The Catholic Historical Review, July 1st, 2005
Baroness of the Ripetta: Letters of Augusta von Eichthal to Franz Xaver Kraus. By Robert Curtis Ayers. (Scottsdale, Arizona: Cloudbank Creations, Inc. 2004. Pp. iv, 245. $36.95 hardcover; $24.95 paperback.)
Franz Xaver Kraus (1840-1901), professor of Christian archaeology and church history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, is well known as a prolific writer and as an "eminence grise" as a church politician. He does not fit into the mainstream of German Catholicism. While criticizing his fellow Catholics for their political stance in the Center Party, he pleaded himself for a "religi...
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