HERGENROETHER, her'gen-rü"ter,
JOSEPH: Roman Catholic scholar; b. at
Würzburg Sept. 15, 1824; d. in the Cistercian monastery of
Mehrerau (1½ m. w. of Bregenz) Oct. 3, 1890. He studied at
Würzburg and in Rome, and was ordained priest there in 1848;
became professor extraordinary (1852), and ordinary professor of
ecclesiastical law and history (1855) at Würzburg. In 1868-69 he
was one
of the committee to prepare for the Vatican Council, and took
a consistent stand in favor of the infallibility dogma. Pius IX. made
him one of his domestic prelates; and Leo XIII., on May 12, 1879,
cardinal deacon and the first prefect of the apostolic archives. His
publications are numerous; of especial interest are
Der
Kirchenstaat seit der französischen Revolution,
Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1860;
Photius, Patriarch von
Constantinopel, 3 vols., Regensburg,1867-69 (one of the great
monographs of modern times; in vol. 3 is
Monumenta Græca ad
Photium ejusque historiam spectantia, also separately issued,
1869);
Anti-Janus, Freiburg, 1870 (English transl., Dublin,
1870; a reply to Döllinger's
Janus); Katholische Kirche and
christlicher Staat in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung and in
Beziehung auf die Fragen der Gegenwart,1872, abridged ed.,1873
(Eng. transl.,
Catholic Church and Christian State, 2 vols.,
London, 1876, with a supplementary volume of documents and
appendixes, 1876);
Handbuch der allgemeinen Kirchengeschichte,
3 vols., Freiburg, 1876-80. He also continued Hefele's
Conciliengeschichte by publishing vols. viii. and ix.
(1887-1890), published the
Regesta Leonis X., sections 1-8,
1884-91, and was the editor of the great
Kirchenlezikon of
Wetzer and Welte, 2d ed., 1880-1901.
Bibliography: J. B. Stamminger, Zum
Gedächtnisse Cardinal Hergenröthers, Freiburg, 1892;
J. Nirschl,
Gedächnisrede auf Cardinal J. Hergenröther,
Bregens, 1897.
HERIGER, här"i"zhê´: Abbot
of Lobbes (Laubach, in Belgium, 10 m. a.w. of Charleroi on the
Sambre); d. at Lobbes Oct. 31, 1007. As a monk he taught with much
success at Lobbes, the seat of a
famous school, between 970 and 980.
In all ecclesiastical and political affairs he was the right hand of
the great
Bishop Notker of Liége (q.v.) and accompanied him on
his journey to Rome in 989. In 990 he became abbot of the monastery.
Next to Gerbert of Aurillac (see
Sylvester II., Pope) Heriger was
perhaps the most important and versatile writer of his time. The
following of his works have been preserved: (1)
Gesta
episcoporum Tungrensium et Leodicensium, written before 980; it extends only
to the death of Bishop Remaclus (667 or 671) and is of little value.
(2)
S. Landvaldi et sociorum translatio, written after June,
980, at the order of Notker for the monks of St. Bavo in Ghent; the
saint and his associates are not known and seem to be fictitious. (3)
Vita S. Uramari, a fragment in hexameter. (4)
Epistola ad
quendam Hugonem monachum, concerning the calculation of the
Easter term, the extent of the time of Advent, and some chronological
problems. (5)
Regulte nummorum super abacum Gerberti, a
mathematical work. (6)
Libellus de corpore et sanguine Domini.
(H. Böhmer.)
Bibliography:
Parts of his works are in MGH, Script., vii (1846), 134 sqq., and xv (1888), 599
sqq., and in MPL, cxxxix. For his
life consult: Sigebertus
Gemblacensis, De scriptoribus
ecclesiasticis, chap. cxxxvii.,
in MPL, clx.; Histoire littéraire de la France, vii.
194 sqq., 472 sqq.; Wattenbach, DGQ, i. 382-383, 385; Hauck,
KD, iii. 319, 326, 485, 486; K. Werner, Gerbert von
Aurillac, Vienna, 1881.
