Anton Birlinger
Anton Birlinger (14 January 1834 in Wurmlingen (Rottenburg), Wurmlingen near Rottenburg am Neckar – 15 June 1891 in Bonn) was a German Catholic theologian and Germanist. Life and work Birlinger studied Catholic theology and German studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, University of Tübingen from 1854 to 1858. He then went to the Rottenburg Seminary and was ordained there in 1859. In 1861 he went to Munich, in particular to continue his German studies with Alois Josef Vollmer (1803–1876). He immediately made a name for himself with a collection of idioms and sagas, but also through his own literary experiments, finally as the editor of folklore works and dialect dictionaries. In addition, in Munich he came even more under the influence of an enlightened theology with a scientific basis and with a willingness to contradict dogmas coming from Rome (Ignaz von Döllinger, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Friedrich (theologian), Johann Friedrich, Jakob Frohschammer an ...
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