Johann Sebastian von Drey [SEP] place of death
Johann Sebastian von Drey
Johann Sebastian von Drey (16 October 1777 – 19 February 1853) was a German Catholic professor of theology at the University of Tübingen. With Johann Adam Möhler, Drey was the founder of the so-called Catholic School of Tübingen.
Life.
He was born in Killingen, in the parish of Röhlingen, in the then ecclesiastical principality of Ellwangen.
The parish priest of Röhlingen, an ex-Jesuit, noting the boy's talents, instructed him in the elements of Latin,
there, in addition to the courses already entrusted to him, Herbst taught introduction to the Holy Scriptures and Biblical archæology; he also occasionally was prevailed upon to lecture on New Testament exegesis, church history, and pastoral theology. The new faculty of theology, which, with such men as Johann Sebastian von Drey, Johann Baptist von Hirscher, and Johann Adam Möhler on its staff, and pupils of the stamp of Carl Joseph von Hefele (1809-1893), was winning a conspicuous place in the realm of scholarship.