Franz Xaver von Funk

Franz Xaver von Funk (1840–1907) was a German Catholic theologian, born at Abts-Gmund, Württemberg, and educated at Tübingen, at the seminary of Rottenburg am Neckar, and in Paris, where he studied economics. In 1870 he was appointed professor of theology at Tübingen and in 1876 became an editor of the Tübingen Theologische Quartalschrift. His principal publications are:

• Opera Patrum Apostolicorum (1878; second edition, 1901)
• Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte (1886; fourth edition, 1902) (published in English as "A Manual of Church History". Translated from the German by P. Perciballi and edited by W. H. Kent. In two volumes, London, Burns & Oates, 1914.)
• Die apostolischen Konstitutionen (1891) — Funk thought the apostolic constitutions were written as late as the beginning of the fifth century
• Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen und Untersuchungen (1897–1899)

References

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.