Albert Maria Ammann

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Albert Maria Ammann SJ (born March 3, 1892 in Munich ; † August 8, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German church and art historian .

Life

The first son of Ottmar Ammann and Ellen Ammann attended the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich . In the summer of 1911 he moved to Feldkirch to the Jesuit college and joined the novitiate in Tisis . He studied philosophy in Valkenburg aan de Geul for three years . With the outbreak of war he did medical service in the famous military hospital 51. On June 23, 1923 he was ordained a priest. He was appointed to the Pontificio Istituto Orientale in October 1935 , and was made full professor in 1936. In 1948 he followed Guillaume de Jerphanion (1877-1948) to the chair of Christian archeology and Eastern Christian art.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ecclesiastical political changes in the East Baltic until the death of Alexander Newski. Studies on the Becoming of Russian Orthodoxy . Rome 1936, OCLC 78090536 .
  • Outline of the East Slav church history . Vienna 1950, OCLC 705998862 .
  • The East Slavic Church in the judicial association of the large Byzantine Church (988–1459) . Würzburg 1955, OCLC 174209418 .
  • La pittura sacra bizantina. Saggi . Rome 1957, OCLC 458442999 .

A list of writings can be found in: Carmelo Capizzi: In memoriam. P. Alberto Maria Ammann SJ (1892–1974). In: Orientalia christiana periodica , Volume 40, 1974, pp. 428-434, here pp. 432-434, ISSN  0030-5375 .

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SURNAME Ammann, Albert Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1974
Place of death Frankfurt am Main