Franz Xaver von Funk

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Portrait of Franz Xaver Funk, inventory of the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Franz Xaver Funk , from 1890 from Funk , (born October 22, 1840 in Abtsgmünd near Aalen , † February 24, 1907 in Tübingen ) was a Roman Catholic priest and professor of patrology .

Life

Funk went to school in Ellwangen and then studied from 1859 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen first philosophy and theology, later also philology and political economy. In 1863 he received his doctorate in philosophy. In 1864 he was ordained a priest in the diocese of Rottenburg . From 1865 to 1866 he studied in Paris and then went to Tübingen. There he was assistant to Karl Joseph von Hefele , later ordained bishop , whose adviser he was at the First Vatican Council .

In 1875 he became a professor of church history specializing in patrology and Christian archeology at the University of Tübingen.

Funk was one of the experts in ancient church history and patrology. His textbook on church history saw numerous editions and was regarded as a standard work for a long time after his death. Funk made an obvious effort to counteract the trend towards overvaluation of medieval theology at the time.

In 1890 he was raised to the personal nobility by being awarded the Knight of Honor Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . In 1903 he received the commentary cross, 2nd class of the Frederick Order .

Works

  • Interest and usury. A moral-theological treatise , 1868.
  • History of the Church's ban on interest , 1876, online .
  • Opera Patrum Apostolicorum , 1881.
  • The authenticity of the Ignatian letters, defended anew , 1883.
  • Textbook of Church History , 1886 (last published as the 6th, much improved and increased edition, Paderborn 1911; reprinted by Salzwasser-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3734006227 ).
  • Doctrina duodecim Apostolorum , 1887.
  • The Apostolic Constitutions. A literary-historical investigation , 1891.
  • The 8th Book of the Apostolic Constitutions and the Related Scriptures, Re-examined for Relation , 1893.
  • Church history treatises and studies , Volume I 1897, Volume II 1899, Volume III 1907
  • Our Lord's Testament and Related Scriptures , 1901.
  • Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum , 2 volumes, 1905.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, page 40
  2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, page 82
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Franz Xaver von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funk, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic priest and professor of patrology
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Abtsgmünd near Aalen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1907
Place of death Tübingen