August Leidl

August Leidl (born January 19, 1933 in Burghausen ; † July 23, 1994 in Passau ) was a Passau church historian and university professor. From 1969 to 1994 he was also head of the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research .

Leidl was born on January 19, 1933 in Burghausen , where he also graduated from high school in 1952. In the same year he enrolled at the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau and entered the St. Stephan seminary ; in June 1958 he was ordained a priest . Two years later he began studying at the University of Munich , did his doctorate in 1964 with a dissertation and only four years later submitted his habilitation thesis . In October 1968 he took over the representation of the chair for church history at the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau and was appointed professor the following year. Leidl was Vice President of the university from 1976 to 1978, which was incorporated into the University of Passau , which had just been founded in 1978 . From 1978 to 1981 he was the first dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty.

In 1969, Leidl - initially together with Benno Hubensteiner - became director of the Institute for East Bavarian Local History Research , and in 1973 he was confirmed as its sole director by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. Also in 1969 he was given the management of the Episcopal Archives, whose relocation from the residence to Luragogasse and thus its modernization he pushed ahead and finally enforced. As early as 1979 he received the cultural letter of honor of the city of Passau as well as the appointment to the papal honorary prelate . In 1980, with the completion of the resettlement of the Episcopal Archives, Leidl was now head of one of the most modern church archives in the Federal Republic of that time (also the most modern church archive in Bavaria). As a reward for this service, he was even elected German chairman of the archivists of the Catholic Church in 1982. In 1992, however, due to his advanced illness, he had to retire from the post of Passau diocesan archive director. August Leidl died on July 23, 1994 at the age of 61 and is buried in Schalding on the right of the Danube .

Web links

• Literature by and about August Leidl in the catalog of the German National Library