A dogmatic theologian and ecclesiastical historian, born at
Münster in Westphalia, 1 March, 1833; died at Louvain, 12 Jan.,
1895. He belonged to an intensely Catholic family of Westphalia
; like him, two of his brothers entered the service of the
Church, one joining the Society of Jesus and the other becoming
a missionary in the United States. After finishing his studies
with brilliant success at the public schools of his native town,
he entered the German College at Rome through the mediation of
the bishop's secretary, afterwards Cardinal Melchers, and made
his philosophical and theological studies in the Gregorian
College. In 1854 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
; he was ordained priest in Rome on 8 June, 1857, and two years
later received the degree of Doctor of Theology. He then
returned to Germany, and worked for a short time as chaplain in
the church of St. Adelgunde at Emmerich. Bishop Malou of Bruges,
who chanced to be present in Rome in 1854 when Jungmann made his
public defence of the