Victor Conzemius

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Victor Conzemius (born September 3, 1929 in Echternach ; † June 24, 2017 in Lucerne ) was a Luxembourgish Roman Catholic church historian .

Life

Conzemius was born the son of a hotelier. He studied philosophy and theology at the Luxembourg seminary and history, philosophy and theology at the University of Freiburg . There he was in 1954 with a thesis on the Archbishop of Trier Jakob III. PhD from Eltz . In 1955 he was ordained a priest . Conzemius then worked as a pastor before moving to Dublin from 1965 to 1968 as a lecturer in modern history . From 1970 to 1980 he taught church history at the University of Lucerne . He then worked as a freelance scientist and publicist.

Fonts (selection)

sorted by year of publication

  • Jacob III from Eltz. Archbishop of Trier 1567–1581. An elector in the age of the Counter Reformation. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1956.
  • Catholicism without Rome. Benziger, Zurich 1969.
  • Lord Acton or the Free Word in the Church . In: Otto Bardong (ed.): Herrnsheim 771–1971. Festival book for the 1200th anniversary . Worms 1971.
  • Philipp Anton von Segesser 1817–1888. Benziger, Zurich 1977.
  • (as ed.) Swiss Catholicism 1933–1945. A confessional culture between isolation and solidarity. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2001.

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