Fischer, Gottfried Angelus

Fischer, Gottfried Angelus a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born at Munich, November 5, 1768. He was for some time professor of philosophy and history at.the gymnasium of his native place, received in 1817 a call as pastor to Niedervichbach, inBavaria, and died in 1836. He wrote, Lehre der Katholischen Kirche (Munich, 1819): — Predigten uber die acht Selig preisungen (ibid. 1834): — Vollstandiges Katholisches Religionslehrbuch (ibid. 1822, 1829): — Lese- und Gebetbuch fur junge Katholische Christen (Augsburg, 1827). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:465; 2:120, 243, 373. (B.P.)