Ernricus Pirhing

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Jesuit

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Pirhing Henricus, Bavarian, S.J., celebrated canonist (Method of Canon Law, etc.), died around 1670.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXVI, sign read on the page)

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“Cf. Pirhing, Reiffenstuel, and Schmalzgrueber, places cited”Vermeersch: the canonists afterward used reasons like the theologians’ against usury

Vermeersch, Quaestiones de iustitia, n. 360

Works Our Authors Used

Pirhing, S.J., died 1679, Jus canonicum in 5 libros Decretalium distributum, Dillingen, 1674. — Tanquerey's list

In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

“Ernricus Pirhing”, vol. 12, by Alphonse Van Hove. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).

Born at Sigarthin, near Passau, 1606; died between 1678 and 1681. At the age of twenty-two he entered the Society of Jesus, where he gave instruction in the Sacred Sciences. He taught canon law and Scripture for twelve years at Dillingen, where he was still living in 1675. His "Jus canonicum in V libros Decretalium distributum" (5 vols., Dillingen, 1674-77; 4 vols., Dillingen, 1722; 5 vols., Venice, 1759) marks a progress in canonical science in Germany, for although he maintains the classical divisions of the "Corpus Juris", he gives a complete and synthetic explanation of the canonical legislation of the matters which he treats. He published also, under the form of theses, seven pamphlets on the titles of the first book of the Decretals, which were resumed in his "Jus Canonicum"; and an "Apologia" against two sermons of the Protestant Balduinus (Ingolstadt, 1652; Munich, 1653). After his death one of his colleagues published a "Synopsis Pirhingana", or résumé of his "Jus Canonicum" (Dillingen, 1695; Venice, 1711).

Sources: DE BACKER-SOMMERVOGEL, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la C. de J. (Liège, 1872), II, 1999; SCHULTE, Die Gesch. der Quellen u. Literatur des kanonischen Rechts (Stuttgart, 1880), III, 143.