Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ignaz Philipp Dengel

Ignaz Philipp Dengel was born the son of a private tutor and privateer, graduated from grammar school in Innsbruck in 1892, then began his studies at the University of Innsbruck, first at the Faculty of Law and in 1893 switched to the Faculty of Philosophy to study History, Geography and German Studies. At the end of 1892, he was accepted as a trainee at Austria Innsbruck. In the summer semester of 1894, he continued his studies in Berlin, where he was accepted into the Suevia Berlin student fraternity.

In 1895, Ignaz Philipp Dengel returned to Innsbruck and completed his studies in 1899 with a dissertation under Ludwig Pastor Freiherr von Campersfelden (Dr. phil. 1899). In 1900, he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools in the above subjects.

In 1905, Ignaz Philipp Dengel also habilitated under Pastor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck for modern history. He was appointed university professor in 1909. During the First World War, he was conscripted into the k. u. k.

In 1929, Ignaz Philipp Dengel succeeded Pastor as director of the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome.

After the occupation of Austria in 1938, he was forced to retire. During the war, he is one of the co-founders of the K.Ö.H.V. Alpinia Innsbruck, the association that was illegally founded during the war. Ignaz Philipp Dengel worked throughout the war to ensure that the fraternities could be re-established after the war.

On May 13, 1945, the first meeting with representatives of the Innsbruck CV took place in his apartment, at which the suburban president of the ÖCV, Gerald Grinschgl, who had also been illegally elected during the war, is asked to continue as suburban president and build up the ÖCV.