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Hergenröther, Joseph Adam Gustav

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Hergenröther, Joseph Adam Gustav (yō`zĕf ä`däm gs`täf hĕr`gənrötər), 1824–90, German theologian and scholar, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a professor at Munich and Würzburg. In 1879, Leo XIII made him cardinal and first prefect of the newly opened Vatican archives. Hergenröther wrote polemical works and church history. A zealous advocate of ultramontanism ultramontanism (ŭl'trəmŏn`tənĭzəm) [Lat.,=beyond the mountains, i.e.
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, he refuted Döllinger Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von (yō`hän yō`zĕf ĭg`näts fən döl`ĭngər)
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 with Anti-Janus (1870, tr. 1870). His historical works include The Catholic Church and the Christian State (1876, tr. 1876) and Manual of Universal Church History (3 vol., 1876–80). His monumental work on Photius Photius (fō`shəs), c.820–892?, Greek churchman and theologian, patriarch of Constantinople, b. Constantinople.
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, written to dispel charges of papal responsibility for the Eastern schism, is fundamental, but considered by later scholars to be unfair to Photius.

Bibliography

See American Catholic Historical Association, Church Historians (1926).



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