Menzel, Andreas

Lie. Theol. (B 155 reslau, 1843), D.D. (Breslau, 1857), Old Catholic; b. at Mehlsack, East Pru ia, Nov. 25, 1815; studied theology at Braunsberg, 1837-41; was ordained priest, 1841; became vikar at Braunsberg, 1841; stipend i at in Rome, 1844; sub-regens of the Episcopal seminary at Braunsberg, 1845; profe or extraordinary of theology in the university there, 1850 ordinary profe or of systematic theology, 1853 at Bonn, 1874. In 1849-51 and 1862-63 he was member of the House of Deputies in Berlin. Since 1870, although an ordinary profe or of theology, he has had no students, because he was excommunicated for refusing to accept the Vatican decrees. He has always striven to make Catholicism, in the spirit of the New Testament, accord with the requirements and conceptions of our time. He is the author of De natura conscient i a, Braunsberg, 1852; Traducianism us an Creation is in us? 1856; and other Latin academical di ertations. He died at Bonn, Aug. 5, 1886.