Jakob Frohschammer

Jakob Frohschammer (born Jan. 6, 1821, Illkofen, Bavaria [Germany]—died June 14, 1893, Bad Kreuth) was a Roman Catholic priest, prolific writer, and philosopher who was excommunicated for claiming that philosophy and church authority are autonomous. Ordained in 1847, Frohschammer lectured in philosophy from 1850 at the University of Munich (professor from 1855), where he began publishing his first important and controversial works, Über den Ursprung der menschlichen Seelen: Rechtfertigung des Generationismus (1854; “On the Origin...