Alexander Baumgartner
Alexander Baumgartner (born June 27, 1841 in St. Gallen ; † September 5, 1910 in Luxembourg ) was a Swiss Jesuit and literary scholar .
Life
Baumgartner was the son of the politician Gallus Jakob Baumgartner . Baumgartner completed the majority of his school days in his hometown, then moved - due to his father's professional career - to Chur , Einsiedeln and Feldkirch .
At the age of 19 Baumgartner entered the Jesuit order . There he attended the Jesuit colleges in Münster , Maria Laach and Ditton Hall . After successfully completing his degree, he was appointed lecturer in Feldkirch in 1867 and six years later in the same position in Stonyhurst , England.
From 1867 Baumgartner was an important contributor to the magazine Voices from Maria Laach . He also wrote for the magazine The Catholic Missions .
From 1899 Baumgartner lived and worked in Luxembourg and died there at the age of 69 on September 5, 1910.
Fonts
- Nordic rides . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau. 1889-1895
- Iceland and the Faroe Islands. 1889.
- Through Scandinavia to St. Petersburg. 1890.
- Travel pictures from Scotland. 1895.
- History of world literature . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1897–1912 and other editions
- The literatures of Western Asia and the Nile countries . 1897.
- The literatures of India and East Asia . 1897.
- Ancient Greek and Latin Literature . 1900.
- The Latin and Greek Literature of the Christian Peoples . 1900.
- French literature . 1905.
- Italian literature . 1905.
- Investigations and judgments on the literatures of different peoples. Collected articles (supplementary volume). 1912.
- Goethe. His life and works . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1911–1913
- Youth, apprenticeship and wandering years . 1911.
- The old master . 1912.
- Supplements and additions . 1913.
literature
- P. Alexander Baumgartner SJ † . In: Luxemburger Wort , No. 250 (1910), September 7, p. 2
- Baumgartner, Alexander . In: Meyers Encyclopedia , 18. Band: year Supplement 1890-1891: . 4th edition. Publisher of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1885/92
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Alexander Baumgartner. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 424-425.
- Cornel Dora: Baumgartner, Alexander. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Vol. 2. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 978-3-7965-1902-4
- Charles George Herbermann : Alexander Baumgartner - Wikisource . In: ders .: (Ed.): Catholic Encyclopedia . The Encyclopedic Press, New York 1913.
- Wilhelm Kratz: Baumgartner, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 666 ( digitized version ).
- PN: P. Alex Baumgartner is coming to Luxembourg . In: Die Warte , vol. 2 (1949), no. 32/46 of September 20, 1949, p. 3 (supplement to the "Luxemburger Wort", no. 263, September 20, 1949)
- Gregor Spedener: Those who lived and wove in Luxembourg. Biographical Notes. Self-published, Grevenmacher 1937, p. 103
Individual evidence
- ↑ So the entire literature, deviating only the entry in the BBKL with the (wrong) date of death October 5th.
Web links
- Publications by and about Alexander Baumgartner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Alexander Baumgartner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alexander Baumgartner in the German Digital Library
- Baumgartner, Alexander . In: The Original Catholic Encyclopedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumgartner, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Jesuit and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1910 |
| Place of death | Luxembourg |