Joseph Lindebner
Joseph Lindebner (born October 29, 1845 in Mainz , † October 4, 1922 in the Holy Rosary Mission, USA) was a mechanical engineer, Jesuit and missionary of the Sioux Indians.
Life
Lindebner came from a Mainz merchant family and studied mechanical engineering in Aachen from 1870. He was a co-founder of the Catholic student union Carolingia Aachen in KV . After graduating, Lindebner worked as an engineer in Liège , Belgium.
In 1877 he entered the Jesuit order in Holland, where the Jesuits had relocated their provincialate due to the ban in Germany ( Kulturkampf ). After studying at religious colleges in Holland and England, he was ordained a priest in 1885 and made his final religious vows in England in 1888 .
He was then sent to the Pine Ridge Reservation Holy Rosary, where he worked as a missionary to the Sioux Indians.
In 1904 Lindebner succeeded in converting the influential shaman Black Elk to Catholicism, who then acted as a catechist . The Indians called Lindebner the "little priest" and erected a memorial to him after his death.
literature
- Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , pp. 87 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ross Alexander Enochs: The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux: Pastoral Theology and Ministry, Pastoral Theology and Ministry, 1886-1945 Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
- ^ John Gneisenau Neihardt : The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. University of Nebraska Press, 1985
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lindebner, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer, Jesuit and missionary of the Sioux Indians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz , Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1922 |
| Place of death | Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge Reservation , South Dakota , United States |