Friedrich Maassen

Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen, also Maassen (* September 24, 1823 in Wismar, † April 9, 1900 in Wilten, Tyrol ) was a German -Austrian law professor and journalist.

Maassen studied history and law at Jena, Berlin, Kiel and Rostock in 1845. During his studies, he became in 1841 a member of the Prince basement fraternity and 1842/43 the castle basement fraternity in Jena. He practiced as a lawyer and Syndic was the Mecklenburg knighthood. Together with Franz Chassot of Flore Court in 1849, he founded the anti- revolutionary North German magazine correspondent. In 1851 he converted together with Franz Chassot of Flore Court, Karl von Vogelsang and Emil von Bülow from Protestantism to the Catholic Church and moved to Bonn. In 1853 he wrote as part of his teaching in Bonn, the work, the primacy of the Bishop of Rome and the ancient patriarchal churches. In 1855 he was appointed as associate professor of Roman law at the University of Pest, in the same year at the University of Innsbruck. In 1860 he became a full professor of Roman and canon law at the University of Graz, 1870, he published there, the history of the sources and literature of canon law in the West until the end of the Middle Ages. Also in Graz, he published the font Nine chapters on free church and freedom of knowledge (1876 ). From 1871 to 1894 he taught at the University of Vienna. He has performed against the dogma of infallibility, distanced himself in 1882 but explicitly from the Old Catholics. His main area of ​​work was the canonical source research. In 1873 he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. In 1882, he took with his work Concerning the reasons for the struggle between the pagan state and Christianity affect the Prussian Kulturkampf.