Family of Hurter

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Friedrich Emmanuel von Hurter

Convert and historian, b. at Schaffhausen, 19 March, 1787; d. atGraz, 27 August, 1865. From 1804 to 1806 he attended the University of Gottingen, and in 1808 was appointed to a countryparish. The appearance in 1834 of the first volume of the life ofInnocent III, on which he had been working for twenty years, caused a profound sensation in bothCatholic andProtestant circles, and was soon translated into French, English, Italian, and Spanish. Hurter was chosen in 1835antistes of theclergy in the canton of Schaffhausen, and later president of theschool board, in which capacities he laboured with greatzeal. During many years his manifest sympathy and intimacy with theCatholicclergy, including theArchbishop ofFreiburg and thepapalnuncios toSwitzerland, and his disinterested efforts to assistCatholics roused the antagonism of his colleagues who took the first pretext to let loose a storm of abuse against Hurter. As a result he resigned his dignities in 1841, lived in retirement for three years, and in 1844 went toRome, where on 16 June he made his profession offaith beforeGregory XVI, hisconversion being the signal for renewed attacks. In 1846 he was appointed imperial counsellor and historiographer at the Court ofVienna, and took up the task assigned him, the life of Emperor Ferdinand II, which, however, was withheld from the press by the court censors, but appeared later at Schaffhausen. The Revolution of 1848 involved the loss of Hurter's position at Court, to which, however, he was restored in 1852. Till his death he laboured for the spread ofCatholic religion, especially in connexion with the foreign mission field; he was also in close touch with the greatest scholars of the day. He was appointed by thepope a commander of the Order of St. Gregory, and was a member of the academics ofRome,Munich,Brussels, andAssisi. In addition to his "Leben Innocenz III" (4 vols., Hamburg, 1834-42), Hurter was the author of "Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem lezen Dezennium des 18 Jahrhunderts" (1840); "Geburt and Widergeburt" (Schaffhausen, 1845-46), an autobiography; "Geschichte Kaiser Ferdinands II. und seiner Eltern" (Schaffhausen, 1850-65); "Philipp Lang, Kammerdiener Kaiser Rudolfs II. (Schaffhausen, 1851); "Beiträge zur Geschichte Wallensteins" (Freiburg im Br., 1855); "Französische Feindseligkeiten gegen Oesterreich zur Zeit des dreizigjährigen Krieges" (Vienna, 1859); "Wallensteins vier letzte Lebensjahre" (1862).

Heinrich von Hurter

Son of the preceding, b. at Schaffhausen, 8 August 1825; d. atVienna, 30 May 1895. He wasordained to thepriesthood in 1851, and later appointed to abenefice atVienna. Besides volumes ofsermons, his writings include; "Konzil und Unfehlbarkeit" (1870); "Schönheit und Wahrheit der katholischen Kirche" (9 vols., 1871-78); "Friedrich von Hurter und seine Zeit" (2 vol., 1876).

Hugo von Hurter

Distinguishedtheologian; b. at Schaffhausen, 11 January, 1832;ordainedpriest in 1855. From 1849 to 1856 he studied at the Germanicum inRome, where he was made doctor ofphilosophy andtheology. In 1857 he entered into theSociety of Jesus, and in 1858 was appointed to thetheological faculty of theUniversity of Innsbruck. His chief works are: "Theologiae dogmaticae compendium" (3 vols., Innsbruck, 1876-78; 11th ed., 1903); "Nomenclator litterarius theolgiae catholicae" (3 vols., Innsbruck, 1871-86; 3rd ed., 5 vols., 1903); "Medulla theologiae dogmaticae" (2 vols., Innsbruck, 1870; 7th ed., 1902). He also edited the collection "Selecta opuscula SS. Patrum" (54 vols., 1868-92).

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