Caspar Riffel

Kaspar checker (* January 19, 1807 in Büdesheim ( Bingen am Rhein); † December 15, 1856 in Mainz ) was a Catholic theologian and professor of church history at the University of Giessen.

Life

Kaspar Riffel began his philosophical and theological studies first at the seminary of Mainz, but switched in 1829 to the University of Tübingen and graduated finally in 1830 at the University of Bonn. In December of the same year he received the priesthood in Mainz. Since November 1830, he worked as a lecturer in church history at the seminary in Mainz. Already in the following year Kaspar Riffel was given the job as a chaplain in the parish of Bingen. He was also used here as a teacher at the Latin School. In 1835 he was appointed associate professor of moral theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Giessen and the town pastor in casting. 1837 Caspar Riffel at the Giessen faculty professor of church history and also earned his doctorate in theology.

When charged by the Protestant side against the 1841 published the first volume of his work " History of Christian Churches of modern times " because of the representation of the Reformation violent protests, he was removed from the Hessian government of his chair and treated with full pay in retirement. Kaspar checker moved now as Mainz, where he was in 1848 a member of the editorial board of the magazine " The Catholic" was. As Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler of Mainz in 1851 in his diocese re-opened an own theological educational institution under ecclesiastical supervision, Kaspar Riffel was transferred to the chair of church history.

Writings

• Historical background of the relations between church and state. From d d founding Christianity down to Justinian I, Mainz 1836.
• History of Christian Churches of the latest time | of the commencement of the major faith and church schism of the sixteenth century to our own day, 3 volumes, Mainz from 1842 to 1846.
• The dissolution of the Jesuit Order. An illumination of old and new charges against that, Mainz 1845.