 He then returned to Germany, and worked for a short time as chaplain in the church of St. Adelgunde at Emmerich.Malou, bishop of Bruges, in Rome in 1854 when Jungmann made his public defence of the philosophical theses, called him in September, 1861, to the chair of philosophy in the Petit Séminaire at Roeselare.Four years later (1865) he became professor of theology in the ecclesiastical seminary at Bruges.