Johannes von Kuhn

With Franz Anton Staudenmaier he occupied the foremost rank among the speculative dogmatists of the Catholic Tübingen school.

He pursued his classical studies at Schwäbisch Gmünd, Ellwangen, and Rottweil, and courses in philosophy and theology from 1825 to 1830 at Tübingen; entered the seminary at Rottenburg in the autumn of 1830, and was there ordained on 14 September 1831.

Ein Versuch das wissenschaftliche Fundament der Philosophie historisch zu erörtern (Mainz, 1834).

During the years he taught at Giessen, his literary activity in the domain of New Testament studies resulted in a series of articles which he published in the Jahrbücher für Theologie und christliche Philosophie (Frankfurt, 1834-6), edited by him and by his colleagues, Johann Nepomuk Locherer, Johann Baptist Lüft, and Franz Anton Staudenmaier.

The following parts appeared: Kuhn had already outlined his work in the paper "Über Princip und methode der speculativen Theologie" (University programme, Tübingen, 1840).

On the former question he wrote "Die Historisch-politischen Blätter über eine freie katholische Universität Deutschlands und die Freiheit der Wissenschaft" (Tübingen, 1863); on the latter he wrote "Das Natürliche und das Übernatürliche" (Tübingen, 1864).

It was especially against these two works that Kuhn directed his last important book, "Die christliche Lehre von der goettlichen Gnade.