Franz Quirin von Kober

Franz Quirin von Kober (1821 to 1897) was a German Roman Catholic priest, known as a canon lawyer and pedagogist. Born at Warthausen in Württemberg, he studied at the Wilhelmsstift seminary in Tübingen from 1840 to 1844 and was ordained priest at Rottenburg am Neckar in 1845. After half a year of pastoral work at Ulm he became a tutor in the Tübingen seminary, and from 1848 he taught canon law. He became extraordinary professor of Catholic theology in 1851 and ordinary professor of canon law and pedagogy in 1857. He wrote on church penal law with a historico-legal method, including Der Kirchenbann (1857), Die Suspension der Kirchendiener (1862) and Die Deposition und Degradation (1867), and he contributed essays to the Theologische Quartalschrift and to the Freiburg Kirchenlexikon.