The New Student's Reference Work/Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz

Döllinger (dẽl′ ĭng-ẽr), Johann Joseph Ignaz, a German theologian, was born at Bamberg in 1799. At 24 his reputation as a writer led to his appointment as professor of church-history at the school of Aschaffenburg. Three years later he was appointed professor at the University of Munich. He became prominent in church-matters, and wrote several historical works, in all of which he upheld the authority of the pope. He was very prominent in the struggle which took place in the Roman Catholic church about the adoption, as a church doctrine, of the infallibility of the pope, belonging himself to that party of the Catholics, called the Old Catholics, who were opposed to it. Döllinger wrote a large number of works, many of them of great value. He died at Munich in 1890. Among his works are Paganism and Judaism, The Church and the Churches, The Religion of Mohammed and The Reformation.