Johann Nepomucene Brischar

Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tübingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897. His principal work is the continuation of Count Leopold Stolberg’s “History of the Religion of Jesus Christ” of which he wrote volumes forty-five to fifty-four. His share of the work does not reach the high standard of his great predecessor. He is also the author of a work in two volumes on the controversies between Paolo Sarpi and Pallavicini, and of a monograph on Pope Innocent III. His “Catholic Pulpit Orators of Germany” in five volumes was published in Schaffhausen, in the years 1866-71. He contributed many articles to Herder’s “Kirchenlexicon”.