December 8: Von Dem Letzten Dingen

Michael Schmaus died on this date in 1993. This German Catholic theologian composed his massive, influential, six-volume "Dogma" between 1938 and 1941 while teaching in Prague. From 1946 until retiring in 1965 he taught at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, where he was a mentor to the current Pope, then Joseph Ratzinger. Schmaus also composed a book in 1948 on apocalyptic portents, "On the Last Things" (Von Dem Letzten Dingen), affirming the coming of the events of Revelation.