METHODIST

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

OCTOBER, 1879.

ART. I. — DÖLLINGER.

JOHN JOSEPH IGNATIUS VON DÖLLINGER was born at Würzburg on the twenty-eighth of February, 1799. We have no information concerning his early years, family connections, or worldly circumstances. The von which precedes his name indicates noble birth, but cannot assure us that his family was in a prosperous social condition. He says by chance that his grandfather was once in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Bamburg and Würzburg, but does not tell what the service Of his own father or mother we hear not a word. We know nothing of the influences that wrought upon him at home, in school, or at the university. Of his earlier moral and religious development, also, we know nothing.

was.

In 1822 he became a priest, and in 1826 Professor of Theology in the new University of Munich. In one of his later addresses he speaks of himself as having accomplished a professorial career of fifty years. In point of fact, the only interruption of his academic duties occurred between the years 1847 and 1849, when he was dismissed from his chair by ministers whom the infamous Lola Montez had raised to power. It was a noble testimonial to the purity and energy of his character that such people must silence him before they could sin unashamed. His career in authorship began likewise in 1826, with the publication of a work on "The Doctrine of the Eucharist in the First Three Centuries." Two volumes of an elaborate "Church FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXXI-40