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Scriptural scholar, born 20 March, 1827, at Düsseldorf; died atBonn, 11 July, 1907. He attended the gymnasium in his native city, studiedtheology at theUniversity of Bonn from 1846 to 1849, and wasordainedpriest at Cologne on 3 September, 1850. For several years he was engaged on the mission in various stations of the Diocese of Cologne, until in 1859 he was appointed lecturer at theKonvikt ortheologicalschool atBonn. In 1862 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from theUniversity of Würzburg in virtue of a commentary on the Book of Jonas; in 1863 he obtained a chair ofOld Testamentexegesis at theUniversity of Bonn; in 1880 and 1882 he was appointed extraordinary and ordinary professor oftheology at the sameuniversity; in 1890 he was raised to the dignity of a domesticprelate byLeo XIII; in 1900 he received the grand cross of the Order of theKnights of the Holy Sepulchre, and in 1903 he was made a member of theBiblical Commission. During the same year (1903) he was compelled to give up teaching owing to an apoplectic stroke.
The study of theBible was Kaulen's aim from the beginning. He kept it before his mind even when engaged in the ministry or in the conferences at thetheologicalschool of Bonn; and nearly all his works refer to it or kindred subjects. His principal works are: (1) "Lingu Mandschuric Institutiones", a grammar of the Manchu language (Ratisbon, 1875); (2) "Die Sprachverwirrung zu Babel", or the confusion of languages at Babel (Mainz, 1861); (3) "Librum Jonae exposuit Fr. Kaulen", or a commentary on the Book of Jonas (Mainz, 1862); (4) "Geschichte der Vulgata", or a history of theVulgate (Mainz, 1861); (5) "Sprachliches Handbuch zur biblischen Vulgata", or a linguistic manual to theLatin Vulgate (Mainz, 1870); (6) "Einleitung in die Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testamentes", or Introduction to theSacred Scripture of the Old andNew Testament (Freiburg, 1876-86); (7) "Assyrien und Babylonien" (1876); (8) "Der biblische Schöpfungsbericht", or the Biblical account of the creation (Freiburg, 1902); (9) "Thomas von Villanova, ein Büchlein von der göttlichen Liebe", or a book on Divinelove (Freiburg, 1872); (10) three books of devotion, "Alleluja", "Brot der Engel" or Bread of the Angels, and "Die ewige Anbetung" or the perpetual adoration. The books of Kaulen were much in demand; some — e.g. the grammar to theVulgate, the "Introduction" and "Assyria and Babylon" — passed through several editions.
A lasting monument of histheological learning is found in the second edition of the "Kirchenlexikon". The first edition of his work which comprised 11 volumes, a supplement, and a general index, was issued by the publishing firm of BenjaminHerder. A second edition soon appearednecessary: in 1877 the editorship was entrusted toDr. Joseph Hergenröther, then professor inWürzburg, but, at the elevation of the latter to thecardinalate in 1879, was finally given to Dr. Kaulen, who presided over the work until it was completed. The new or second edition comprises twelve volumes and a general index; the first volume appeared in 1886, the last in 1901, and the index, prepared by the Rev. Hermann Joseph Kamp, with an introduction on the divisions oftheology by Dr. Melchior Abfalter, in 1903. Kaulen was helped in this gigantic enterprise by theRev. Dr. Hermann Streber, by the Rev. A. M. Weiss, O.P., who prepared the catalogue of subjects, and by a large number of learned contributors, the list of whom is given at the end of the last volume. The part taken by Kaulen consisted in editing the articles contributed, in revising several articles taken over from the first edition, and in contributing many articles of his own; the enumeration of his personal contributions fills almost five columns in the general list of contributors. The selection of Kaulen for this greattheological work was most fortunate. In the preface to the first volume, written in 1882, he declared that the articles should combine depth of learning withecclesiastical correctness and a clear, intelligible presentation of the subject, which programme was carried out through the entire work.
Mitteilungen der Herderschen Verlagshandlung (Freiburg, September, 1908);Der Katholik, no. vi (Mainz, 1907).
APA citation.Schaefer, F.(1910).Franz Philip Kaulen. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08611a.htm
MLA citation.Schaefer, Francis."Franz Philip Kaulen."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 8.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1910.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08611a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Czeglédi Erzsébet.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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