SCHMÖGER, CARL. - Redemptorist writer, b. at Ehingen (Württemberg) on 24 Feb. 1819, d. at Gars on 14 Aug. 1883. Ordained priest in 1842, he entered the Redemptorists at Altötting in 1850, was rector of the house at Gars on the Inn from 1865-68, and from 1868-83, during the *Kulturkampf*, superior of the province of Upper Germany.
Schmöger produced excellent translations of several works by St. Alphonsus, St. Bonaventure, and St. Bridget; he is the biographer of the famous seer of Dülmen, Emmerick (v.), and editor of her visions. Having received from the Benedictine abbot Haneberg the manuscripts of Clemens Brentano (now in the generalate house of the Redemptorists), who had only published the Passion and the Life of the Madonna, Schmöger published in 1858-60 the public life of Jesus in 3 vols., and in 1867-70, in 2 vols., the life of the Seer with many visions, translated into Italian and 4 other languages. Finally, he published the great synthesis of biblical visions: *Das arme Leben und bittere Leiden Jesu Christi und seiner heiligsten Mutter Maria nebst den Geheimnissen des Alten Bundes* (Regensburg 1881) in one volume of pp. 1210 in-4°, with fine illustrations by his subject, Brother Maximilian Schmalzl (4th ed. 1892, edited by G. Wiggermann).