Ignaz Walter von Sonnenberg
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Ignaz Walter von Sonnenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 July 1612 |
| Died | 20 July 1680 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Jesuit missionary |
Ignaz Walter von Sonnenberg (13 July 1612, Lucerne – 20 July 1680, Fuzhou, China) was a Swiss Jesuit missionary who worked in the Philippines and China during the seventeenth century.
He was the son of Jakob von Sonnenberg and Catharina Amrhyn, brother of Karl Emanuel von Sonnenberg, and half-brother of Alphons von Sonnenberg and Franz von Sonnenberg.
Sonnenberg attended the Jesuit college in Lucerne, then entered the novitiate at Landsberg in Bavaria in 1628. He studied classical subjects in Augsburg (1630–1631), philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt (1631–1634), and theology there as well (1637–1641). Between these periods, he worked as a grammar teacher and educator in Dillingen (1634–1636) and Burghausen (1636–1637), both in Bavaria. He was ordained at Eichstätt (Bavaria) in 1641.[1]
