Reusch, Franz He in rich

Lie. Theol. (Minister, 1849), D.D. (Minister, 1859), Old Catholic; b. at Brilon in Westphalia, Germany, Dec. 4, 1825; student at Bonn, Tubingen, and Munich, 1843-47; consecrated priest at Cologne, 1849 chaplain in Cologne, 1849-53; became repetent in the theological " convictorium," and privat-docent at Bonn, 1854; profe or extraordinary of theology there, 1858; ordinary profe or, 1861. He was suspended, then excommunicated (March, 1872), by the archbishop of Cologne for refusing acceptance to the Vatican Decrees (1871). He played a prominent part in the organization of the Old- Catholic movement, 1871. He was rector of the Bonn University in 1873. From 1866 to 1877 he edited the Tkeologische Litteraturblatt. He is the author of Erklarung des Buches Baruch, Freiburg, 1853; Das Buch Tobias, 1857; Liber Sapiential grace secundum exemplar Vaticanum, 1858; Lchrbuch der Einleitung in das Alte Testament, 1859, 4th ed. 1870; Observations critics in Librum Sapient ice, 1861; Bibel und Natur, 1862, 4th ed. 1876 (English trans., Nature and the Bible, Edinburgh, 1886, 2 vols.); Libellus Tobit e Codice Sinaitico edit us et recensitus, Bonn, 1870; Luis de Leon und die spanische Inquisition, 1873; Berichte ilber die Unions-Conferenzen zu Bonn, 1874, 1875 Predigten, 1876; Gebelbuch, 1877; Die biblische Schopfungsgeschichte, 1877; Die deut 190 schen Bischbfe und der Aberglaube, 1879; Der Proce Galilei's und die Jesuiten, 1879; Der Index der verbotenen Biicher, 1883-85, 2 vols.; minor writings, articles in peri-