WOLFF, GEORGE DERING. - Journalist, b. at Martinsburg (West Virginia) on 25 Aug. 1822, d. at Norristown (Pennsylvania) on 29 Jan. 1894.
Born of a father who was a pastor of the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania, W. set out to become a pastor in his turn, but after long spiritual crises, in 1871, already fifty years old, he entered the Roman Church. A journalist of wide renown, he then founded the Catholic Mirror of Baltimore, then the Catholic Standard of Philadelphia. In 1876, at the invitation of James J. Corcoran and of Fr. O'Connor - later bishop and apostolic vicar of Nebraska - he also founded the American Catholic Quarterly Review of Philadelphia, to which his numerous articles on the dogmatic differences of the various Protestant Churches gave notable importance: a subject that W. knew thoroughly. The review thus became one of the most authoritative voices of American Catholicism, carrying out an effective work of clarification and persuasion among the educated classes.
BibliographyR. Randolph Jenkins, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 682.
BIBL.: R. Randolph Jenkins, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 682.
Montini, Renzo Uberto. “Wolff, george dering.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1710. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/wolff-george-dering.
MLA
Montini, Renzo Uberto. “Wolff, george dering.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1710. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/wolff-george-dering.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_wolff_george_dering,
author = {Montini, Renzo Uberto},
title = {Wolff, george dering},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1710},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/wolff-george-dering}
}
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