LEITNER, MARTIN. – Canonist, born in Bodenwöhr (Oberpfalz) on 11 March 1862, died in Passau on 25 December 1929. Professor of canon law in Passau from 1904, he also devoted himself zealously to the administration of ecclesiastical justice. In the study of canon law, he followed the dogmatic approach.
Works: Praelectiones iuris canonici (5 vols., Rome 1898–99); Lehrbuch des katholischen Eherechts (1902, 3rd ed. 1920); Die Verlobungs- und Eheschliessungsform nach dem Dekret Ne temere und der Constitutio Provida (1907, 9th–10th ed. 1910); De Curia Romana (Regensburg 1909); Hundbuch des katholischen Kirchenrechts (5 fascicles, 1918–27, incomplete).
BIBL.: J. Krieg, s. V. in LThK, VI, col. 477; A. Van Hove, Prolegomena, 2nd ed., Malines–Rome 1945, pp. 382, 637.