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REUSCH, FRANZ HEINRICH (1823-1900)

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REUSCH, See also:FRANZ HEINRICH (1823-1900) , Old See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born at Brilon, in See also:Westphalia, on 4th See also:December 1823. He studied See also:general literature at See also:Paderborn, and See also:theology at See also:Bonn, See also:Tubingen and See also:Munich. The friend and See also:pupil of Dellinger, he took his degree of See also:Doctor in Theology at Munich, the university of which Dellinger was so See also:long an See also:ornament. He was ordained See also:priest in 1849, and was immediately after-wards made See also:chaplain at See also:Cologne. In 18S4 he became Privatdozent in the exegesis of the Old Testament in the Catholic Theological See also:Faculty at Bonn; in 1858 he was made extra-See also:ordinary, and in 1861 ordinary, See also:professor of theology in the same university. From 1866 to 1877 he was editor of the See also:Bonner Theologisches Literaturblalt. In the controversies on the See also:Infallibility of the See also:Pope, Reusch attached himself to Dellinger's party, and he and his colleagues Hilgers, Knoodt and See also:Langen were interdicted by the See also:archbishop of Cologne in 1871 from pursuing their courses of lectures. In 1872 he was excommunicated. For many years after this he held the See also:post of Old Catholic cure of Bonn, as well as the position of See also:vicar-general to the Old Catholic See also:Bishop See also:Reinkens, but resigned both in 1878, when, with Dellinger, he disapproved of the permission to marry granted by the Old Catholic See also:Church in See also:Germany to its See also:clergy. From that See also:time he retired into See also:lay communion, but continued to give lectures as usual in the Old Catholic Faculty of Theology in the university of Bonn, and to write on theological subjects. He was made See also:rector of that university in 1873. In 1874 and 1875 he was the See also:official reporter of the memorable See also:Reunion Conferences held at Bonn in those years and attended by many distinguished theologians of the See also:Oriental and See also:Anglican communions.

Reusch was a profound See also:

scholar, an untiring worker and a See also:man of lovable See also:character. Among his voluminous See also:works were contributions to the Revue internationale de theologie, a See also:review started at See also:Bern at the instance of the Old Catholic See also:Congress at See also:Lucerne. He wrote also works on the Old Testament; a pamphlet on See also:Die Deutschen Bischofe and der Aberglaube; and another on the falsifications to be found in the See also:treatise of See also:Aquinas against the Greeks; as well as essays on the See also:history of the Jesuit See also:Order, and a See also:book of prayers. But his fame will mainly See also:rest on the works which he and See also:Dollinger published jointly. These consisted of a See also:work on the Autobiography of See also:Cardinal See also:Bellarmine, the Geschichte der Moralstreitigen in der Romisch-Katholischen Kirche seit dem X VI. Jahrhundert, and the Erorterungen fiber Leben and Schriften See also:des hl. See also:Liguori. During the last few years of his See also:life he was smitten with See also:paralysis. He died on the 3rd of See also:March 'goo, leaving behind him in See also:manuscript a collection of letters to See also:Bunsen about See also:Roman cardinals and prelates, which has since been published. (J. J. L.

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