Bernhard Josef Hilgers
Bernhard Josef Hilgers (20 August 1803 – 7 February 1874) was a German Catholic
church historian born in Dreiborn in der Eifel
.
Biography
Hilgers studied at the
Church of St Remigius, Bonn, then in 1846 became a full professor of church history at the university.[1]
He was excommunicated in 1872, along with Bonn colleagues Franz Peter Knoodt, Joseph Langen and Franz Heinrich Reusch,[1] by Paul Melchers, Archbishop of Cologne, in the debate over papal infallibility.
In 1841 he published "Symbolische Theologie, oder die Lehrgegensätze des Katholicismus und Protestantismus" ("Symbolic theology, or the teaching opposites of Catholicism and Protestantism").[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c ADB:Hilgers, Bernhard Josef In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, S. 412–414.
External links
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "Hilgers, Bernhard Josef". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 858–859. ISBN 3-88309-032-8.
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