REIFFENSTUEL, (Johann Georg) Anacletus

Theologia Moralis A Reverendo Patre Anacleo Reiffenstuel Lectore Jubilato Reformatae Provinciae Bavariae Ex-Custode Jam Dudum Edita, et Novissime A. P. Flaviano Ricci A Cimbria...

Rome 1765, 336, 362 p. 25 cm. 2 vols. in 1. Hardcover. Full leather, badly scuffed, badly chipped at headband. Lacking rear endpapers, fore-edge inkstained, some foxing, p. 161 torn vol. 1. Theologian and canonist 1641-1703. Taught philosophy at Freising, Landshut and Munich. Taught theology at Munich from 1671 till 1680 when he became guardian of the convent of Weilheim (1680-83). Chosen definitor of his province 1677. Taught canon law at Freising to the members of his order and the seminarians of that town. He also devoted himself to the organization and cataloguing of the episcopal and capitular library of Freising. "It would be hard to praise unduly his learning, virtue, and regularity in his religious life, he enjoyed the confidence of everyone". He first published his "theologia moralis" in Munich 1692, and it went through thirty editions. Reiffenstuel (has) first rank among canonists; he is equalled by none, and is highly esteemed even in modern times. (Catholic Encyclopedia).

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