Braig, Karl von Borromaeo

BRAIG, KARL VON BORROMAEO: German Roman Catholic; b. at Kanzach (a village near Buchau, 30 m. s.w. of Ulm) Feb. 10, 1853. He was educated at the University of Tübingen (Ph.D., 1877), where he was instructor in dogmatic theology in 1879–83, and was parish priest at Wildbad and district inspector of schools, except for tours of Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and England, from 1883 to 1893. In the latter year he was appointed associate professor of apologetics and dogmatics at the University of Freiburg, and four years later was promoted to his present position of full professor of the same subjects. He is also director of the dogmatic seminar in the university, and has written Zukunftsreligion des Unbewussten (Freiburg, 1882); Kunst des Gedankenlesens (Frankfort, 1886); Encyklopädie der theoretischen Philosophie (Stuttgart, 1886); Gottesbeweis oder Gottesbeweise? (1888); Apologie des Christentums (Freiburg, 1889); La Matière (Paris, 1891); Die Freiheit der philosophischen Forschung (Freiburg, 1894); Vom Denken (1896); Vom Sein (1896); Vom Erkennen (1897); Leibniz, sein Leben und die Bedeutung seiner Lehre (Frankfort, 1901); Zur Erinnerung an Franz Xavier Krauss (Freiburg, 1902); Wesen des Christentums (1903); and Der Papst und die Freiheit (1903).