Burg, Franz Josef Von

Burg, Franz Josef Von a German theologian, leader of the Ultramontanists in Baden, was born March 23, 1803, at Zell-on-the-Harmersbach. He studied at Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Gottingen, and commenced his lectures at Freiburg in 1829, where he was also made professor extraordinarius in 1833, and in 1836 professor extraordinarius of the law-faculty. In 1837 he was elected member of the House of Representatives. The liberalism which he at first espoused he soon exchanged for ultramontanism, and in a short time he' became the leader of the clerical party. In 1874 he was elected member of the German Parliament, and died Feb. 1, 1878, at Freiburg. He published, Ueber den -Einfluss des Christenthums auf Recht und Staat (Freiburg, 1841)':-Die Methodologie des Kirchenrechts (ibid. 1842):- Der Unterschied der protestantischen und .katholischen Universitaten Deutschlands (ibid. 1846):-Die Gemeinsamkeit der Rechte und der Interessen des Katholizismus (Schaffhausen, 1847-1850, 2 vols.) :-Der

Orden der barmherzigen Schwestern (ibid. 1847):-Die katholisehe Politik von Donoso Cortes (Paderbornj 1850) :-Geschichte der Bedriickung der kathol. Kirche in England (Schaffhausen, 1851).:- Urkundliche Geschichte des National- und Territorialkirchenthumss in der kath. Kirche Deutschlands (ibid. 1851):-Diefreie kathol. Universitdt Deutschlands (ibid. 1851): --Die Gesellschaft Jesu, ihr Zweck, ihre Satzungen, Geschichte, Aufgabe und Stellung in der Gegenwart (Mayence, 1853,1854, 2 vols. new ed. 1863):- Der heil. Thomas, Erzbischof von Canterbury (ibid. 1855):-Winfried-Bonifacius, published after his death (Gratz, 1880). (B. P.)