GEORGE PHILLIPS. - Jurist, b. 6 Jan. 1804 at Königsberg, d. 6 Sept. 1872 at Aigen near Salzburg. Extraordinary Professor of German Law at the University of Berlin, he abjured Protestantism in 1828 and, leaving Berlin, moved to the University of Munich.
Deputy to the Constituent Assembly of Frankfurt in 1848–49, he then became in 1850 Professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1851 at Vienna, where he remained until his death. He gained wide renown especially for his work, left unfinished, *Kirchenrecht*, in 7 vols., published from 1845 to 1872. In it he revived the doctrine of the indirect power of the Papacy over the State, contributing with this theory to bring an end to Josephinism in the Hapsburg Empire, and upheld papal infallibility in matters of religion.