Ludwig Abt

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Ludwig Abt (born November 29, 1851 in Seitzenhahn , † March 19, 1921 in Hofheim am Taunus ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .

family

Ludwig Abt was the son of Johannes Josef Abt, owner of a hammer mill , and Elisabeth Wagner. His older brother Anton Abt was also a priest. His sister Caroline Jakobine Abt was the mother of drilling pioneer Anton Raky .

Life

After attending school in Montabaur and Hadamar , Ludwig Abt studied at the Mainz seminary and at the University of Würzburg .

Presumably due to the Kulturkampf in Germany, he went to France, where he was ordained a priest in Grenoble on March 16, 1878 . Until 1885 he was a teacher there at the Episcopal Gymnasium.

He returned to the diocese of Limburg . He was a private tutor, then an auxiliary pastor in Nied and a chaplain in Frankfurt . Ludwig Abt was pastor in Dietkirchen in 1889, and in Oberreifenberg from 1889 and 1890 . From 1891 he worked as a teacher at the secondary school in Limburg an der Lahn . In 1902 he became director of the Teutonic Order Church in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen .

From 1909 to 1919 he was the parish priest in Frankfurt and thus worked at the Frankfurt Cathedral . He received the honorary title of Honorary Canon of Limburg and in 1919 the honorary title of Papal House Prelate .

Ludwig Abt was a member of the editorial team of the scoreboard for the Catholic clergy .

Works

  • Limburg Cathedral: historical-architectural sketch , Verlag Gebr. Goerlach, Limburg an der Lahn 1895
  • Seelenberg 1696-1896 . Festschrift to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the community, self-published, Limburg 1896
  • The Christian Family (1897)
  • Guide through Limburg an der Lahn , Limburger Vereindruckerei, Limburg 1900.
  • with Johann Diefenbach: Festschrift to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Teutonic Order Church and the 200th anniversary of the German House in Frankfurt aM-Sachsenhausen , self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1909

literature

  • Rainer Merkens, Hubert Rütten, Christoph Stolzenberger: The Myth of Raky. From Erkelenz into the world. (Documentation for the exhibition from August 31st to October 28th, 2012 in Haus Spiess in Erkelenz) Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV, Erkelenz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815182-3-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Abbot, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Seitzenhahn
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1921
Place of death Hofheim am Taunus