FUNK, FRANZ XAVER VON German Catholic theologian, was born on Oct. 12, 1840, at Abtsgmund, and was educated at Tubingen, Rothenburg and Paris. In 1870 he became professor of theology and archaeology at Tubingen, where he died on Feb. 24, 1907.
Funk's most important publications concern the history of the early Church and include: Opera patrum apostolicorum (2 vols., 1878; 2nd ed., 1901) ; Die Echtheit der Ignatianischen Briefe (1883) ; Lehrbuch der kirchengeschichte (1886; 4th ed., 1902) ; Die A post olischen Konsti tutionen (1891) ; Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen and Unter suchungen (3 vols., 1897-1907) ; and Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum (2 vols., 1905).