Dr. Fr. Heinrich Reusch

Franz Heinrich Reusch (4 December 1823 – 3 March 1900) was an Old Catholic theologian who was born at Brilon, in Westphalia, and studied general literature at Paderborn, and theology at Munich, Bonn, and Tübingen. A pupil and friend of Döllinger, he took a Doctor in Theology degree at Munich, was ordained a priest in 1849, and was immediately made chaplain at Cologne. In 1854 he became a Privatdozent in Old Testament studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Bonn and in 1858 was made extraordinary, then in 1861 ordinary, professor of theology at that university. From 1866 to 1877 he edited Bonner Theologisches Literaturblatt.