Mainz, Kirchheim, 1904. First edition.
Cloth hard covers with gilt spine titles, octavo, floral decorated pastedowns and endpapers, 105 and 89 pages.

The two separately published Catholic critiques of Luther are bound in a single volume

“Paul Majunke (14. July 1842 - 21st May 1899 in Hochkirch at Glogau ) was a German Catholic priest, journalist and politician of the Centre Party .

Majunke studied from 1861 to 1866 theology and jurisprudence at the University of Breslau and attained a doctorate in theology in Rome. Then he traveled through Europe. In 1867 Majunke was ordained a priest. Subsequently he was a chaplain in Neusalz Oder active and in Wroclaw. Later he was editor of the Cologne Volkszeitung of Julius Bachem . In 1870 he was dismissed because his writing style appeared to be too sharp. Then he was temporarily pastor in Glogau.

Since 1871 he was the first editor of the newly founded newspaper Germania. This journal was the Centre Party very close. Headed by Majunke was the Germania to a leading Catholic newspapers. In Kulturkampf Majunke wrote numerous sharp articles in defense of the Catholic cause against the Prussian government.

Since 1874 to 1884 was Majunke deputy of the Centre Party in the Reichstag and from 1878 to 1884 member of the Prussian House of Representatives.

Due to its press articles Majunke was prosecuted for press offenses and lese majeste and was sentenced to two years in prison. His actual arrest in 1874 triggered wide criticism of all political parties, because they disregarded the parliamentary immunity. In the episode was Otto von Bismarck even resign. The application was built by Emperor William I but rejected.

With the easing of the Kulturkampf strove also the Catholic camp to de-escalation. Because the uncompromising Article Majunkes were opposed to this goal, he lost his leading position in the newspaper Germania. Instead, he was since 1878-1884 editor of the "Center-correspondence".

When he was 1884 not reelected, he became pastor in Hochkirch. He remained active as a writer and now turned sharply against the Protestant Prussian. By its intransigence, he brought his party temporarily embarrassed, an appreciable effect had his writings but no more.”
From Wikipedia, machine translated from German.

“For some time previous it had been known that Denifle was engaged on such a work, but when in 1904 the first volume of 860 pages of "Luther und Luthertum in der ersten Entwicklung quelienmässig darstellt" appeared, it fell like a bomb into the midst of the Reformer's admirers. The edition was exhausted in a month. The leading Protestants and rationalists in Germany, Seeberg, Harnack, and seven other professors, besides a host of newspaper writers attempted to defend Luther, but in vain. Denifle's crushing answer to Harnack and Seeberg, "Luther in rationalistischer und christlicher Beleuchtung" appeared in March, 1904, and two months afterwards he issued a revised edition of the first part of the first volume; the second was brought out in 1905 and the third in 1906 by A. Weiss, O.P. He has the second volume on Lutheranism, for which the author left materials, ready (1908) for the press. “ (from the Catholic Encyclopedia)

CONDITION:

Ex- seminary library copy with stamps and label on Title pages.
Very Good. (Adhesive residue on small area of front board and on rear pastedown. Contents are complete, clean and intact. Binding is tight.)