Franz Michel Willam put on Vinzentinum 1914 in Bressanone from the Matura. After a subsequent study of 1917 he received the priesthood. In addition to various activities chaplain he continued to study and graduated in 1921, his studies with a doctorate in theology from Vienna. In the 1920s he also began his literary activity. On behalf of the publishing house Herder, he wrote "The Life of Jesus in the land and people of Israel." This work appeared in 1933, and 1960 reached ten editions and was translated into eleven languages. In 1934 he was chaplain in Andelsbuch, where he remained until his death._x000D_

Williams works include 33 books and 372 articles, which were published in 79 different journals. "The life of Jesus in the land and people of Israel" was his most important work. The aim of this book was to make people's lives and thus the person of Jesus - to provide in narrative form in mind - based on the Gospels, whose contents he did fill through his ethnographic studies of life. Pope Benedict XVI. Willam mentioned in the preface to his book on Jesus and counts him among the authors of "Jesus-inspiring books" in the 30s and 40s. Willam also made ​​himself a name as a Newman-researchers. In 1965, Franz Michel Willam was Landesehrenzeichenrat of the medal awarded to the province of Vorarlberg in gold.