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Jerome was no philosopher. As Jesuit Father Ferdinand Cavallera writes, "There is no great mind less speculative than his." Unlike his contemporary, St. Augustine, he did not help produce the theology he defended. He was, however, a literary man of great learning, as particular about his Ciceronian clauses as he was about the doctrine of the Trinity. It was significant that the humanists of the Italian Renaissance, similar in their tastes, admired Jerome, while looking down on other church fathers as uncultured and dull...
...Ferdinand Waldo Demara...
...when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, Political Editor Ferdinand Peroutka, along with other staffers who opposed the Nazis, was thrown into concentration camp. Not till 1945 was Peroutka released. Back in Prague, he took over as Lidove Noviny editor in chief and fought the Communist infiltration of the government as bitterly as he had fought the Nazis. During the Red coup in 1948, the Communists fired him and other anti-Red staffers. In his last editorial, Peroutka warned: "Even if you Communists now take possession of Lidove Noviny . . . what will you have taken possession of? Nothing more than the twelve letters...
Your researchers are slightly off the beam on their Habsburgs. The Jan. 28 issue announces the death of Archduke Maximilian Eugene of Austria, referring to him as the younger brother of the Emperor Charles and son of Francis Ferdinand who was assassinated at Sarajevo. He was Charles's brother, right enough, but both were nephews of Francis Ferdinand and sons of the heir's younger brother, Otto Francis Joseph. Francis Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie Hohenberg was morganatic, and their children had no claim to the throne. Sic transit . . . but not that fast...
Died. Archduke Maximilian Eugene von Hohenberg of Habsburg, 56, younger brother of Charles Francis Joseph, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary; of a heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo -the spark that touched off World War I -Maximilian took command of an Austrian infantry battalion, won decorations for valor in fighting the Italians. After the Armistice, he was mostly in flight, in exile, or in the Nazis' "protective custody," ended up a forgotten anachronism living under the alias...