Canisianum Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria)
| Canisianum Innsbruck | |||||||||
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| City: | Innsbruck | ||||||||
| Country: | Austria | ||||||||
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| Type: | University | ||||||||
| Founded: | 1858 | ||||||||
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| Address: | Tschurtschenthalerstrasse, 7 | ||||||||
| City: | Innsbruck | ||||||||
| Postal code: | A-6020 | ||||||||
| Country: | Austria | ||||||||
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| www.canisianum.at | |||||||||
Canisianum Innsbruck is a Jesuit higher education institution in Innsbruck, Austria. It was founded in 1858. It is named after St. Peter Canisius, a 16th century Dutch Jesuit who is a doctor of the church and fought against the spread of Protestantism in Germany and central Europe.
Contact Information
Tschurtschenthalerstrasse, 7; A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
History
The Canisianum is one of many Jesuit seminaries worldwide named after Saint Peter Canisius and was built in 1910-1911 under Rector, or Regens, Michael Hofmann, to replace the previous Nicolaihaus seminary, which had been outgrown. During World War I it also accommodated from 1915 to 1919 the students of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. On 21 November 1938 it was shut down by the National Socialists and did not reopen until October 1945.
