Franz Quirin von Kober
Franz Quirin von Kober (6 March 1821 – 25 January 1897) was a German Roman Catholic priest, a scholar of canon law, and an educator. He was born in Warthausen, Württemberg, and died in Tübingen.
He began his studies at the Latin school in Biberach, then entered the preparatory seminary at Ethigen on the Danube for Catholic theologians of Rottenburg. He studied at the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen from 1840 to 1844 and was ordained priest on 4 September 1845 in Rottenburg am Neckar. After some pastoral work in Ulm, he became a tutor at the Tübingen seminary, where he also lectured on philology and the Pauline Epistles.
From 1848 he taught canon law, opposing the Josephinist professor Warnkonig, in a region where canon law training had followed an Austrian tradition. On 28 January 1851 he became a professor extraordinary in Catholic theology, teaching pedagogy, didactics, and the Pauline Epistles. He was promoted to professor ordinary of canon law and pedagogy on 8 September 1857, after having served as professor extraordinary since 19 April 1853.
Kober wrote using a historico-legal method and treated various ecclesiastical-criminal topics, such as interdiction, corporal punishment of clerics and monks, imprisonment of clerics and monks, and monetary penalties in church law. He published many essays and lengthy treatises, mainly in Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht and especially in Theologische Quartalschrift of Tübingen. In Theologische Quartalschrift, he also contributed essays on canon law, including the origins and legal status of general vicars, the influence of the church and its laws on manners and civilization, medicine and church law, and the duties of church officials during persecutions and outbreaks of disease, as well as numerous book reviews.
Kober was also a frequent contributor to the first and second editions of the Freiburg Kirchenlexikon.
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