Alois Lütolf

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Alois Lütolf (born July 23, 1824 in Gettnau , Canton Lucerne , Switzerland ; † April 8, 1879 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss priest and church historian . He was best known as a collector of old, Ur-Swiss sagas , which he published as a book in 1865.

biography

Alois Lütolf was educated at the Jesuit College in Schwyz . He studied in Lucerne (where he became the central president of the Swiss Student Union in 1847 ) and in Freiburg im Breisgau . He was ordained a priest on December 26, 1850.

After two years as a parish assistant in Altishofen , he became a teacher of history and geography at the St. Gallen Cantonal School . In 1856 Lütolf went back to Lucerne, where he was curate priest at the Sentikirche. In 1868 he became a professor of church history at the theological faculty. At the same time he worked as a canon at the monastery of St. Leodegar and Mauritius in the courtyard. In 1879 he succumbed to kidney disease.

Collection of legends

Lütolf belonged to the "Historical Association of the Old Places". It was here in 1859 that the historian Johann Baptist Brosi suggested that he collect the old Swiss sagas. With the help of association members, he interviewed people in various places in his homeland for five years and brought together stories, fairy tales , superstitions and similar traditions from original Switzerland . Village chaplains also helped him with this project, says chaplain Laurenz Feger from Gurtnellen . After a first delivery had appeared in 1862, this extensive collection was published in 1865 under the title “Sages, Customs and Legends from the Five Locations Lucerne , Uri , Schwyz , Unterwalden , Zug ”.

Awards

Works

  • The Swiss Guard in Rome and its significance and effects in the 16th century: along with letters from the officers of the Guard on the history of that age; from the sources. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1859
  • Life and confessions of Joseph Laurenz Schiffmann, pastor, dean and canon of the diocese of Basel: a contribution to the characteristics of JM Sailer and his school in Switzerland. Lucern: Räber 1860
  • Legends, customs and legends from the five towns of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug Lucerne 1862–1865 ( digitized ; reprint: Verlag G. Olms, 1976 ISBN 3-487-059738 )
  • Joseph Eutych Kopp as a professor, poet, statesman and historian. Lucern: Franz Joseph Schiffmann 1868
  • The messengers of faith of Switzerland in front of St. Gallus . Lucerne: Räber 1871 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Claudio Hüppi: Alois Lütolf: Leben u. Work, a contribution to Swiss historiography in the 19th century. Winterthur: Keller 1961
  • Rudolf Schenda / Hans ten Doornkaat (eds.): Storytellers and saga collectors of Switzerland , Paul Haupt Publishing House, Bern, 1988; ISBN 3-258-038783
  • Claudio Hüppi:  Lütolf, Alois. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 484 ( digitized version ).
  • Meyer von Knonau:  Lütolf, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 700-704.
  • Eduard Hengartner (Ed.): "How valuable the smallest sagas and customs can often be." (Ignaz V. Zingerle). The correspondence between the two legend researchers Alois Lütolf (Central Switzerland) and Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle (Tyrol), 1862–1866 . In: Der Geschichtsfreund , Volume 138 (Stans 1985) pp. 12-54 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Hengartner: Lütolf, Alois . In: Swiss Lexicon 91 . Volume 4, Mengis + Ziehr, Luzern 1991, p. 376.
  • Eduard Hengartner: Spanish stories in legends of central Switzerland. For the 175th birthday of Alois Lütolf on July 23 [1999] . In: Der Bund , No. 164 of July 17, 1999 ( Der kleine Bund , Kulturbeilage, p. 4).
  • About the sermon fairy tale “The Pimpernussbaum auf Bösegg” (No. 334, pp. 367–369) see Eduard Hengartner and Enedina Rodríguez: The Chicken Miracle of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A Spanish legend . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (supplement literature and art), No. 74 from 30./31. March 1991, p. 70.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Hengartner: Laurenz Feger (1816–1886) . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein , Volume 85, Vaduz 1985, pp. 215–228. (Digitized version)
  2. ↑ 334. The Pimpernussbaum on Bösegg ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Lütolf, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss church historian and saga collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Gettnau
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1879
Place of death Lucerne