Louise Humann
Marie Madeleine Louise Humann (born September 29, 1766 in Strasbourg ; † September 19, 1836 there ) was an unmarried Catholic citizen of Strasbourg, who played a lasting role in the development of the "Strasbourg School" of Catholic piety, which sought to restore Catholic and apostolic values.
Louise Humann received essential stimuli from her friendship with Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760-1818). Together with Colmar and a wealthy Strasbourg widow, Marie Thérèse Breck, she made a vow on the Sacred Heart Festival (June 23, 1797) in the chapel of Turkenstein in the Vosges , her life of Christian instruction of the youth and the care of the To devote to sick. With the help of a Breck foundation, the three of them bought a house on Rue Sainte Elisabeth in Strasbourg and set up a boarding house there. When Colmar was appointed Bishop of Mainz in 1802 , she followed him to Mainz until his death, where she also founded an institute, the Joséphine Institute after Napoléon's wife Joséphine de Beauharnais and did charitable work, including nursing the sick during the great typhus epidemic from 1813, dedicated.
After returning to Strasbourg in 1819, she founded a circle of religiously and philosophically interested citizens and university members to whom she tried to pass on the spiritual legacy of Colmar, and by whom she was recognized as a kind of spiritual mother .
To this circle belonged Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (1796-1867), since 1816 professor of philosophy at the Collège Royal of Strasbourg, who turned to religion under the influence of Humanns, studied medicine (1826), after a short theological training in 1828 ordained a priest and headed the Petit Séminaire Saint-Louis from 1830. After conflicts with the local clergy, he and other members of the circle moved his sphere of activity to Juilly near Paris in 1840 , where he founded the Institut de Saint-Louis in 1842 .
The circle of Humanns also included the Jewish lawyer Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne , who converted to Catholicism under the influence of Humann and Bautin, was secretly baptized by Louise Humann in 1827 after catechetical preparation, studied medicine and theology, was ordained a priest in 1830 and after stops in Juilly and Paris, founded the Congregation Notre Dame de Sion in 1842 .
To this day, Louise Humann is admired by the successors of Bautin and Ratisbonne. Among other things, the Louise Humann Center , a high school and event center at the College Our Lady of Sion in Box Hill ( Melbourne ), Australia, was named after her .
literature
- Madeleine Louise de Notre-Dame de Sion, Edith Humann de Chazelle: Une militante laïque, Louise Humann: 1766-1836. Éditions Alsatia, Paris 1957
- Paul Fliche: Mademoiselle Louise Humann (1766-1836): Une française d'Alsace. Téqui, Paris 1921
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| SURNAME | Humann, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Humann, Marie Madeleine Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Friend of the founder of the Congregation of Sisters of Notre Dame of Sion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1836 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |