Joseph Hontheim | |
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Born | Olewig, Germany | 18 July 1858
Died | 2 February 1929 South Holland, Netherlands | (aged 70)
Occupation | Theologian |
Joseph Hontheim (18 July 1858 – 2 February 1929) was a Catholic Christian theologian chiefly remembered for corresponding with Georg Cantor to formulate the mental concept of the infinite, and for the publications Institutiones theodicaeae: sive theologiae naturalis secundum principia S. Thomae Aquinatis (1893)[1] and Hell (1910).