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JOHANN HEINRICH See also:VAN See also:ESS (1772-1847) , See also:German See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born at Warburg, See also:Westphalia, on the 15th of See also:February 1772 . He was educated at the Dominican gymnasium of his native See also:town, and in 1790 entered, as a novice, the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of Marienmunster, in the bishopric of See also:Paderborn . His Benedictine name was Leander . He was See also:priest at Schwalenberg from 1799 to 1812, after which he became extraordinary See also:professor of See also:theology and See also:joint-director of the teachers' See also:seminary at See also:Marburg . In 1818 he received the doctorate of theology and of canonical See also:law . In 1807, in See also:conjunction with his See also:cousin Karl See also:van See also:Ess, he had published a German See also:translation of the New Testament, and, as its circulation was discountenanced by his superiors, he published in 1808 a See also:defence of his views, entitled Ausziige aus den heiligen Vdtern and anderen Lehrern der katholischen Kirche caber das nothwendige and nutzliche Bibellesen . An improved edition of this tractate was published in 1816, under the See also:title Gedanken caber Bibel and Bibellehre, and in the same See also:year appeared Was See also:war See also:die Bibel den ersten Christen ? In 1822 he published the first See also:part of a German translation of the Old Testament, which was completed in 1836 . In 1822 he resigned his offices at Marburg in See also:order to devote his whole See also:time to the defence of his views regarding See also:Bible See also:reading by the See also:people, and to endeavour to promote the circulation of the scriptures . He was associated first with the Catholic Bible Society of See also:Regensburg, and then with the See also:British and See also:Foreign Bible Society . He died at Affolderbach in the See also:Odenwald on the 13th of See also:October 1847 . |
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