Johann Friedrich (theologian)

Johannes Friedrich ( born May 5, 1836 in Poxdorf ( Upper Franconia ); † August 19, 1917 in Munich) was a Catholic theologian and Old Catholic.

Life

John Frederick was ordained a priest in 1859. 1862-1865 he worked as a lecturer, from 1865 to 1873 as an associate, from 1873 as full professor at the University of Munich. In 1869 he was appointed as a pupil of Ignaz von Dollinger the First Vatican Council. He held the local operations, including the proclamation of the dogma of the infallibility of the papacy, in a diary. After his return he and Dollinger refused to accept the decrees of the Council and the subjugation of the faculty. Both were excommunicated on April 17, 1871. Frederick was involved in the founding of the Old Catholic Faculty in Bern, and held there in 1875 for a semester lectures.

Works

• Church history of Germany (two volumes) Bamberg 1867-1869
• Kept a diary during the Vatican Council, Nördlingen 1871
• Documentation ad illustrandum Concilium Second Vatican Council, Munich 1871
• The mechanism of the Vatican religion, Bonn 1876
• Contributions to the ecclesiastical history of the 18th century, Munich 1876
• History of the Vatican Council (two volumes) Bonn 1877-1883
• For the ancient history of the primacy, Bonn 1879