Anton Docher

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Anton Docher (* 1852 in Le Crest , France as Antonin Jean Baptiste Docher ; † December 18, 1928 in Albuquerque , USA) is a French Franciscan , missionary and defender of the Indians . He lived in the New Mexico village of Isleta Pueblo for 34 years .

Anton Docher with the Leopold Order and the Colonial Medal

biography

As a seminarian, he was involved in colonial wars in Tunisia and Indochina . He later served as a missionary to the Indians in New Mexico until his death.

During his long stay in Isleta he met numerous celebrities of the time such as the Royal Family of Belgium, Willa Cather , Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and Charles Fletcher Lummis .

Photo gallery

  • King Albert I . and Queen during her visit to Isleta pueblo in 1919 with the state governor and Anton Docher

  • Anton Docher in Isleta, New Mexico

  • Funeral of Padre Antonin Docher in the church of Isleta Pueblo, December 1928

In the literature

He was used as the model for the character of Padre Jesus de Baca in Willa Cather's novel Death Comes to the Archbishop . His adventures are told in a novel by Samuel Gance, Anton ou la trajectoire d'un père , published in January 2013. In 2018 author Philippe Morvan is writing a novel, Ours , which has been published by Calmann-Lévy . He says that he took Anton Docher as a role model. And finally, Mary Ellen Snodgrass quotes him as one of the 231 most important pioneers in the conquest of the American West.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Indian Sentinel. 1913, pp. 41-43
  2. ^ The Guardian, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 12, 1929. pp. 1-4
  3. ↑ Keleher and Chant. The Padre of Isleta . Sunstone Press, 2009, pp.24-26.
  4. ↑ Keleher and Chant. The Padre of Isleta . Sunstone Press, 2009, p.41.
  5. ^ The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier: 1889-1892, edited and annotated by Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley, and Elizabeth M. Lange
  6. ↑ Willa Cather. Death comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf , 1927, p.425. Notes 88-89
  7. ^ New Mexico Magazine, vol. 33, 1955, p. 41
  8. ^ Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers , McFarland & Company, 2015, p. 49
  9. ↑ Un Ours à plume (s) , Stéphanie Buttard, Le Quotidien de la Réunion du 18 November 2018
  10. ^ Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers , ISBN 978-0-7864-9735-5

swell

  • Samuel Gance, Anton ou La trajectoire d'un père: l'histoire romancée du père Anton Docher , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2013 ISBN 978-2-336-29016-4
  • Julia M. Keleher et Elsie Ruth Chant, The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher , Sunstone press Publishing, 2009
  • Mary Ellen Snodgrass , Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers , McFarland & Company, 2015, 47-49 p. ISBN 978-0-7864-9735-5
  • Jean-Baptiste Salpointe , The Indians of Arizona and New Mexico: Nineteenth Century Ethnographic Notes , 2010
  • Baldwin G. Burr, Los Lunas , Arcadia Publishing, 2012, 106 p. ISBN 978-0-7385-9534-4
  • Ray John de Aragón, Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico , The History Press, 2012, 126 p. ISBN 978-1-60949-760-6
personal data
SURNAME Docher, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Docher, Antonin Jean Baptiste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Franciscan, missionary and defender of the Indians
DATE OF BIRTH 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Crest in France
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1928
Place of death Albuquerque , USA