VITA AUCTORIS 



The writer of this dissertation was born in Volkerode, in the 

 Province of Saxony, Germany, March 26, 1883. After attending 

 the public school of his native town for seven years, he came to this 

 country in 1895 and entered St. Joseph Seminary, Teutopolis, Illi- 

 nois, from which he was graduated in June, 1902. In the same 

 month he entered the Order of Friars Minor in the Province of the 

 Sacred Heart, pursuing his rhetorical and philosophical studies in 

 Chicago, Illinois, from 1903 to 1906, and his theological studies in 

 St. Louis, Missouri, from 1906 to 1910. He was ordained to the 

 holy priesthood on June 25, 1909. From 1910 to 1917 he was a 

 member of the faculty of St. Joseph Seminary, Teutopolis, Illinois. 

 He then spent two years at the University of Chicago in the study 

 of biology, physiology, and psychology, and three semesters at the 

 Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. 



