Wilhelm Wilmers (b. at Boke in Westphalia, 30 January 1817; d. at Roermond, Netherlands, 9 May 1899) was a German Jesuit professor of philosophy and theology.
After a brief residence at Bonn and Munster, he went to Ordrupshoj near Copenhagen where he wrote against the attacks on the Catholic Church by the Protestant preacher Martensen. This work was translated into Danish by the prefect Apostolic Hermann Grüder and published under the latter's name with the title: "Det protestaniske og katholiske Trosprincip" (Copenhagen, 1875).
In 1876 Wilmers was called by Cardinal Archbishop Louis Pie to the theological faculty of Poitiers. In 1880 he lectured on theology to the French Jesuits in Saint Helier, Jersey. Thenceforward he devoted himself entirely to writing, living first at Ditton Hall, England, and then at Exaten[1] in the Netherlands.[2]
Worksedit
Besides the above treatise, Wilmers wrote:
"Lehrbuch der Religion" (1855–57);
"Geschichte der Religion" (1856), translated into several languages;
"Lehrbuch der Religion fur höhere Lehranstalted" (1869);
"Handbuch der Religion" (1871).
These treatises were frequently republished. His last works were "De religione revelata" and "De Christi ecclesia" (1897); he nearly finished the third volume of this series "De fide divine", which was published in 1902.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Scheid, Nikolaus (1912). "Wilhelm Wilmers". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15., the entry cites:
Tholen, Menologium oder Lebensbilder aus der Gesch. der deutschen Ordensprovinz (Roermond, 1891), printed for private circulation.
December 20, 2023
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