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Molkenbuhr, Marcellin
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
a German Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Munster, September 1, 1741, and was educated in the convents of the Rhenish country. In 1758 he entered the Order of St. Francis at Hanau, but was ordained to holy orders October 27, 1764, and for nine years taught philosophy and mathematics, and for twelve years divinity and moral theology at Paderborn. He then retired to the convent of St. Francis at Munster; but in 1811, when it was abolished, he lived for a while privately. In 1815 he re-entered monastic life in the convent of St. Francis at Paderborn, and died there in 1831. Some of his most important works are: Das Zeitalter der Vernunft herausgegeben von Thomas Paine, widerlegt, etc. (Paderborn, 1797, 2d edition; Minster, 1802): — Neue Auslegungsart des alten Testaments von Wecklein, Prof. zu Muinster, widerlegt (Dorsten, 1806): — Neue der Gottheit Jesu nachtheilige Auslegung des I Capitel des Evangel. Joh. von Muth, Prof. in Erfurt, widerlegt (ibid. 1807): — Wo ist die alteste und vornehmrste bischofliche Kirchs in der ganzen Christenheit? Bei den Griechen oder bei den Lateinern? (Paderborn, 1815): — Ueber die Ankunft des hl. Apostel Petrus nach Romn mund Antiochia, und einige vorgebliche alte Streitigkeiten mehrerer Bischofe wider die Pdpste (ibid. 1816): — Anmerkungen uber die neuen deutschen Uebersetzungen des N.T. durch Carl und Leander van Esz, auch besonders iber den bestraften Cephas (ibid. 1817): — Historia religionis Christianae in compendia et ordine chronico exhibita, tom. 1, ab anno 1-326 (ibid. 1818). See Waitzenegger, Gelehrten- und Schriftsteller Lexikon der deutschen katholischen Gistlichkeit, 2:18 sq,
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Molkenbuhr, Marcellin'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​m/molkenbuhr-marcellin.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.