After studying at the University of Würzburg from 1901 to 1902, he obtained his doctorate in theology in 1913 from the University of Innsbruck, which he had entered in 1908.
After studying at the University of Würzburg from 1901 to 1902, he forfeited a diplomatic career for an ecclesiastical one TIME Magazine. He then obtained his doctorate in theology in 1913 from the University of Innsbruck, which he had entered in 1908.