Leo Maasburg
Leo Maasburg (born March 28, 1948 in Graz ) is an Austrian clergyman and was National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria from 2005 to 2016 . He was also Mother Teresa's companion for many years .
Life
Leo Maasburg comes from the old Austrian aristocratic family Maasburg and is the son of the member of the Austrian Nazi resistance group O5 , Nikolaus Freiherr von Maasburg (1913-1965), and the Christiane Countess Ceschi a Santa Croce (1914-1984). Both parents came from what is now Slovenia and after the end of the war in 1945 they were expropriated and expelled by communist Yugoslavia without compensation.
On Stiftsgymnasium Melk was Maasburg protégé of his physics professor Reginald Zupancic . He studied law and political science , theology and missiology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Oxford and at the Pontifical Lateran University . After his ordination in 1982 in Fátima , he worked for the Slovak bishop Paul Hnilica in Rome , where he met Mother Teresa, whom he accompanied on numerous trips, including to India , Cuba and the Soviet Union , and whose beatification he helped prepare. He has been a member of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 2003 and their National Director since 2005. His book about Mother Teresa (Original German: Mother Teresa. The wonderful stories) appeared u. a. in English, French, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Macedonian, Albanian, Slovak, Russian, Chinese, Slovenian, Croatian, Estonian and Czech.
In February 2016 it was announced that Karl Wallner would succeed Leo Maasburg as missio national director from September 1, 2016 .
Publications
- Mother Teresa; the wonderful stories , Verlag Pattloch , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-629-02248-6
- Mother Teresa; The wonderful stories , Verlag Knaur Taschenbuch, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-78831-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ordensgemeinschaften.at/publikationen/video/42-publikationen/texte/ordensnachrichten/449-ordensnachrichten-2005-5-zum-geleit
- ↑ Mother Teresa: "She has not preached" , press , August 25, 2010. Accessed 28 August 2010
- ^ Orf.at - Father Karl Wallner new "Missio" national director . Article dated February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016.
Web links
- Curriculum vitae of Leo Maasburg (PDF; 333 kB) on missio.at
- Interview with Leo Maasburg
- Leo Maasburg: 'True peace is growing in the truth of Christ' on kath.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maasburg, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |