Hergenröther, Joseph Adam Gustav

Hergenröther, Joseph Adam Gustav yō´zĕf ä´däm go͝os´täf hĕr´gənrötər [key], 1824–90, German theologian and scholar, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a professor at Munich and Würzburg. In 1879, Leo XIII made him cardinal and first prefect of the newly opened Vatican archives. Hergenröther wrote polemical works and church history. A zealous advocate ofultramontanism, he refutedDöllingerwithAnti-Janus(1870, tr. 1870). His historical works includeThe Catholic Church and the Christian State(1876, tr. 1876) andManual of Universal Church History(3 vol., 1876–80). His monumental work onPhotius, written to dispel charges of papal responsibility for the Eastern schism, is fundamental, but considered by later scholars to be unfair to Photius.

See American Catholic Historical Association,Church Historians(1926).

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