Ernricus Pirhing (born at Sigarthin, near Passau, 1606; died between 1678 and 1681) was a German Jesuit

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Life

At the age of twenty-two he entered the

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, 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.

Works

His "Jus canonicum in V libros Decretalium distributum" (5 vols., Dillingen, 1674–77; 4 vols., Dillingen, 1722; 5 vols., Venice, 1759) maintains the classical divisions of the ''

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'', but gives too 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

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, which were resumed in his "Jus Canonicum"; and an "Apologia" against two sermons of the Protestant Balduinus (

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, 1652; Munich, 1653). After his death, one of his colleagues published a "Synopsis Pirhingana", or résumé of his "Jus Canonicum" (Dillingen, 1695; Venice, 1711).

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, ''Bibliothèque des écrivains de la C. de J.'' (Liège, 1872), II, 1999; **

Johann Friedrich von Schulte Johann Friedrich von Schulte (April 23, 1827 – December 19, 1914) was a German legal historian and professor of canon law who was born in Winterberg, Westphalia. He was a leading authority on Catholic canon law. In 1854 he became a lecturer at ...

, ''Die Gesch. der Quellen u. Literatur des kanonischen Rechts'' (Stuttgart, 1880), III, 143. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pirhing, Ernricus 1606 births 1681 deaths 17th-century German Jesuits Canon law jurists