Aloys Lütolf

Alois Lütolf ( born July 23, 1824 in Gettnau, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, † April 8, 1879 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss priest and church historian. He was known primarily as a collector of old Ur - Swiss sagas, which he published in 1865 as a book.

Biography

Alois Lütolf was educated at the Jesuit College in Schwyz. He studied in Lucerne ( where he in 1847 President of the Swiss students association was ) and in Freiburg im Breisgau. On December 26, 1850 he was ordained a priest.

After two years as assistant pastor in Altishofen he became a teacher of history and geography at the college of St. Gallen. 1856 Lütolf went back to Lucerne, where he was Kuratpriester at the Sentikirche. In 1868 he became professor of Church History at the Theological Faculty. At the same time he worked as a choir master at the monastery of St. Leger and Mauritius in the yard. In 1879 he died of a kidney ailment.

Tell collection

Lütolf belonged to the " Historical Society of the V old places " to. Here he received in 1859 by the historian Johann Baptist Brosi the suggestion to collect the old Swiss sagas. With the help of club members he interviewed more than five years in various places of his native people and amassed stories, fairy tales, superstitions and similar traditions from the heart of Switzerland. Even village priest helped him in this endeavor, so Kaplan Laurenz Feger from Gurtnellen. After a first delivery in 1862 was published, this extensive collection was published in 1865 under the title "Say, customs and legends of the five varieties of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, train ".

Awards

Works

  • The Swiss Guard in Rome and their meanings and effects in the 16th century: in addition epistolary messages on the history of that age of the officers of the guards; from the sources. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1859
  • Life and confessions of Joseph Lawrence Schiffmann, pastor, decane and canon of the diocese of Basel: a contribution to the characteristic JM Sailer and his school in Switzerland. Lucern: Räber 1860
  • Say, customs and legends of the five varieties of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Lucerne train 1862-1865 ( digitized; Reprints: G. Olms Verlag, 1976 ISBN 3-487-059738 )
  • Joseph Eutych Kopp as a professor, poet, statesman and historian. Lucern: Franz Joseph Schiffmann 1868
  • Switzerland's heralds of the faith before St. Gallus. Lucerne: Räber 1871 ( digitized )
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