Braig, Karl von Borromaeo
BRAIG, KARL VON BORROMAEO: German
Roman Catholic; b. at Kanzach (a village near
Buchau, 30 m. s.w. of Ulm) Feb. 10, 1853. He
was educated at the University of Tübingen (Ph.D.,
1877), where he was instructor in dogmatic theology
in 1879–83, and was parish priest at Wildbad and
district inspector of schools, except for tours of
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and England,
from 1883 to 1893. In the latter year he was
appointed associate professor of apologetics and
dogmatics at the University of Freiburg, and four
years later was promoted to his present position
of full professor of the same subjects. He is also
director of the dogmatic seminar in the university,
and has written Zukunftsreligion des Unbewussten
(Freiburg, 1882); Kunst des Gedankenlesens
(Frankfort, 1886); Encyklopädie der theoretischen
Philosophie (Stuttgart, 1886); Gottesbeweis oder
Gottesbeweise? (1888); Apologie des Christentums
(Freiburg, 1889); La Matière (Paris, 1891); Die
Freiheit der philosophischen Forschung (Freiburg,
1894); Vom Denken (1896); Vom Sein (1896); Vom
Erkennen (1897); Leibniz, sein Leben und die
Bedeutung seiner Lehre (Frankfort, 1901); Zur
Erinnerung an Franz Xavier Krauss (Freiburg,
1902); Wesen des Christentums (1903); and Der
Papst und die Freiheit (1903).