FUNK, FRANZ XAVER: German Roman Catholic; b. at Abtsgmünd, Württemberg, Oct. 12, 1840; d. at Tübingen Feb. 24, 1907. He studied in Tübingen (Ph.D., 1863) and at Rottenburg, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1864. He then studied for a year in Paris, and was lecturer in the Wilhelmstift at Tübingen 1866-70. In 1870 he was appointed professor of church history, patrology, and archeology at Tübingen. He wrote Zins und Wucher (Tubingen, 1868); Geschichte des kirchlichen Zinsverbotes (1876); Die Echtheit der ignatianischen Briefe (1882); Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte (Rottenburg, 1886); Doctrina duodecim apostolorum (Tübingen, 1887); Die katholische Lαndesuniversität Ellwangen (1889); Die apostolischen Konstitutionen (Rottenburg, 1891); Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen und Untersuchungen (3 vols., Paderborn, 1897-1907); Das Testament unseres Herrn und die verwandten Schriften (Mainz, 1901); and Didascalia et Constitutiones apostolorum (2 vols., 1905).