WATTERICH, JOHANN BAPTIST. - Priest and historian, b. at Trier on 22 Dec. 1826, d. at Beuron on 10 Jan. 1904.

After having been professor of history at Braunsberg from 1862 to 1870, he embraced the priestly life and was engaged in the care of souls at Andernach and subsequently as a military chaplain. Unfortunately, in 1874 he embraced the errors of the Old Catholics and for many years was a preacher of heresy at Basel and at Baden-Baden. Touched by Grace two years before his death, he returned to the Catholic faith in the abbey of Beuron, where he spent the last period of his life in meditation and prayer.

A distinguished historian, W. published numerous works of vast and profound learning, among which, before his lapse, Gründung des deutsches Ordensstaats (1857) and Verfassung der Kirche im Jahrhundert der Apostel (1873). To W. is owed the precious collection: Pontificum Romanorum, qui fuerunt inde ab exeunte saec. IX usque ad finem saec. XIII, vitae ab aequalibus conscriptae (Leipzig 1862), prepared at the invitation of the MGH, in anticipation of the edition of the Liber Pontificalis (v.).

Bibliography

BIBL.: W. Deinhardt, s. v. in LThK, X, col. 766.

Renzo U. Montini

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Watterich, Johann Baptist

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