Laemmer, Hugo

Ph.D. (Berlin, 1855), Lie. Theol. (Berlin, 1856), D.D. (hon., Breslau, 1859), Roman-Catholic convert; b. at Allen stein, East Pru ia, Jan. 25, 1835; studied at Konigsberg, Leipzig, and Berlin, 1852-56; became prlvat-docent for historical theology at Berlin, 1857; made a scientific journey through Italy, and on his return went formally over to Catholicism at Braunsberg, Nov. 21, 1858. He then entered the clerical seminary there; was ordained a priest 1859; immediately thereafter went to Rome, and was appointed mi lonarlus apos to llc us, 1861. On his return to Braunsberg that year, he was made sub-regens of the seminary; was called to Rome by the Pope in 1863, as consullor of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. In 1864 he became profe or of moral theology at Braunsberg, and later in the year, in spite of the protest of the Protestant faculty, profe or of dogmatics in the Roman-Catholic theological faculty at Breslau, and soon after Conslstorlalrath, Pro synodal examinator, and episcopal Ponitentiar. In 1865 he became honorary member of the Doktorencolleglum of the Vienna theological faculty. He is the author of Clementls Alexandrlni de 2,6y<j doctrlna, Leipzig, 1855 (an academical prize e ay, whose preparation gave him his first impulse towards Roman Catholicism); De theologla roman oca tho llc a, quce reform a to rum cetate vlgult, antetrldentlna (another prize e ay, Berlin, 1857; translated by him into German under the title, Die vortrldentlnisch-kathollsche Theologie des Reformations- Zeltalters aus den Quellen dargestellt, Berlin, 1858); Papst Nlkolaus der Erste u. d. Byzantlnische Staats- Klrche seiner Zeit, 1857 (his habllltatlonsrede); (ed.) Eusebii Patnphill 134 hist, eccles. libri x., Schaffhausen, 1859-62; Analecta Romana. Klrchengeschlchtllche Forschungen in Romlschen Blbllolheken u. Archlven. Eine Denkschrift, Schaffhausen, 1860; Mlserlcordlas Domini, Freiburg-im-Br., 1861 (his autobiography, in which he relates the history of his conversion, and attributes it to his work upon Anselm's Cur Deus Homo, which he edited, Berlin, 1857, his study of Hermann von Kappenberg's De conversion sua, the reading of Roman-Catholic books, a severe illne , and the Jesuit revival meetings in Berlin); Monument a Vatican a hist or i am ecclesiastic am saculi X VI. ill us trant i a, 1861; Zur Kirchengeschichte des 16. und 17. Jahrh., 1863; (edited) Scrip to rum Grcecice orthod. bibllotheca selecta, 1864- 66; In decreta concllli Ruthenorum Zamosciensis anlmadverslones theologlco-canonicce, 1865; Calestis Urbs Jerusalem, 1866; Meletemaium romanorum manti a, 1876; De martyrologlo Romano, Parergon hlstorlco-crltlcum, Regensburg, 1878. *