Augustin Theiner

Augustin Theiner , born the April 11th 1804 with Breslau and dead the August 8th 1874 with Civitavecchia, is a theologist and German historian.

Wire of a shoe-maker, he is pupil with the gymnasium Saint-Mathias, Breslau, then studies theology in this same city. He writes with his brother Anthony Einfuhrung DER erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit EIB den Geistlichen in 1828. On the councils of its brother, it gives up theology and turns to the right, which it studies in Breslau and Halle; it is graduate of this last university in 1829. A purse of the Prussian government then enables him to make research in Belgium, in the United Kingdom and in France, on the sources of the Canon law. It settles definitively in Rome, where it is subject to the influence of the count Reisach, then president of the Congrégation for the propagation of the faith.

He writes in 1835 Geschichte DER geistlichen Bildungsanstalten , and the following year of the Disquisitiones criticae on the sources of the canon law. Ordered priest, it returns in the Confederation of the Oratory of saint Philippe Néri. In the years which follow, it writes the following works: Die neuesten Zustände DER kath. Kirche in Pollen und Russland (1841), Die Rückkehr DER regierenden To raise Braunschweig und Sachsen zur kath. Kirche (1843), Zustände DER kath. Kirche in Schlesien 1740-58 (1846) and Kardinal Frankenberg (1850).

The pope Pie IX, which had named it with the apostolic Bibliothèque vaticane in 1850, charges it with writing a Histoire of the pontificate of Clement XIV , which appears in German in 1853 and Italian two years later. He is opposite to the Jesuits there - though he had maintained good relationships with them until 1844 - and it work is finally interdict in the Papal States. In 1855, Pie IX appoints it prefect of the secret Archives of the Vatican. Theiner publishes a certain number of documents collected in these files: Die Fortsetzung der Annalen of Baronius (3 vol., 1856), Vetera monumenta Hungariae (2 vol., 1859-60), Poloniae and Lithuaniae (4 vol., 1860-64), Slavorum meridionalium (2 vol., 1863), Hibernorum and Scotorum (1864), Codex dominii temporalis apostolicae sedis (3 vol., 1861-62) and Monumenta spectantia AD unionem ecclesiarum Graecae and Romanae (1872).

At the time of the First Council of the Vatican, it is related with the opponents to infallibility. It communicates to them the schemes of work of the Concile of Thirty, which should have remained secret, and is consequently dislocated of its functions. Testimonys on the end of its life diverge: for professor Johann Friedrich, it would have preserved the same ideas on infallibility, whereas the count Hermann Stainlein ensures the opposite. Its Acta genuina Concilii Tridentini is published in 1874, after its death.

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