Langen, Joseph

D.D. (Freiburg, 1861), Old Catholic; b. at Cologne, June 3, 1837; studied at Bonn; was ordained priest, 1859; privat-doeent at Bonn, 1861; profe or extraordinary, 1864; ordinary profe or, 1867; excommunicated for refusing to accept the infallibility dogma, 1872. He is the author of Die deulerokanonisclien Stiicke des Buches Esther, Freiburg, 1862; Die letzten Lebenslage Jesu, 1864; Das Judenthum in Palastina zur Zeit Christ i, 1866; Einleitung ins N. T., 1868, 2d ed. Bonn, 1873; Die Kirchenvdter u. d. N. T., Bonn, 1874; Die Trin it aris che Lehrdifferenz, 1876; Das Vatican is che Dogma in seinen Verhaltni zum N. T. u. der Uberlieferung, 1876; Johannes von Damask us, Gotha, 1879; Geschichte der rom is chen Kirche, Bonn, vol. i. 1881, vol. ii. 1885 (to Nicholas I.).