Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen
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Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen (24 September 1823 - 9 April 1900) was a German jurist. He was professor in Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna, the member of Austrian imperial law court and chamber of gentlemen. Besides fundamental research about the sources of canonical right (Geschichte der Quellen und Litteratur des canonischen Rechts the them Abendlande bis zum Ausgange des Mitelalter, Vol. I, Graz, 1870), M of napech.: Der Primat des Bischofs von Rom (Bonn, 1853), Über die Gründe des Kampfes zwischen dem heidnischen Staate und dem Christentum( Vienna, 1882), etc. Of overall interest is for its time work Neun Kapitel über freie Kirche und Wissenfreiheit (Graz, 1876; Russian transfer with preface H of Suvorov, Yarosl., 1882), in whom Maassen plans the basic features of the development of the relations between the state and the church. The beginnings of the freedom of church and freedom of conscience it is equal, in his opinion, they are substantiated in the very essence of Christianity and are located between themselves in the intercommunication, so indissoluble that the acknowledgement and conducting of one of them depends on acknowledgement and conducting of the second.
