Reinke, Laurentius

Reinke, Laurentius a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born February 6, 1797, at Langforden, Oldenburg. He studied at Munster and Bonn, took holy orders in 1822, and commenced his academical career at Munster in 1827. In 1831 he was professor, in 1834 doctor of theology, and in 1847 of philosophy, the latter degree being conferred on him "honoris causa." In 1852 Reinke was made capitular, in 1862 honorary member of the "Societe litteraire" of the Louvain University, in 1865 honorary member of the college of doctors of the Vienna theological faculty, and in 1866 "consultor congregationis de propaganda fide pro negotiis ritus orientalis." Reinke died June 4, 1879. He wrote, Exegesis Critica in Iesaiae cap. 52:13-53:12 (Munster, 1836): — Exegesis Critica in Iesaice cap. 2:2-4 (1838): — Die Weissagung von der Jungfrau und vom Immanuel (1848): — Ueber das

zukunftige gluckliche Loos des Stammes Juda (1849): — Beitrage zur Erklarung des alten Testaments (1851-72, 8 volumes): — Der Prophet Malachi (Giessen, 1856): — Die messianischen Psalmen (1857-58, 2 volumes): — Kurze Zusammenstellung aller Abweichungen vom hebr. Text in der Psalmenubersetzung der LXX. Und Vulgata, etc. (1858): — Die messianischen Weissagungen bei den grossen und kleinen Propheten des Alten Testaments (1859-62, 4 volumes): — Zur Kritik der alteren Versionen des Propheten Nahum (Miinster, 1867): — Der Prophet Haggai (1868): — Der Prophet Zephanja (eod.): — Dea Prophet Habakuk (1870): — Der Prophet Micha (1874). (B.P.)