ESS, JOHANN HEINRICH VAN German Catholic theologian, was born at Warburg, Westphalia, on Feb. 15, 1772. He became a Benedictine, and served as a priest at Schwalenberg from 1799 to 1812, after which, until 1822, he was professor of theology and joint-director of the teachers' seminary at Marburg. He died at Affolderbach in the Odenwald on Oct. 13, 1847.
His publications include a German trans. of the New Testament (1807) ; Ausziige aus den heiligen Vdtern u. anderen Lehrern der kath. Kirke caber das nothwendige u. niitzliche Bibellesen (18o8) ; Gedanken fiber Bibel u. Bibellehre (1816) ; Was war die Bibel den ersten Christen (1816) ; a German trans. of the Old Testament (1822 36) ; an edition of the Vulgate (1822-24) and of the Septuagint (1824).