Franz Loidl

Franz Loidl (born March 16, 1905 in Ebensee , Upper Austria ; † July 26, 1987 in Payerbach , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian Catholic priest , church, local and cultural historian and author .

Life

Franz Loidl was ordained a priest in 1931. After completing his habilitation in 1941, Loidl was chaplain of the Vienna parish Sankt Augustin as well as site and hospital pastor of military district XVII until 1945 .

In this function he accompanied many sentenced to death to execution and gave them their last consolation.

At the end of the war, Franz Loidl was in Ebensee and on May 8, 1945, looking for imprisoned priests, he entered the liberated Ebensee concentration camp for the first time . He was there almost every day for the next two weeks. We owe him impressive pictures of the camp after the liberation. He wrote his habilitation in 1946 at the University of Vienna on church history and patrology . After becoming an associate professor at the theological faculty in Vienna in 1950, he took over the chair for church history and patrology at the University of Vienna from 1953 to 1975. From 1958 to 1965 he was director of the Vienna diocesan archive. He also held the dignity of a papal house prelate . He has been a board member of the DÖW since it was founded . This engagement was primarily shaped by the impressions in the liberated Ebensee concentration camp.

In 1980 he received the Karl von Vogelsang State Prize for the History of Social Sciences .

Works

• History of the Archdiocese of Vienna (1983)
• Baroque people. Abraham a Santa Clara on the religious and moral life in Austria in the period from 1670–1710 (1938)

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Loidl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Loidl on the website of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance