Franz Ehrle

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Francis Cardinal Ehrle
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Franz Cardinal Ehrle SJ (born October 17, 1845 in Isny ; † March 31, 1934 in Rome ) was a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Ehrle was the son of the medical officer Dr. Franz Eduard Ehrle and his wife Bertha Ludovica, b. v. Happy. At the age of 16, Franz Ehrle entered the Society of Jesus in 1861 and then studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Feldkirch , Münster , Maria Laach and at the Ditton Hall Order College near Liverpool , where he received the sacrament of ordination in 1876 . Then he continued his theological studies. Ehrle served in the pastoral ministry in Liverpool from 1877 to 1878. In 1878 he worked for the Catholic magazine Voices from Maria Laach , the editorial staff of which found shelter in Tervueren Castle near Brussels during the Kulturkampf . Until 1880 he worked there both as a scientist and as a pastor in the city of Brussels . In 1880 he went to Rome to do research. He was an employee of the Vatican Library and became its pro-prefect in January 1895 and rose to the position of prefect in June of the same year. In 1914 he was released from this office.

From 1914 to 1919 Ehrle was editor-in-chief and publisher of Voices from Maria Laach . He carried out this task first from Rome and Feldkirch in Vorarlberg , until the editorial office moved to Munich in 1916 . From 1919 to 1922 he was a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. During this time Ehrle was also the main organizer of the papal research library Leonina .

On December 11, 1922, Pope Pius XI raised him . the cardinal deacon with the title Diakonie San Cesareo in Palatio . On April 17, 1929 he was appointed cardinal librarian of the Roman Church ( SRE bibliothecarius et archivarius ).

Franz Ehrle died on March 31, 1934 in Rome and was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • Bibliotheca theologiae et philosophiae scholasticae selecta. 5 volumes. Paris 1885-1894.
  • Historia Bibliothecae Romanorum Pontificum. Vol. I. Rome 1890.
  • The sentence commentary of Peters by Candia. 1925.
  • with Hermann Egger : The Vatican Palace in its development up to the middle of the 15th century. Volume 1. Città del Vaticano 1935.
  • with Heinrich Denifle (Hrsg.): Archive for literary and church history of the Middle Ages. 7 volumes. 1885-1900.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Ehrle  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Sohn : Report on the Franz Ehrle Conference on February 19 and 20, 2015 in Rome , Roman Institute of the Görres Society , accessed on March 27, 2015.
predecessor Office successor
Francis Aidan Gasquet Cardinal
Librarian 1929–1934 		Giovanni Mercati
personal data
SURNAME Ehrle, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrle, Francis; Ehrle, Franciscus; Ehrle, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardinal, prefect of the Vatican Library
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Isny
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1934
Place of death Rome