Feyerabend, Maurus

Feyerabend, Maurus a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born October 7, 1754. In 1777 he took holy orders; was for some time teacher in the monastery at Ottobeueren, in Suabia; when it was closed in 1802, lived in literary retirement, and died March 8, 1818. He translated into German theEpistles of Gregory the Great (Kempten, 1807): — his Homilies (ibid. 1810): — and the Writings of Cyprian (Munich, 1817). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschland, 1:404 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:906 907. (B.P.)