HANEBERG, DANIEL BONIFATIUS. - Bishop,
b. at Lenzfried (Bavaria) on 16 June 1816, d. at
Speyer on 31 May 1876. After studying philology
and theology at the University of Munich, he was ordained
priest in 1839 and became ordinary professor of
Old Testament exegesis at the University of
Munich.
Having entered the Order of St Benedict at the abbey
of St Boniface in 1850, five years later he became its
abbot. In 1864, elected bishop by the cathedral chapter
of Trier, he refused the appointment. He did the same two years
later, when the sees of Cologne and
Eichstätt were offered to him. He was summoned to Rome by Pius IX to prepare
the Vatican Council. In 1872 he accepted the administration
of the diocese of Speyer, which he governed as bishop until his
death. Among his works may be noted: Die religiösen
Altertümer der Bibel (Munich 1869), Geschichte der
biblischen Offenbarung (ibid. 1850), and the edition of the Canones
s. Hippolyti (ibid. 1870).