Johann Spörlein was a German Catholic

Catholic

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 church historian who was a native of Burk

Burk

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, today a neighborhood in the city of Forchheim

Forchheim

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. He was a prominent supporter of philosopher Anton Günther

Anton Günther

Anton Günther was an Austrian Roman Catholic philosopher whose work was condemned by the church as heretical tritheism.-Biography:...

 (1783-1863).

He studied philosophy

Philosophy

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 and theology

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 in Bamberg

Bamberg

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, receiving his ordination

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 in 1837. From February-1849 he was a professor of church history and church law at the Lyceum

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 in Bamberg. Among his written works are the following:

• Einige Grundsätze des Clemens von Alexandrien über griechische Philosophie und christliche Wissenschaft, aus seinen Schriften dargelegt (Some Principles of Clement of Alexandria
  Clement of Alexandria
  Titus Flavius Clemens , known as Clement of Alexandria , was a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria. Clement is best remembered as the teacher of Origen...
  
   on Greek Philosophy
  Greek philosophy
  Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire...
  
   and Christian Science, explained from his Writings), 1840
• Die Gegensätze in der Lehre des hl. Cyrillus und des Nestorius von der Menschwerdung Gottes (The Contrasts in the Teaching of the Holy Cyrillus
  Cyrillus
  Cyrillus, Greek jurist of the 5th century, was a professor in the ancient law college of Berytus , and one of the founders of the oecumenical school of jurists...
  
   and Nestorius
  Nestorius
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   of the Incarnation of God), 1853
• Briefe über die Günther'sche Philosophie Von einem katholischen Gottesgelehrten (Letters on Günther's philosophy from a Catholic scholar of God), 1855
• Die Verfolgung der Christen im römischen Reiche (The Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
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  ), 1858
• Die christliche Gesellschaftsordnung und die neue Zeit (The Christian Social Order and the New Era), 1866