- TE1369
- Baccalaureate, Diploma
- St. Catherine
- Semester II
- Fr.
- Viliam Štefan
- Dóci O.P.
- Professore Aggregato
- Section: Dogmatic and Fundamental
Academic degrees earned
Mgr. theol., Comenius University Bratislava
Mag. phil., University of Vienna
Dr. theol., University of Vienna
Courses at the Angelicum
- dS3705
- Licentiate
- Dogmatic and Fundamental, Thomistic
- Semester II
Brief biography
Since 2015 Viliam Štefan Dóci has been President of the Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers, Director of the journals Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum and Dominican History Newsletter, and also chair of the editorial boards of Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica and of Dissertationes Historicae. He has been teaching at the Faculty of Theology at PUST since 2017/18. Since 2022, he has also been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Theology of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna.
Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest
Church History
History of the Order of Preachers
History of studies and preaching in the Dominican Order
Catholic Enlightenment
Associations and Memberships
Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
Verba Theologica
Current research/writing projects
Philosophical-theological training and scholarly activity of the Friars Preachers in Vienna in the 17th–18th centuries
Select Publications
Die seelsorgliche Tätigkeit der Kaschauer Predigerbrüder. Ein Dominikanerkonvent im Ambiente von Pfarrei, Stadt und Staat im 18. Jahrhundert (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens 23, Berlin/Boston 2018).
Bibelstudium und Predigt im Dominikanerorden. Geschichte, Ideal, Praxis (Dissertationes Historicae 36, Roma 2019) (co-editor: Thomas Prügl).
I Domenicani e la Russia (Dissertationes Historicae 37, Roma 2019) (co-editor: Hyacinthe Destivelle OP).
«…das lehret uns der Catholische allein seeligmachende Glaub…» Theology in the Sermons of Austrian and Hungarian Dominicans in the 18th Century, in Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 115 (2020), pp. 204 -234.
Religion, Tugend und Pflicht. Zur Morallehre in Predigten der österreichisch-ungarischen Dominikaner im 18. Jahrhundert, in Kristin Eichhorn and Lothar van Laak (ed.), Kulturen der Moral. Beiträge zur DGEJ-Jahrestagung 2018 in Paderborn, Hamburg 2021, pp. 85 -100.
Wer darf einen kriminellen Dominikaner richten? Eine Studie zur Kontroverse um das privilegium fori in Bezug auf das crimen laesae majestatis, in Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 129/2 (2021), pp. 308 -329.
Fra trionfi e sconfitte: la politica della santità dell’Ordine dei Predicatori (Dissertationes Historicae 39, Roma 2021) (co-editor: Gianni Festa OP).
In search of a better life: The travels of Gregorius Pogrányi OP, in Benjamin Hazard (ed.), Path to Salvation. Temporal and Spiritual Journeys by the Mendicant Orders, c.1370 -1740, Lausanne et al. 2023, pp. 193-219.
Two Enlightenment Dominicans among the Freemasons in Eighteenth-Century Vienna, in Catholic Historical Review 109/3 (2023), pp. 486-514.
Curriculum Vitae
