xaver Oberleitner (12 January 1789 – 10 June 1832) was an Austrian theologian and orientalist.[1] Oberleitner served as the Dean of The University of Vienna's Faculty of Catholic Theology for a period of three separate years, as the Director of Theology and as the University Archivist.[2]
His text books on his specialist languages were considerable achievements which remained valued tools for scholars long after his death on account of their practical structures.[3]
Franz Xaver Oberleitner is identified in some sources as "Andreas Oberleitner". This is the name given in Volume 24 of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (1886), a work of reference on which much subsequent reliance is placed. The ADB entry names Andreas Leitner and then provides two paragraphs on his career and published output as an orientalist.[3]
Sources closer in time and place to Oberleitner himself, including Volume 20 of the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (1869) state that there were two brothers involved. Andreas Oberleitner was born in 1786, and as a young man acquired a certain notability in Vienna as a musician (instrumentalist), although by the 1860s it was not known whether or not he was still alive. Oberleitner was born in 1789.[2] He was the theologian / orientalist according to these sources. It appears that conflation of the two brothers' names had not started in 1832, which is when Oberleitner died.[2][a]
