Schaefer, Thimotheus

SCHAEFER, THIMOTHEUS. - Capuchin canonist, b. at Hechingen (Hohenzollern) on 14 Sept. 1877, d. at Rome on 29 Nov. 1948. Having earned his doctorate in Rome in utroque iure and in philosophy, he taught at Münster, in the theological seminary of his Order, where he was also master of novices, then in Rome, at the International College of St. Lawrence of Brindisi (1920) and at the Pontifical Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics (1927).

For many years he was a valued consultor of the Holy Office and of various other Congregations and a prosynodal judge at the tribunal of the vicariate. He figures among the first systematic commentators on the new CIC, to which he devoted various monographs, much appreciated and widely circulated in Germany. He specialized in the law of religious. His De Religiosis is still the most complete and most consulted treatise on the subject. His principal works are: Das Eherecht nach dem CIC, Münster 1918; 4th ed. ibid. 1924; Die Verwaltung und Spendung der heiligen Sakramente, Paderborn 1921; Pfarrer und Pfarrvikare nach dem CIC, ibid. 1922; Das Ordensrecht nach dem CIC, ibid. 1923; Compendium de Religiosis, ibid. 1927; De Religiosis, 4th ed., Rome 1927. He was a speaker at the International Juridical Congress, held in Rome in 1933, with an extensive dissertation on the theme: Justinianus I et vita monachica (Atti del Congresso, I, pp. 173 ff.).

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