Quotes:Görres, Johann Joseph von

Zirkoff, Boris

Görres, Johann Joseph von. German scholar and publicist, b. at Coblenz, Jan. 25, 1776; d. at Münich, Jan. 29, 1848. Studied at the Univ. of Bonn; joined the revolutionary movement in Rhenish Prussia, his dream being to unite these provinces with France; advocated in various papers his idea of the union of all civilized countries. Despairing of the cause of liberty, and a declared enemy of Napoleon, he occupied himself for a while teaching physics at Coblenz, 1800-06. For a time he edited an important political journal, 1814-16; his political ideas, unacceptable to the Government, forced him to flee. In time he took up a mystic and symbolic kind of religion, and, being always a Roman Catholic, he became the aggressive champion of the Church. Appointed prof. of history in the Univ. of Münich, 1826. Produced in the last years of his life a mass of brilliant polemical papers on questions of the day. Works: *Die Christliche Mystik. Regensburg und Landhut, 1836-42. 4 vols. 8vo.; new ed., Regensburg: G. J. Manz, 1879-80. 5 vols.—Deutschland und die Revolution, 2nd ed., 1819; Engl. tr., London, 1820.—Gesammelte Schriften. München, 1854-74. 9 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 418