Ginzel, Joseph Augustin

Ginzel, Joseph Augustin a Roman Catholic theologian of Austria, was born in 1804 at Reichenberg, studied at Vienna, was in 1834 professor of ethics, in 1843 professor of Church history and canon law at the clerical seminary in Leitmeritz, Bohemia, and died June 1, 1876. He wrote, Legatio Apostolica Petri Aloysii (Wurzburg, 1840): — Geschichte der Kirche (Vienna, 1846-47, 2 volumes): — Die canonische Lehrweise der Geisflichen (Ratisbon, 1852): — Handbuch des neuesten in Oesterreich geltenden Kirchenrechtes (Vienna, 1857, 2 volumes): — Geschichte der Slawenapostel Cyrill (Leitmeritz, eod.): — Bischof Hurdalek (Prague; 1873): — Kirchen- historische Schriften (Vienna, 1872, 2 volumes). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:440 sq.; Literarischer Handweiser fur das Katholische Deutschland, 1876, col. 288. (B.P.)