Bible Encyclopedias
Messmer, Joseph Anton

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born October 17, 1829, and died at Munich, December 23, 1879, doctor and professor of theology. He published, Ueber den Ursprung, die Entwickelung und Bedeutung der Basilika in der christlichen Baukunst (Leipsic, 1854): — Johann Michael Sailer (Mannheim, 1875 ): — Dr. Joseph. Hubert — Reinkens, katholischer Bischof (Linz, 1874). (B.P.)