The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Funk, Franz Xaver von

FUNK, Franz Xaver von, German Catholic theologian: b. Abts-Gmünd, Württemberg, 1840; d. 1907. He received his education at Tübingen and at the Rottenburg Seminary, and also at Paris, where he paid special attention to economics. He became professor of theology at the University of Tübingen in 1870 and in 1876 became a member of the editorial staff of the Theologische Quartalschrift there. He published ‘Opera Patrum Apostolicorum’ (1878; 2d ed., 1901); ‘Lehrbuch der kirchengeschichte’ (1886; 4th ed., 1902); ‘Die apostolischen Konstitutionen’ (1891); ‘Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen und Untersuchungen’ (1899).