Josip Weissgerber

Josip Weissgerber (4 May 1922 – 18 April 1985), was a Croatian Jesuit, philosopher, writer and missionary.

[1] Born in Slavonian town Vinkovci, Weissgerber attended the classical gymnasium in Travnik after which he graduated theology, psychology, germanistics, anglistics and French Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb.

He obtained a doctorate in psychology (1970) and philosophy (1972) at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

List of published works: His scientific articles in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, communicology and theology were published in Obnovljeni Život, Bogoslovska smotra and Crkva u svijetu.

In 1981 he went in the mission in Zambia where he lectured anthropology, history of the contemporary philosophy, onthology and cosmology at the Mpima Seminary.