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Peter Joseph Elvenich

Peter Joseph Elvenich (January 29, 1796 – June 16, 1886) was a German Catholic theologian and philosopher born in Embken, a village that today is part of Nideggen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Following the papal decrees of September 26, 1835 and January 7, 1836, of which Pope Gregory XVI condemned writings issued by Georg Hermes, Elvenich, along with Johann Wilhelm Joseph Braun (1801-1863), traveled to Rome in order to the convince the Pope to revise the decrees of condemnation.



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