Franz Heinrich Reusch

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Franz Heinrich Reusch (4 December 1825 – 3 March 1900) was an

In the controversies on the infallibility of the Pope, Reusch belonged to Döllinger's party, and he and his colleagues Bernhard Josef Hilgers, Franz Peter Knoodt and Joseph Langen were interdicted by the Archbishop of Cologne in 1871 from pursuing their courses of lectures. In 1872 Reusch was excommunicated.^[1] For many years after this he held the post of Old Catholic curé of Bonn, as well as the position of vicar-general to the Old Catholic Bishop Reinkens, but resigned both in 1878, when, with Döllinger, he disapproved of the permission to marry granted by the Old Catholic Church in Germany to its clergy.

He retired into

His fame mainly rests on the works which he and Döllinger published jointly. These consisted of a work on the Autobiography of Cardinal Bellarmine, the Geschichte der Moralstreitigkeiten in der Römisch-Katholischen Kirche seit dem XVI. Jahrhundert, and the Erörterungen über Leben und Schriften des hl. Liguori. During the last few years of his life he was stricken with paralysis. He died in Bonn leaving behind him in manuscript a collection of letters to

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reusch, Franz Heinrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 208–209.