Atzberger, Leonhard

ATZBERGER, LEONHARD: Roman Catholic; b. at Velden (a village near Vilsviburg, 42 m. n.e. of Munich) July 23, 1854. He was educated at the Gymnasium and Lyceum of Freising and at the University of Munich. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1879, and three years later became privat-docent at Munich, where he was university preacher in 1886. In 1888 he was appointed associate professor of theology at the same university, and was promoted to full professor in 1894. He has written Die Logoslehre des heiligen Athanasius (Munich, 1880); Die Unsündlichkeit Christi (1883); Christliche Eschatologie in den Stadien ihrer Offenbarung im Alten and Neuen Testament (Freiburg, 1890); Der Glaube (1891); Geschichte der christlichen Eschatologie in der vornicänischen Zeit (1896); and Handbuch der katholischen Dogmatik (1898-1903; being the fourth volume of the work of the same title by M. J. Scheeben).