Ignaz seipel biography of mahatma gandhi

Former Austrian Chancellor (1876–1932)

Ignaz Seipel (19 July 1876 – 2 August 1932) was an Austrian Catholic priest and conservative politician, who served as the Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic twice during the 1920s and leader of the Christian Social Party.

He is considered the most prominent statesman of the Austrian right in the interwar period.

Ignaz seipel biography of mahatma gandhi

Born into a modest bourgeois family, Seipel grew up in the town of Meidling, near Vienna, where he completed his studies before enrolling at the University of Vienna. He studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1899.

After serving in a rural parish, he returned to the imperial capital to pursue a doctorate. In 1908, he became an assistant professor of moral theology at the University of Vienna, and a year later, a full professor of the same discipline at the University of Salzburg, where he taught for the next eight years.

Seipel took an interest in social, educational, and economic issues and beca