=35. Writings of German Catholics, 1814–1870.=--During the 19th century, were placed upon the Index a larger proportion than in the earlier period of the writings of the Catholics of Germany, but the selection of the works so distinguished appears as heretofore to have been arrived at with no very definite policy or principle. It is evident that the books were not selected on the ground either of their relative heresy, of their scholarly importance, or of their popular influence. It seems probable that the condemnation of any particular work was dependent upon the accident of its title being brought to the attention of the Congregation. The names of a few of the more noteworthy authors in the list are specified below. Wessenberg, Vicar-General of Constance, _Die deutsche Kirche_, printed in 1806, condemned by a brief of Pius VII, in 1814. Dannemayer, _Institutiones Historiae Ecclesiasticae_, printed (in Vienna) in 1780, prohibited in 1820. Rechberger, _Enchiridion Juris Eccles. Austriaci_, printed in 1809, prohibited in 1819. Reyberger, _Institutiones Ethicae Christ._, printed in 1805–9, prohibited 1834. Bolzano Bernhard (professor of geology in Prague), _Stunden der Andacht_, printed in 1813, prohibited in 1828. It was largely on the ground of this work, which was published anonymously, that Bolzano was deposed from his professorship. _Lehrbuch der Religions-Wissenschaft_, printed in 1813, prohibited 1838. Brendel, Sabold, professor of law in Würzburg, _Handbuch des kath. und protest. Kirchenrechts_, etc., printed in 1823, prohibited in 1824. Brendel retained his professorship but was later ordered to give up instruction in canon law. Theiner, Anton., _Die katholische Kirche in Schlesien_ (published anonymously), printed in 1826, prohibited the same year. Müller, Alexander, _Handbuch des kath. und protest. Kirchenrechts_, printed 1829–1832, prohibited in 1833. It would appear that very few of the treatises on canon law or ecclesiastical jurisprudence were so written as to meet the approval of the Index authorities. Hirscher, J. B., a treatise on the mass, entitled _Missae Genuinam Notionem Eruere_, etc., printed in 1821, prohibited in 1823. Drey, G. S. von, a treatise on confession, entitled _Diss. Hist. theol. Originem et Vicissitudinem_, etc., printed, in 1815, prohibited in 1823. Gehringer, _Liturgik und Theorie der Seelsorge_, printed in 1848, prohibited in 1850.