Boeckenhoff, Wilhelm Bernard Aloysius Karl

BOECKENHOFF, bŪk´en-hof, WILHELM BERNARD ALOYSIUS KARL: German Roman Catholic; b. at Schermbeck (37 m. s.w. of Münster) July 10, 1870. He was educated at Münster (1890–93), the Gregorian University, Rome (1897–1900; Doctor Juris Canonici, 1899), and the University of Berlin (1900-01; D.D., Münster, 1901). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1894 and was a vicar in Dolberg from that year until 1897, when he resumed his studies. He became a privat-docent at Münster in 1902, but three years later went in a similar capacity to Strasburg, where he 209was appointed associate professor of canon law in the following month. In addition to contributions to theological periodicals, he has written De individuitate matrimonii (Berlin, 1901) and Das apostolische Speisegesetz in den ersten fünf Jahrhunderten (Paderborn, 1903).