Conrad Eugen Franz Rosshirt
Conrad Eugen Franz Rosshirt [1]
a Roman Catholic divine, was born in 1793 at Oberscheinfeld, in Franconia. He studied at Landshut and Erlargen, and in 1817 he was already professor of canon law in the latter place. He was one of the oldest professors of canon law in Germany, and died June 4, 1873, at Heidelberg. He wrote, Lehrbuch des Kirchenrechts (3d ed. Schaffhausen, 1858): — Von den falschen Decretalen u. von einigen neuen in Bamberg entdeckten Handschriften der falschen Decretalen (Heidelb. 1846): — Zu den kirchen rechtlichen Quellen des ersten Jahrtausends und zu den pseudoisidorischen Decretalen (ibid. 1849): — Canonisches Recht (Schaffhausen, 1857): — Manuale Latinitatis Juris Canonici, Rerum Moralium et Theologicarum, Brevissimis Annotationibus Instructum, quo Lexici Juris Canonici Lineamenta Proponere Studuit (ibid. 1862): — Beitrage zum Kirchenrecht (Heidelb. 1863). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. p. 1088; Literar. Handweiser, 1873, p. 300. (B.P.)
