Ignaz Wurz (December 28, 1731 – August 28 or 29, 1784) was an Austrian Jesuit priest who taught rhetoric and published several dramas and textbooks.
He was born in Wiener Neustadt,[1] entered the Jesuit order in Vienna in 1747 at the age of 16, and soon moved to Graz to study philosophy, mathematics and theology.
The sermon he preached on the coronation day of Emperor Joseph II (April 3, 1764) was subsequently printed.
It brought Wurz to the attention of university administrators in Vienna and led to his appointed as professor of "sacred eloquence" at the University of Vienna's theology department.
Writing in 1850, Jakob Fluck ranked Wurz as the best teacher of Homiletics in the eighteenth century.