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Friedrich Emanuel von Hurter (1787–1865)
Hurter, Friedrich Emanuel, von (hör’ter). A Swiss theologian and historian; born at Schaffhausen, March 19, 1787; died at Gratz, Styria, Aug. 7, 1865. Appointed to a pastorate in his native town, he resigned in 1841, and became a convert to Catholicism. In 1846 he was selected as historiographer to the Emperor of Austria. Of his numerous works, relating chiefly to mediæval and church history, may be mentioned: ‘History of King Theodoric and his Reign’ (1807); ‘Pope Innocent III. and his Contemporaries’ (1834–42); ‘Birth and New Birth’ (1845), in which he gives his reasons for a change of religion; ‘Emperor Ferdinand II.’ (10 vols., 1850–62); ‘Last Four Years of the Life of Wallenstein’ (1862).