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KETTELER, WILHELM See also:EMMANUEL, See also:BARON VON (1811-1877) , See also:German theologian and politician, was See also:born at Harkotten, in See also:Bavaria, on the 25th of See also:December 1811. He studied See also:theology at See also:Gottingen, See also:Berlin, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Munich, and was ordained See also:priest in 1844. He resolved to consecrate his See also:life to maintaining the cause of the freedom of the See also:Church from the See also:control of the See also:State. This brought him into collision with the See also:civil See also:power, an attitude which he maintained throughout a stormy and eventful life. Ketteler was rather a See also:man of See also:action than a See also:scholar, and he first distinguished himself as one of the deputies of the See also:Frankfort See also:National See also:Assembly, a position to which he was elected in 1848, and in which he soon became noted for his decision, foresight, See also:energy and eloquence. In 185o he was made See also:bishop of See also:Mainz, by See also:order of the Vatican, in preference to the celebrated See also:Professor See also:Leopold See also:Schmidt, of See also:Giessen, whose Liberal sentiments were not agreeable to the Papal party. When elected, Ketteler refused to allow the students of theology in his See also:diocese to attend lectures at Giessen, and ultimately founded an opposition See also:seminary in the diocese of Mainz itself. He also founded orders of School See also:Brothers and School Sisters, to See also:work in the various educational agencies he had called into existence, and he laboured to See also:institute orphanages and See also:rescue homes. In 1858 he threw down the See also:gauntlet against the State in his pamphlet on the rights of the See also:Catholic Church in See also:Germany. In 1863 he adopted See also:Lassalle's Socialistic views, and published his See also:Die Arbeitfrage and das Christenthum. When the question of papal See also:infallibility arose, he opposed the promulgation of the See also:dogma on the ground that such promulgation was inopportune. But he was not resolute in his opposition.

The opponents of the dogma complained at the very outset that he was wavering, See also:

half converted by his hosts, the members of the German See also:College at See also:Rome, and further influenced by his own misgivings. He soon deserted his See also:anti-Infallibilist colleagues, and submitted to the decrees in See also:August 1870. He was the warmest opponent of the State in the Kulturkampf provoked by See also:Prince See also:Bismarck after the publication of the Vatican decrees, and was largely instrumental in compelling that statesman to retract the See also:pledge he had rashly given, never to " go to See also:Canossa." To such an extent did Bishop von Ketteler carry his opposition, that in 1874 he forbade his See also:clergy to take See also:part in celebrating the anniversary of the See also:battle of See also:Sedan, and declared the See also:Rhine to be a " Catholic See also:river." He died at Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, on the 13th of See also:July 1877. (J. J. L.*) KETTERING, a See also:market See also:town in the eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Northamptonshire, See also:England, 72 M. N.N.W. from See also:London by the Midland railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1891), 19,454; (1901), 28,653. The church of SS See also:Peter and See also:Paul, mainly Perpendicular, has a lofty and ornate See also:tower and See also:spire. The See also:chief manufactures are boots, shoes, brushes, stays, clothing and agricultural implements. There are See also:iron-See also:works in the immediate neighbourhood. The See also:privilege of market was granted in 1227 by a See also:charter of See also:Henry III.

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