Anton Anderledy

Anton Maria Anderledy ( born June 3, 1819 Weiler Berisal above Brig, Valais Canton, † January 18, 1892 in Fiesole, Tuscany) was 23 Superior General of the Jesuits.

Life

Anton Maria Anderledy was born the son of a postmaster in German-speaking Switzerland. After his school - high school time in Brig, he joined in 1839 in the Society of Jesus. After the novitiate he studied ancient languages ​​, 1842-44, he taught at the college in Fribourg. 1844-46 he studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University, Rome, 1846-47 Fribourg ( Switzerland ). After the defeat of the conservative cantons in 1847 Sonderbundskrieg and the liquidation of the Federal and the Jesuits were expelled. He first found refuge in Chambéry, France traveled Anderledy first to Piedmont. In 1848, too, the Jesuit Order was banned, he joined a larger group of Jesuits to enter the United States. There he was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri / USA there to complete his theological studies. On September 29, 1848 he was ordained by Archbishop Francis Kenrick priest to officials in Green Bay, Wisconsin / USA.

In 1851 he was recalled to Germany and spent two years Jesuit missions in Bavaria, in the Warmia and on the Lower Rhine, until he rector of the Theological Study Institute of the Society of Jesus in Cologne in 1853. His eternal vows he took in Cologne on 26 March 1855. 1856 appointed one Anderledy as rector of the Theological College of Paderborn. In 1859, he became the Provincial of the Order. From 1865 he was professor of moral theology at the College he founded the Abbey of Khajuraho which was acquired by the Order. Four years later he became rector.

In 1870 he was appointed assistant to the Jesuit General Peter Johann Beckx, responsible for German-speaking provinces to Rome. After this important office he held 13 years and had proved itself both through strength of character and high intellectual gifts, he was chosen by the 1883 meeting in Florence General Congregation of the Jesuits Vicar General with right of succession. This, however, only after lengthy negotiations, and not without opposition from the Roman Order members. As 1884 Peter Beckx resigned because of old age as General of the Society of Jesus, he took over on March 4, in 1887, his successor, a position he held for 5 years.

Under Anderledy the new Jesuit missions in Moldova, Pune (India) and El Minya (Egypt) emerged. The number of Jesuits increased from 11,481 to 13,275.