a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born in 1803. From 1829 he was connected with the University of Bonin, where he died April 15, 1863. He is the author of, Lehrbuch der christlichen Sittenleh7re (Bonn, 1834-39, 3 vols.): — Fides Niccen de Filio Dei Sainctor. Patrum atque Doctorum, qui Primis Sceculis Continua Success. in Eccles. Floruerunt, Tradit. (Conformata. Dissertat. Histor. — theol. (Cologne, 1829). In connection with Achterfeld, Braun, Droste, and Scholz, he edited the Zeitschrift fü r Philosophie u. kathol. Theologie (ibid. 183235). See Winer, Handb. der theol. Lit. 1, 14, 318, 597; Literarischer Janlweiser fü r das kathol. Deutschland, 1863, p. 236. (B. P.)