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LANGEN, JOSEPH (1837-1901)

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LANGEN, See also:JOSEPH (1837-1901) , See also:German theologian, was See also:born at See also:Cologne on the 3rd of See also:June 1837. He studied at See also:Bonn, was ordained See also:priest in 1859, was nominated See also:professor extraordinary at the university of Bonn in 1864, and a professor in See also:ordinary of the exegesis of the New Testament in 1867—an See also:office which he held till his See also:death. He was one of the able See also:band of professors who in 1870 supported Dellinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated with Ignaz v. Dellinger, Johann See also:Huber, Johann See also:Friedrich, See also:Franz Heinrich See also:Reusch, Joseph See also:Hubert See also:Reinkens and others, for refusing to accept them. In 1878, in consequence of the permission given to priests to marry, he ceased to identify himself with the Old See also:Catholic See also:movement, although he was not reconciled with the See also:Roman Catholic See also:Church. Langen was more celebrated as a writer than as a See also:speaker. His first See also:work was an inquiry into the authorship of the Commentary on St See also:Paul's Epistles and the See also:Treatise on Biblical Questions, ascribed to See also:Ambrose and See also:Augustine respectively. In 1868 he published an Introduction to the New Testament, a work of which a second edition was called for in 1873. He also published See also:works on the Last Days of the See also:Life of Jesus, on Judaism in the See also:Time of See also:Christ, on See also:John of See also:Damascus (1879) and an Examination of the Vatican See also:Dogma in the See also:Light of Patristic Exegesis of the New Testament. But he is chiefly famous for his See also:History of the Church of See also:Rome to the Pontificate of See also:Innocent III. (4 vols., 1881–1893), a work of See also:sound scholarship, based directly upon the authorities, the most important See also:sources being See also:woven carefully into the See also:text. He also contributed largely to the Internationale theologische Zeitschrift, a See also:review started in 1893 by the Old Catholics to promote the See also:union of See also:National Churches on the basis of the See also:councils of the Undivided Church, and admitting articles in German, See also:French and See also:English.

Among other subjects, he wrote on the School of Hierotheus, on Romish falsifications of the See also:

Greek Fathers, on See also:Leo XIII., on Liberal See also:Ultramontanism, on the Papal Teaching in regard to Morals, on Vincentius of •Lerins and he carried on a controversy with Professor Willibald See also:Beyschlag, of the German Evangelical Church, on the respective merits of Protestantism and Old Catholicism regarded as a basis for teaching the See also:Christian faith. An attack of See also:apoplexy put an end to his activity as a teacher and hastened his death, which occurred in See also:July Igor. (J. J.

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