Franz Heinrich Reusch

Franz Heinrich Reusch (born December 4, 1825 in Brilon ; † March 3, 1900 in Bonn ) was an old Catholic theologian and priest.

Career

Reusch became associate professor of Old Testament exegesis in Bonn in 1858 and full professor in 1861 . He worked as a journalist for the church news of the Kölner Blätter . In 1865 Reusch became editor of the Theologische Literaturblatt . He wrote a great many biographies for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . In addition, he was editor of the Old Catholic Rituals .

From 1873 to 1878 Reusch was vicar general of Bishop Joseph Hubert Reinkens before he resigned from office in protest against the abolition of compulsory celibacy of the Old Catholic priests. As university rector, he made the Bonn Union Conferences of Ignaz von Döllinger possible in 1874 and 1875 and then wrote their documentation. In 1886 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Explanation of the Book of Baruch. Freiburg 1853;
The book of Tobias, translated and explained. Freiburg 1857;
Observationes criticae in librum Sapientiae. Freiburg 1861;
Libellus Tobit e codice Sinaitico editus et recensitus. Bonn 1870;
Textbook of the Introduction to the Old Testament. Freiburg 1859, 1864, 1868, 1870;
Luis de Leon and the Spanish Inquisition. Bonn 1873.
Bible and nature. Lectures on the Mosaic prehistory and its relationship to the results of natural research. Freiburg 1862, 1866, 1870, Bonn 1876.
The biblical story of creation and its relationship to the results of natural research. Bonn 1877.
The Index of Forbidden Books. A contribution to church and literary history. Bonn 1883–1885 (reprinted in 1967 by Scientia-Verlag, Aalen).
The sixteenth-century Indices librorum prohibitorum. Tübingen 1886 (edition; reprints 1961 and 1960 by B. de Graaf, Nieuwkoop).
with Ignaz von Döllinger : The autobiography of Cardinal Bellarmine. Bonn 1887.
with Ignaz von Döllinger: History of moral disputes in the Roman Catholic Church. Bonn 1888 (standard work).
The forgeries in the treatise of Thomas Aquinas against the Greeks. Bonn 1889.
Contributions to the history of the Jesuit order. Munich 1894.

Leopold Karl Goetz : Franz Heinrich Reusch 1825–1900. A representation of his life's work. Perthes, Gotha 1901 (with portrait and list of independent writings).
Heinz-Jürgen Vogels : Reusch, Franz Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 77-80. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Hubert Wolf : Franz Heinrich Reusch: A German Index Reform? In: Ders .: Index. The Vatican and the Forbidden Books. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54371-5 , pp. 220-237, especially the section From censor to reviewer , pp. 221-229.

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personal data
SURNAME	Reusch, Franz Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian (Old Testament scholar) and Old Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 4, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brilon
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1900
Place of death	Bonn