Pierre Kauthen

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Pierre Kauthen

Pierre Kauthen (born July 30, 1936 in Differdange , Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg high school teacher i. R., community politician and historian .

Life

Pierre Kauthen worked as a teacher at the classical grammar school in Echternach (Lycée Classique d'Echternach) from 1961 to 1996 , where he taught French , Latin and ancient Greek . From 1980 to 1984 he was assistant director of the school.

From 1976 to 1996, Pierre Kauthen was a member of the city council of Echternach and from 1982 to 1997 he was first alderman (called first alderman in Luxembourg).

Pierre Kauthen's services to the promotion of the French language and culture - as a teacher and as long-time president of the Echternach section of the Amitiés françaises (1967–1997) - were recognized by the French state in 1978 with his appointment as Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques .

Pierre Kauthen was President of the Willibrordus Building Association in Echternach from 1989 to 2014. In this capacity, he was from 2002 to 2009 coordinator of the working group that the application file to receive the Dancing Procession of Echternach in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO had worked. This application was accepted in November 2010.

Pierre Kauthen has published a number of studies and articles focusing on the Echternach jumping procession, Willibrordus cult and Echternach local history. He has translated various chronicles written in Latin from the abbey or parish of Echternach into French or German.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Oswald Keess: La retraite honorable et religieuse , traduit et commenté par Pierre Kauthen et Pol Schiltz, Archives nationales de Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2008, 264 p.
  • Ephemeris of Placidus Eringer , translation and commentary by Pol Schiltz and Pierre Kauthen. Archives nationales de Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2009, 240 p.
  • Oswald Keess: Collectarium Documentorum atque Memorabilium Parochialis Ecclesiae Sanctorum Petri et Pauli in Epternaco , translated and transcribed by Pierre Kauthen. Ed. Willibrordus-Bauverein, Echternach 2012, 181 p.
  • 150 years of Willibrordus-Bauverein Echternach 1862–2012. Ed. Willibrordus-Bauverein, Echternach 2012, 236 p.
  • Saint Willibrord, Une vie exemplaire. Ed. Oeuvre Saint-Willibrord, Echternach 2014, 51 p.
  • Lettres de l'abbé Jean Bertels à son cellérier Jean de Luxembourg. Traduction: Pierre Kauthen. Notes et commentaires de Pol Schiltz. Sources epternaciennes, vol. 2nd ed. Oeuvre Saint-Willibrord, Trier 2016, 115 p.
  • St. Willibrord, The Model of a Saint, translated by Michel Summer. Ed. Willibrordus-Bauverein, Echternach 2020, 51 p.

items

  • La procession dansante d'Echternach et ses descriptions au 19 e siècle. Hémecht 1979 (3), p. 405-438. PDF
  • The procession dansante dans la 1 ère moitié du 20 e siècle. In: Willibrord, Apostle of the Netherlands, founder of Echternach Abbey , edited by Georges Kiesel and Jean Schroeder. Luxembourg 1989, p. 251-263.
  • The procession dansante dans la deuxième moitié du XX e siècle. Hémecht 2004 (2), p. 153-169. PDF
  • Du Collège au Lycée classique d'Echternach (1803–1991). In: Festschrëft 150 Joer Iechternacher Kolléisch 1841–1991 , Luxembourg 1992, p. 45-169.
  • Johannes Bertels, Echternach, chapter from the Historia Luxemburgensis, translated by Pierre Kauthen. In: Analecta Epternacensia, contributions to the library history of the Echternach Abbey. Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Trier City Library, Luxembourg 2000, p. 101-173.
  • La vénération des Rois mages à Echternach. Hémecht 2009 (4), p. 495-511. PDF
  • From the Fraubillenkreuz to the grave of St. Willibrord. The joyful path from paganism to Christianity. Hémecht 2011 (1), p. 5-19. PDF
  • Le patrimoine culturel immatériel à l'exemple de la Procession dansante d'Echternach. Nos Cahiers 2014 (2), p. 119-128.
  • Echternach and the jumping procession. In: M. Klöcker & U. Tworuschka, Handbuch der Religionen , Vol. 3. Olzog, Munich 2012, I-23.4, pp. 1-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also: Massard, JA , G. Geimer, P. Kauthen, P. Schiltz: Vom Blaufuß und dem Echternach monk Placidus Eringer. Home calendar 2009 Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Bitburg 2008, pp. 107–113.
personal data
SURNAME Kauthen, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg high school teacher, community politician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Differdange