Bangen, Johann Heinrich

Bangen, Johann Heinrich, a Roman Catholic theologian and jurist of Germany, was born at Rheda in 1823; was made a priest in 1849; in 1856 was appointed ecclesiastical counsellor and defensor miatrimonii et promotor fiscali, and in 1862 cathedral, dean. He died Oct. 31, 1865, at Tivoli, near Rome. He wrote, Die romische Curie, ihre gegenwirtige Zusammensetzug und ihr Geschaftsgang (Miunster, 1854): — Instructio Practica de Sponsalibus et Matrimonio (ibid. 1858-60). See Zuchold,' Bibl. Theol. i, 68; Literar. Hand. fur das katholische Deutsch., 1866, col. 80. (B. P.)