Johann Adam Möhler

He was born at Igersheim in the Bailiwick of Franconia of the Teutonic Order (from 1809 on part of Württemberg), and after studying philosophy and theology in the lyceum at Ellwangen, entered the University of Tübingen in 1817.

The controversy aroused by his Symbolik (1832) was such that in 1835 he left for the University of Munich,[1] because of polemics with the Protestant Tübingen theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur.

[citation needed] In 1838 he was appointed to the deanery of Würzburg, but died shortly afterwards.

[1] He died young but was very influential for other theologians, such as Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar, and others.

The Symbolik is his most famous work; the interest excited by it in Protestant circles is shown by the fact that within two years of its appearance it had elicited three replies of considerable importance, those namely of FC Baur, PK Marheineke and KI Nitzsch.