Baier, Johannes

BAIER, JOHANNES: German Roman Catholic; b. at Hetzles (a suburb of Erlangen) Oct. 16, 1852. He was educated at the Lyceum of Bamberg and the University of Munich (D.D., 1885), and was ordained to the priesthood in 1877. From that year until 1882 he was a tutor in the archiepiscopal seminary for boys at Bamberg and also assistant lecturer in dogmatics at the lyceum of the same city, besides being assistant parish priest at Bamberg and Nuremberg in the summer of 1877 and at Hersbruck in 1879-80. In 1882-86 he was a teacher of religion at the normal school at Bamberg, where he became Oberlehrer and tutor in the latter year, and where he has been professor since 1901. Since 1906 he has been headmaster of the same institution, and in the same year was made an honorary Austin friar. In theology “he belongs to the conservative party and is a friend of rational sound progress.” Besides many contributions to theological and philosophical periodicals, and in addition to numerous poems, he has written, frequently under the pseudonym of Dr. Johannes Scholasticus, Die Naturehe (Regensburg, 1886); Die religiöse Unterweisung in der Volksschule (Würzburg, 1890); Der heilige Bruno, Bischof von Würzburg, als Katechet (1891); Das alte Augustinerkloster in Würzburg (1894); Die Stellung der Religionsunterricht sur Philosophie Herbarts (1895); Dr. Martin Luthers Aufenthalt in Würzburg (1895); Die Geschichte des Cisterzienserklosters Langheim mit den Wallfahrtsorten Vierzehnheiligen und Marienweiher (1895); Die Geschichte der beiden Karmelitenklöster und des Reurerinnenklosters im Würzburg (1900); Sailers Buch über Erziehung für Erzieher (Freiburg, 1901); Analyse and Synthese im Regionsunterricht (Würzburg, 1902); Sailer in seinem Verhältnis zur modernen Pädagogik (1904); Die Willensbildung (Kempten, 1905); and Methodik des Religionsunterrichts in Volks- and Mittelschulen (Leipsic, 1906).