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HERGENROTHER, JOSEPH VON (1824-189o)

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HERGENROTHER, See also:JOSEPH VON (1824-189o) , See also:German theologian, was See also:born at See also:Wurzburg in See also:Bavaria on the 15th of See also:September 1824. He studied at Wurzburg and at See also:Rome. After spending a See also:year as See also:parish See also:priest at Zellingen, near his native See also:city, he went, in 1850, at his See also:bishop's command, to the university of See also:Munich, where he took his degree of See also:doctor of See also:theology the same year, becoming in 1851 Privatdozent, and in 1855 See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:law and See also:history. At Munich he gained the reputation of being one of the most learned theologians on the Ultramontane See also:side of the See also:Infallibility question,which had begun to be discussed; and in 1868 he was sent to Rome to arrange the proceedings of the Vatican See also:Council. He was a stanch supporter of the infallibility See also:dogma; and in 1870 he wrote See also:Anti-See also:Janus, an See also:answer to The See also:Pope and the Council, by " Janus " (Dellinger and J. See also:Friedrich), which made a See also:great sensation at the See also:time. In 1877 he was made See also:prelate of the papal See also:household; he became See also:cardinal See also:deacon in 1879, and was afterwards made See also:curator of the Vatican archives. He died in Rome on the 3rd of See also:October 189o. Hergenrother's first published See also:work was a dissertation on the See also:doctrine of the Trinity according to See also:Gregory Nazianzen (See also:Regensburg, 185o), and from this time onward his See also:literary activity was immense. After several articles and brochures on See also:Hippolytus and the question of the authorship of the Philosophumena, he turned to the study of See also:Photius, See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople, and the history of the See also:Greek See also:schism. For twelve years he was engaged upon this work, the result being his monumental Photius, Patriarch von Constantinopel. Sein Leben, See also:seine Schriften and das griechische Schisma (3 vols., Regensburg, 1867–1869) ; an additional See also:volume (1869) gave, under the See also:title Monumenta Graeca ad Photium .

. . pertinentia, a collection of the unpublished documents on which the work was largely based. Of Hergenrother's other See also:

works, the most important are his history of the Papal States since the Revolution (Der Kirchenstaat seit der franzosischen Revolution, See also:Freiburg i. B., 186o; Fr. trans., See also:Leipzig, 186o), his great work on the relations of See also:church and See also:state (Katholische Kirche and christlicher Staat in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelung and in Beziehung auf Fragen der Gegenwart, 2 parts, Freiburg i. B., 1872; 2nd ed. See also:expanded, 1876; Eng. trans., See also:London, 1876, See also:Baltimore, 1889), and his universal church history (Handbuch der allgemeinen Kirchengeschichte, 3 vols., Freiburg i. B., 1876–188o; 2nd ed., 1879, &c.; 3rd ed., 1884–1886; 4th ed., by See also:Peter See also:Kirsch, 1902, &c.; See also:French trans., See also:Paris, 188o, &c.). He also found time for a while to edit the new edition of Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon (1877), to superintend the publication of See also:part of the Regesta of Pope See also:Leo X. (Freiburg i. B., 1884–1885), and to add two volumes to See also:Hefele's Conciliengeschichte (ib., 1887 and 189o).

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