Leonhard Lemmens

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Leonhard Lemmens OFM (born November 19, 1864 as Vincenz Lemmens in Bocket near Heinsberg ; † February 10, 1929 in Rome ) was a Franciscan of the Saxon Franciscan Province and church historian who published numerous writings on the history of the Franciscan Order.

Leonhard Lemmens worked from 1901 to 1903 as a lecturer for ecclesiastical history at the Franciscan Order University Antonianum in Rome, then until 1906 he was Prefect at the Order of St. Bonaventure in Quaracchi near Florence. After several study stays in the Holy Land , he was now (1909) an honorary doctor of theology, and from 1921 he worked as an archivist for the order, published numerous works on the history of the Franciscan mission and the German Franciscan provinces and edited important sources on the history of the order; In 1904 he was involved in the publication of the Opuscula sancti patris Francisci Assisiensis by the Fathers of the College of St. Bonaventure. From 1924 to 1929 he taught mission history at the Antonianum in Rome.

Works (selection)

  • Lower Saxony Franciscan Monasteries in the Middle Ages. Contribution to church and cultural history , Hildesheim 1896
  • The historical development of the Benedictine nuns ad sanctam Mariam zu Fulda , Fulda 1898
  • From the time when the Thuringian Franciscan Province , Frauenberg-Fulda, 1899
  • Father Augustin von Alfeld († around 1532): a Franciscan from the first years of the religious schism in Germany , Freiburg i. Br. 1899
  • Documenta antiqua Franciscana , 3 volumes, Quaracchi 1901–1902, as editor
  • Vitae tres S. patris Francisci saeculo XIII compositae éditae , Quaracchi 1901, as editor
  • Extractiones de legenda antiqua (beati Francisci) , Quaracchi 1902
  • From unprinted Franciscan letters of the XVI. Century , Münster 1911
  • Document book of the old Saxon Franciscan provinces.
  1. Volume: The Observant Custody of Livonia and Prussia , Düsseldorf 1912
  2. Volume: Die Kustodie Preussen , Düsseldorf, 1912 digitized kbpc (restricted access)
  • The Gentile Mission of the Late Middle Ages , Münster i. W. 1919
  • The Franciscan Missions of the Present , Düsseldorf 1924
  • The Franciscans in the Holy Land , Münster 1925, digitized Archive.org
  • History of the Franziskanermisdionen , Münster i. W. 1929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Fleckenstein: Lemmens, Leonhard . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 6 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, Sp. 809 f .
personal data
SURNAME Lemmens, Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemmens OFM, Leonhard (full name); Lemmens, Vincenz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscans, church historians
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocket at Heinsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1929
Place of death Rome