Leopoldinenstiftung

Reports of the Leopoldinen Foundation in the Kaiserthume Oesterreich , issue 8, 1835

The Leopoldinenstiftung for the Austrian Empire to support the American missions (also: Leopoldinen-Missionsverein or Leopoldinen-Stiftung) was a mission association that collected money and donations in kind for the Catholic Church in North America .

history

The Hanoverian missionary Friedrich Reese (1791–1871), Vicar General of Cincinnati , who had lamented the poor state of the Catholic missions in America during a stay in Vienna , gave the impetus to found the association or the foundation . This prompted Emperor Franz I to approve the association that was established in Vienna on May 13, 1829. The purpose of the association was to support and promote missionary affairs in the vast countries of North America . The foundation was named in memory of Archduchess Leopoldine (1797–1826), daughter of Emperor Franz I, who died in America and who had married Dom Pietro I of Portugal in 1817 and became Empress of Brazil . Supreme trustee of the Foundation were Rudolph of Austria , Prince Archbishop of Olomouc , as well as deputy, Prince Archbishop Leopold Maximilian (1766-1831). The seat of the association was on the second floor of the Dominican monastery in the Postgasse , Vienna-Innere Stadt . The weekly club fee was initially one kreuzer convention coin .

The oldest German mission association published the reports of the Leopoldinen Foundation in Kaiserthume Austria from 1831 to 1914 in support of the Catholic missions in America and contributed to the construction of more than 400 churches in North America. With the end of the Danube Monarchy , the association's activities ceased in 1917 and merged with the work of spreading the faith of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

literature

Konrad Hofmann: Leopoldinen Foundation . In: Michael Buchberger (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 1st edition. Volume 6: Kirejewski to Maura. Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1934, OBV .
Franz Loidl : History of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4 .

Individual evidence

^ The Leopoldinen Foundation in Kaiserthume Austria. In: Oesterreichischer Beobachter , No. 194/1829, July 13, 1829, p. 874, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / obo.
↑ Mixed messages. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 299/1829, December 31, 1829, p. 1287, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
^ Gertrude Kummer: The Leopoldinen Foundation (1829-1914), the oldest Austrian mission association . Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, Volume 1, ZDB -ID 846782-1 .Wiener Dom-Verlag, Vienna 1966, OBV .
↑ OBV , ÖNB and ÖNB .

Web links

Commons : Leopoldinen Foundation - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Leopoldinenstiftung in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
History of the Leopoldine Society . In: marquette.edu , PDF (25 kB) , (English), accessed on September 10, 2013.

[obo|13|07|1829|04-1] The Leopoldinen Foundation in Kaiserthume Austria. In: Oesterreichischer Beobachter , No. 194/1829, July 13, 1829, p. 874, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / obo.

[2] Mixed messages. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 299/1829, December 31, 1829, p. 1287, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.

[3] Gertrude Kummer: The Leopoldinen Foundation (1829-1914), the oldest Austrian mission association . Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, Volume 1, ZDB -ID 846782-1 .Wiener Dom-Verlag, Vienna 1966, OBV .

[4] OBV , ÖNB and ÖNB .