Thanner, Ignaz a Roman Catholic divine, was born Feb. 9, 1770, at Neumarkt, in Bavaria. In 1802 he was appointed professor of catechetics at Salzburg; in 1805 professor of philosophy at Landshut; in 1808 he was called to Innspruck, and in 1810 to Salzburg again, where he died, May 28, 1856. At first he belonged to the Kantian philosophical school, but soon became converted to that of Schelling. He wrote, Der Transcendentalismus in seiner drei. fachen Steigerung (Munich, 1805): —Die Idee des Organismus (ibid. 1806): —Handbuch der Vorbereitung zum selbststündigen wissenschaftlichen Studium (ibid. 1807, 2 vols.): —Darstellung der absoluten Identititslehre (ibid. 1810): —Logische Aphorismen (Salzburg, 1811): —Lehr und Handbuch der tuoeoretischen und praktischen Philosophie (ibid. 1811, 2 vols.): —Wissenschaftliche Aphorismen der kathol. Dogmatik (ibid. 1816). See Winer, Handb. der theol. Literatur, 1, 306; 2, 800; Regensburger Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More