Reinkens,

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 631

Reinkens, JOSEPH HUBERT (1821-96), was born near Aix-la-Chapelle, where he worked in a factory before he studied for the priesthood. In 1853 he became professor at Breslau, and in 1873, a strenuous opponent of the infallibility decrees, was chosen bishop by the Old Catholics (q.v.).

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