Rohrbacher, Rene Francois
Rohrbacher, Rene Francois
Church historian. Born in 1789 in Langatte, France; died in 1856 in Paris, France. He was ordained in 1812, and after doing parish work for a while at Luneville, he joined the Congregation of Saint Peter founded by the brothers De Lamennais, and for eight years directed the theological and philosophical studies of the postulants. After De Lamennais’s condemnation, he became Professor of Church History at the Nancy Seminary and then retired to Paris. His chief work is his monumental Histoire Universelle de l’Eglise Catholique in 29 volumes, continued by Chantrel and Guillaume. Though somewhat uncritical and devoid of literary merit, it dealt a heavy blow to Gallicanism, and is stll very valuable.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Rohrbacher, Rene Francois
a Roman Catholic theologian of France, was born at Langatte in 1789. For some time professor of theology in the clerical seminary at Nancy, he. went in 1849 to Paris, and died in 1856. Rohrbacher is the author of, Histoire Universelle de l’Eglise Catholique (Nancy, 1842-49, 29 volumes; 2d ed. Paris, 1849-53), afterwards translated into German:Catechisme du Sens Communn (2d ed. 1858): La Religion Meiditee (2d ed. 1852, 2 volumes): Des Rapports Naturels entre les deux Puissances (Besan(on, 1838, 2 volumes): De la Grace et de la Nature (eod.): Motifis qui ont Ramene a l’Eglise Catholique un Grand Numbre de Protestants et d’Autres Religionnaires (Paris, 1841, 2 volumes). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)