MICHAEL: One of the four (or seven) archangels of Jewish post-exilic angelology. His name
occurs in the Bible only in
Bibliography: A. Kohut, Judischs Anpalologie, Leipsic, 1866; W. Lueken, Michal, Gbttiagen, 1898; F. J. Peters, St. Michael und seine Verahrung, Cologne, 1902; A. Butler, Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and . . . Saints, Sept. 29, vol. ii., London, 1860.
MICHAEL, EMIL THEODOR RICHARD: Aus. trian Roman Catholic; b. at Reichenbach (32 m. s.w. of Breslau), Prussian Silesia, Sept. 20, 1852. He was admitted to the Society of Jesus in 1874 and was educated at the universities of Innsbruck and Breslau (Ph.D., 1884; D.D., 1888). In 1888 he became privat-docent for church history at the former institution, and three years later he was appointed associate professor of the same subject, being promoted to the rank of full professor in 1895. Since 1906 he has been professor of Christian art at Innsbruck. In addition to numerous contributions to theological periodicals, he has written Salimbene und seine Chronik (Innsbruck, 1889); Ranker Weltgeschichte, sine kritische Studie (Paderborn, 1890); Ignaz van Doldinger (Innsbruck, 1892); Gegchichte des deutschen Volkes (4 vols., Freiburg, 1897-1906); and Kritik -und Antikritik in Sachen meiner Geschichte des deutschen Volkes (2 parts, 1899-1902).
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