Friedrich Heinrich Vering

Friedrich Heinrich Vering (1833 to 1896) was a German canon lawyer and defender of the Catholic Church against the State, born at Liesborn in Westphalia. After the gymnasium at Paderborn he studied law at Bonn and Heidelberg and graduated at Heidelberg in 1856, where he became privatdocent of Roman and canon law in 1857 and professor extraordinary in 1862. In 1875 he took the chair of canon law at the new university of Czernowitz in Bukovina, and in 1879 he became professor of canon law at the German University of Prague, a post he held until his death. His best known work is the textbook Lehrbuch des katholischen, orientalischen und protestantischen Kirchenrechts (1876); he also wrote on the history and institutions of Roman private law and on Roman inheritance law, and he edited the Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht.