Fischer, Augustin

Fischer, Augustin a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born April 12, 1766. He was for some time teacher at the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt, accepted a call in 1813 as court-preacher and sub-regent of the seminary at Aschaffenburg, and died in 1816, leaving Lehrbuch der christlichen Religion, etc. (Erfurt, 1802; 6th ed. 1826). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:242. (B.P.)