Franz Xaver Dieringer

Franz Xaver Dieringer ( born August 22, 1811 in Rangendingen (Hohenzollern ) † September 8, 1876 in Veringendorf (Hohenzollern) ) was a Catholic theologian.

Life

After studying theology at the University of Freiburg and the University of Tübingen Dieringer was ordained a priest in 1835 and then worked as Repetent at the Archbishop's Seminary in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1841 he became a professor at the Lyceum in Speyer in 1843 full professor at the Faculty of the University of Bonn, where he university preacher and director and founder of the homiletic - catechetical seminar was later Catholic theology.

1844 Dieringer was co-founder of the Borromeo association. From May 29 through September 29, 1848, he served as deputy for the 35th electoral district of the province of Rhineland in Neuss member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. He belonged to the Casino Group.

From 1853 to 1871 Dieringer worked for nunneries in Cologne as a canon and archbishop officer. In addition, he has published in various Catholic newspapers. In the context of disputes over the First Vatican Council itself Dieringer, who did not agree with the definition of papal infallibility, withdrew as a village priest after Veringendorf Hohenzollern in his homeland. The article about Dieringer in the ADB wrote the former Bonner colleague and Old Catholic Franz Heinrich Reusch.

Works

• The hl. Charles Borromeo Church and the improvement of his time (Cologne, 1845)
• System of divine deeds of Christianity (2nd edition, Mainz 1857)
• Textbook of Catholic dogma (5th edition, Mainz 1865).