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FRANZ HEINRICH REUSCH (1823-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ HEINRICH See also:REUSCH (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, See also: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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