Johann Nepomuk Brischar

Johann Nepomuk Brischar ( born August 22, 1819 in Horb, † April 11, 1897 in Buhl ) was a German Catholic church historian.

Life

Johann Nepomuk Brischar was born as one of eleven children of stuff maker Georg Severin Brischar, tenants on the Ramstein near Rottweil, and his wife Antonia born Schrof, on 22 August 1819 Württemberg Horb. From 1835 to 1838 he attended high school and the Royal Seminary Rottweil and studied from 1839 to 1843 at the University of Tübingen. The Faculty of Theology drew the gifted students in 1842, with its annual award from. Johann Brischar was his doctorate in both theology and philosophy. On August 28, 1844, he was ordained a priest.

In the years 1845 and 1846 Johann Brischar traveled for research in archives through northern Germany and to Austria, Italy and France. After his return he was Repetent 1846 at Wilhelmstift to Tübingen in November. There, he taught history. In 1851, his editorship of the Vienna Litteraturzeitung was transferred.

In February 1853 Johann Brischar was appointed parish priest in Buhl, a village between Rottenburg and Tubingen. For 41 years, until his retirement in 1894, he devoted himself as a village pastor of pastoral care and used alongside his scientific interests, until, as Hugo Koch put it, " the death on April 11, 1897 redeemed the tired old man ."

Works

• Several articles in the Theological quarterly magazine
• Judging of the controversy 's Sarpi and Pallavicini 's in the history of the Council of Trent (Tübingen 1844)
• The Catholic pulpit orator of Germany since the last centuries ( five volumes; Schaffhausen 1866/1871 )
• History of the religion of Jesus Christ (bands 46 to 53 ) ( 1850/1854 )
• Innocent III. and his time (Freiburg 1883)