Wetzer, HEINRICH JOSEPH

Wetzer, HEINRICH JOSEPH, joint-editor with Benedikt Welte of the great Roman Catholic theological encyclopædia, was born at Anzefahr in Hesse, March 19, 1801, studied at Marburg, Tübingen, and Paris, became professor of Oriental Philology at Tübingen in 1830, and died in Freiburg, November 5, 1853. He began the publication of the Kirchen-Lexikon der Katholischen Theologie in 1846; the 12th volume appeared in 1860. A new edition was begun by Hergenröther, and continued by F. Kanlen (1882 et seq.).