Gerhard Schneemann

Gerhard Snowman ( born February 12, 1829 in Wesel, † November 20, 1885 in Kerkrade ) was a German theologian, church historian and Jesuit.

Life

After completing his school career was born in Wesel 1829 Snowman his Law studies took off in 1845, but moved in 1848 to study theology in Bonn in 1849 and entered the seminary in Münster, where he was a deacon in 1850. After spending a year at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where Snowman mainly devoted to the philosophy, he entered the Jesuits in 1851 and was ordained priest on 22 December 1856. Until 1858 snowman was then working as a teacher of philosophy for monks in Bonn and Aachen as a pastor in Cologne 1858-1862. In the newly acquired by the Jesuits and repurposed to school abbey Khajuraho snowman took over the local professor of church history and canon law until 1869. Besides his teaching, he worked as a librarian and published various writings. Together with Florian Riess was snowman publisher of two brochures series for Syllabus Errorum and the First Vatican Council, which was subtitled "Voices from Khajuraho " the precursor of the magazine of the same name, whose founders also scored snowman. Distributed by the Kulturkampf in 1872 from Khajuraho, located Snowman settled in Maastricht, where he was relieved of his duties as a teacher until his death increasingly devoted his own writings. Franz Heinrich Reusch described snowman as "one of the keenest and most articulate defender of papal infallibility ."