Alphons Bellesheim

Alfons Home Belle ( born December 16, 1839 in Monschau, † February 5, 1912 in Aachen ) was a German church historian and provost at the Aachen Cathedral.

Life and work

The son of a pharmacist Wilhelm Belle Home (1801-1867) and Margaret, widow Gierligs, born Dumesnil (1797-1866), first attended the Latin school in Monschau, but then switched to a Duerener High School, where he graduated from high school in 1858 took off. He then studied Catholic theology at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen, and attended the seminary Cologne. After his ordination in 1862, Belle was taken home to Santa Maria dell'Anima as a chaplain, where he worked until 1865 and a doctorate in the last months of his local service in Rome.

After his subsequent return to Germany Belle home got a job as Vicar at the Cologne Cathedral and at the same time as secretary of Generalvikariats. Due to the culture war in the 1870s had to Belle home, who had always been faithful to his arrested for political reasons in 1874, Archbishop Paul Melchers Ludolf Cardinal, give up his positions in Cologne. He then devoted himself for the next more than 25 years strengthened scientific and theological research and wrote much of his publications, including 10 books, 4 pamphlets, essays and 77 148 encyclopedias entries. One focus of this made ​​his interest in the church history of the British Isles, where he again stayed for appropriate search from 1881 to 1884 for three years in Rome in the Vatican Archives.

Finally Belle home was appointed in 1902 to the provost at the Aachen Cathedral, where he focused strove for its restoration as well as to the preparation and organization of the Aachen pilgrimages in 1902 and 1909. He held that post until his death, and has since been honored for his life's work with the honorary title of an apostolic prothonotary.

Belle home had caused by Testament, was that his extensive private library, consisting of about 4,000 volumes, mostly church history, including English-and French-language works, as well as scholastic theology, exegesis, hymnology and other theological literature after his death, the public city library Aachen to transfer.

Alfons Belle home found his final resting place in the tomb of his parents at the Aachen East Cemetery.

Writings (selection )

  • Giuseppe Cardinal Mezzofanti: A life picture of the church history of the 18th and 19th centuries, Woerl, Würzburg 1879
  • The elementary schools in Catholic England, Foesser, Frankfurt 1882
  • History of the Catholic Church in Scotland from the introduction of Christianity to the present time, 2 vols, Kirchheim, Mainz 1883
  • William Cardinal Allen and the English seminars on the mainland, Mainz 1885
  • History of the Catholic Church in Ireland from the introduction of Christianity to the present time, three volumes, Kirchheim, Mainz 1890/91
  • Henry Edward Manning; Cardinal - Archbishop of Westminster (1808-1892), Kirchheim, Mainz 1892
  • Charles Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Carthage and Primate of Africa (1825-1892), In: The Catholic Magazine for Catholic science and church life, Vol 27, Issue 3, pp. 248-266, and No. 4, pp. 356 -377, Kirchheim, Mainz 1897
  • Essays in The Catholic Magazine for Catholic science and church life
  • Essays in the " Historical- political Browse for Catholic Germany "
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