HORNEIUS, her-nai'us (HORNEY), CONRAD: German Protestant; b. at Brunswick Nov. 25, 1590; d. at Helmstedt Sept. 26, 1649. He was educated at the school of St. Catherine in Brunswick, and at the University of Helmstedt, where he was a favorite pupil of the humanist Johannes Caselius. In 1619 he became professor of logic and ethics at Helmstedt, and in 1628 professor of theology. Like Calixtus, his colleague, he advocated the study of Aristotle and opposed the application of the doctrine and method of Petrus Ramus in philosophy, pedagogics, and theology; and like Calixtus he was attacked by the ruling orthodoxy on account of his liberal views in theology. In Nov., 1648, the three courts of Brunswick commissioned Calixtus and Horneius to furnish an exposition of the questions in dispute. Horneius treated the necessity of good works, the authority of ecclesiastical antiquity, and the study of concord and mutual tolerance. He wrote Com pendium dialecticce (Helmstedt, 1623); Disputationes ethicee (1618); Compendium naturalis philosophies (1618); Disquisitiones meiaphysicte (1622); Inatitutiones logicw (1623); Institutiones philosophim moralis (1624); Exercitationes and Disputes bones logictE (1621). Against his theological opponents he wrote: Defensio diepulationis de summa. fidei . . . quo per caritatem operatur, necessitate ad salutem (1647); Iterata assertio de necessitate fdei per caritatem operands (1649); Repetitio doetrinm verse de necessitate bonorum operum (1649), and other works. After his death appeared Compendium historim ecclesiasticce (1649), on the three first centuries; commentaries on Hebrews (1654) and the
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Bibliography: ADD, mii. 148-149; E. L. T. Henke, G. Catixt und seine Zest, Halle, 1853-60; G. Frank, Geacmchte der proteetantischen Theodogie, ii. 8 sqq., Leipsic, 1882.
HORNER, JUNIUS MOORE: Protestant Episcopal bishop; b. at Oxford, N. C., July 7, 1859. He studied at the University, of Virginia in 187980, after which he was instructor in Latin and Greek in the Oxford School for Boys for several years. He then studied at Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1885) and the General Theological Seminary (B.D., 1892), and was ordained priest in the following year. From 1890 to 1898 he was associated with his brother as principal of the Oxford School after the death of his father, and in the latter year was consecrated first missionary bishop of Asheville, N. C.
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