Retired University Professor DDr. Walter Schaupp
Retired university professor
Born in 1954 in Kirchberg/Wagram, Lower Austria.
Studied medicine in Innsbruck and Vienna, followed by one year as a junior doctor at the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Linz, Upper Austria.
Studied Catholic theology in Vienna and Rome, graduating with a degree in dogmatic theology - then ordained a priest (Archdiocese of Vienna) and worked for several years as a chaplain for theology students in Vienna.
1993 Doctorate in moral theology at the University of Vienna on the ethics of medical research on humans (Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association); seven years teaching moral theology at the Religious Education Academy of the Archdiocese of Vienna; lecturer for the Vienna Medical Association.
1998-2003 assistant at the Department of Moral Theology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau - 2002 habilitation on the tense relationship between the just and the good based on the thinking of the Canadian social philosopher Charles Taylor.
2003 Appointment to the Chair of Moral Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Karl Franzens University of Graz; since then Professor of Moral Theology in Graz.
Main areas of work: medical and bioethical issues, ethics of the good life, questions of the Christian way of life in a pluralistic society.
Member of the ethics committee of Eurotransplant, the ethics committee and the ethics committee at Graz University Hospital, the bioethics commission at the Federal Chancellery, the provincial ethics committee of the Brothers of Mercy Austria; teaches as part of the ethics curriculum at the Medical University of Graz.