DROSTE-VISCHERING, CLEMENS AUGUST, BARON VON (1773-1845), German Roman Catholic divine, was born at Munster on Jan. 21, 1773, and entered the priesthood in 1798, being elected vicar-general by the local chapter in 1807. This office he resigned in 1813 through his opposition to Napoleon, but assumed it again after the battle of Waterloo (1815) until a disagreement with the Prussian Government in 182o led to his abdication. In 1835, he was appointed archbishop of Cologne, but a further quarrel with the Prussian Government over mixed marriages led to his imprisonment for two years. Droste was not re-installed but was obliged to accept a coadjutor. His chief works were : Uber die Religionsfreiheit der Katjioliken (1817), and Uber den Frieden under der Kirche and den Staaten See Herzog-Hauck, Realencyk., and H. Kipper, "Droste-Vischering" in Frankfurter Zeitgemdsse Broschifiren (Hamm, 1908) .