Franz Michel Willam, the Theologian the Pope Has Rescued from Oblivion (Chiesa)

Author in 1932 of a famous life of Christ, he had been forgotten by everyone. Benedict XVI cites him in "Jesus of Nazareth," and an Austrian scholar explains why. Based on unpublished correspondence between the two.
by Sandro Magister

ROMA, July 3, 2007 – In the first lines of the preface to “Jesus of Nazareth,” Benedict XVI recalls that at the time of his youth, in the 1930’s and ‘40’s, “there was a series of inspiring books about Jesus.”

And he mentions some of the authors: Romano Guardini, Karl Adam, Daniel Rops, Giovanni Papini, Franz Michel Willam.

The first four, and especially the first two, are still fairly well known and read. But not the last. Franz Michel Willam (1894-1981) is today a name among the most thoroughly forgotten. Fallen into oblivion.

So why does Joseph Ratzinger cite him?

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