a Roman Catholic theologian, was born in the year 1824 at Witschein, in Stria. In 1846, he received holy orders, and in 1853 he as promoted at Vienna as doctor of theology. In the same year he was called as professor of dogmatics to Gratz, where he remained until the year 1868. He then went to Vienna and lectured until the year 1871, when he was appointed canon of St. Stephen's, and died May 14,1875. He published, Lectures on the Syllatbus Erroruum of the Papal Encycl. dated Dec. 8, 1864 (Vienna, 1865): — Ueber Religionslosigkeit und Wissenschaftf, Darwinisimus und den Ursprung des Menschen (Gratz, 1865). Comp. Lifterarischer Handweiserfir das kathol. Deutschland, 1866, p, 59, 1g3; 1875, p. 252. (B. P.)