Heinrich Joseph Wetzer

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Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (

In 1828, Wetzer became professor-extraordinary, and in 1830 professor-ordinary, of Oriental philology at the University of Freiburg. Wetzer's interest in preserving the Catholic character of Freiburg, which had been founded and endowed as a Catholic university, incurred for him the odium of the Protestant professors, who, in the majority from 1846, excluded him from all academic positions. In 1850, Wetzer was appointed chief librarian of the university library.

Wetzer composed anonymously the little work "Die Universität Freiburg nach ihrem Ursprunge..." (Freiburg, 1844). He had also begun a history of the controversy between Arianism and the Catholic Church in the fourth century, but only a small part of it was completed and published as "Restitutio verae chronologiae rerum ex controversiis Arianis, inde ab anno 325 usque ad annum 350 exortarum..." (Frankfort, 1827).

References

• Gyory in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XLII (Leipzig, 1897), 261-3.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Heinrich Joseph Wetzer". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.