HETZENAUER, MICHAEL. — Capuchin, biblical scholar, born at Zell (Tyrol) on 30 Nov. 1860, died at Rome on 4 Aug. 1928. Professor of Sacred Scripture in the house of studies of his Order at Innsbruck from 1885 to 1904, he was then called by Pius X to the chair of biblical exegesis at the Pontifical Athenaeum of the Roman Seminary, where he taught until his death. From 1914 he was a consultor of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. He took an active and tenacious part in the anti-Modernist struggle. Remarkable for his industry, he concerned himself with the government and history of his Order, with ascetical matters, and above all with biblical studies, through articles and some fifty works, many of which are of great scientific seriousness.
Among his works to be noted: *Das Kapuzinerkloster zu Innsbruck* (Innsbruck 1893); *Novum Testamentum graece et latine* (11th ed. 1896–98, critical edition, followed in 1899 and 1904 by separate editions); *Wesen und Prinzipien der Bibelkritik auf katholischer Grundlage* (11th ed. 1900); *Epitome exegetica biblica catholicae* (11th ed. 1903); *De recognitione principiorum criticae textus Novi Test. sec. A. de Harnack* (Rome 1920; Regensburg 1921); *De annis magisterii publici Iesu Christi* (Rome 1921). Fundamental, however, are *Theologia biblica Veteris Testamenti* (Freiburg 1908; that of the New Testament, ready for the press, was lost), the *Commentarius in librum Genesis*, with an ample introduction also issued separately (Graz 1910), and above all the critical edition of the Vulgate in two distinct editions: the typographical one for scholars: *Biblia Sacra Vulgatae editionis ex ipsis exemplaribus Vaticanis inter se atque*
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