Tanner, Adam#
b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), April 14, 1572, d. Unken (Salzburg), May 25, 1632, dogmatician, Jesuit; was the most important German-speaking theologian of the Counter-Reformation, taught at Munich, Ingolstadt, Prague and Vienna. Fought against witch trials, protagonist of the religious Conference in Regensburg (1601).
Works#
Dioptra fidei, 1617; Universa theologia scholastica, 4 vols., 1626-1627.