PIRHING, EHRENREICH. - Canonist and moralist, b. at Siegarthing (Lower Bavaria) on 12 Apr. 1606, d. at Dillingen (Bavaria) on 15 Sept. 1679.

A Jesuit in 1628, he taught philosophy at Ingolstadt, then moral theology and, for a long time, canon law and Sacred Scripture at Dillingen. He was also rector at Eichstätt and preacher at Regensburg. He is regarded as the best canonist of the 17th century for his classic work: Jus canonicum in V libros Decretalium distributum (Dillingen 1674-78, 1722, Venice 1759), in which other works already published earlier on particular subjects of book I of the Decretals are summarized. After his death a confrere made a

summary: Facili et concisa ss. Canonum doctrina (Dillingen 1690, Venice 1693), then with the title Synopsis Pirhingana (Augsburg 1695, Venice 1697).

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Sommervogel, VI, pp. 851-55; J. F. v. Schulte, Die Gesch. der Quellen und Literatur des canon. Rechts, III, 1. Stuttgart 1880, pp. 143-44; B. Duhr, Gesch. der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge, IV, Munich 1921, pp. 243-44.

Augusto Moreschini

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Pirhing, Ehrenreich

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