Augustin Theiner
Augustin Theiner,
He was the son of a
Here, under the influence of
In the succeeding years he wrote the following works:
- Die neuesten Zustände der kath. Kirche in Polen und Russland (1841)
- Die Rückkehr der regierenden Hauser Braunschweig und Sachsen zur kath. Kirche (1843)
- Zustände der kath. Kirche in Schlesien 1740-58 (1846)
- Kardinal Frankenberg (1850)
He was commissioned by Pope Pius IX, who had given him a position in the Vatican Library in 1850, to write the Geschichte des Pontifikats Klemens XIV (1853; Italian translation, 1855). In this work he showed himself an opponent of the Jesuits, with whom he had been on good terms until 1844, so that the work was forbidden in the States of the Church.
In 1855, Pius IX appointed Theiner as Prefect of the
- Die Fortsetzung der Annalen des Baronius (3 vols., 1856)
- Vetera monumenta Hungariae (2 vols., 1859–60)
- Poloniae et Lithuaniae (4 vols., 1860–64)
- Slavorum meridionalium (2 vols., 1863)
- Hibernorum et Scotorum (1864)
- Codex dominii temporalis apostolicae sedis (3 vols., 1861–62)
- Monumenta spectantia ad unionem ecclesiarum Graecae et Romanae (1872).
Both before and during the First Vatican Council he was in close connection with the opponents of papal infallibility. Because he communicated to them the order of business of the Council, that had been kept secret, he was deposed from his dignities and offices.
Whether he died at peace with the Church is questionable. His correspondence with the
There is no doubt as to his large scholarship and his services to history. After his death appeared the work, Acta genuina Concilii Tridentini (1874), very imperfectly edited.
Works
- Disquisitiones criticae in praecipuas canonum et decretalium collectiones (in Latin). Rome: Collegio Urbano. 1836.
References
- ^ Vatican City website "Teutonic Cemetery" Archived August 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Augustin Theiner". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.