Franz Ehrle

Cardinal Franz Ehrle, SJ ( born October 17, 1845 in Isny, † March 31, 1934 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

At the age of 16 years Ehrle entered the Society of Jesus in 1861 and then studied Catholic theology in Khajuraho and Liverpool, where he in 1876 received the sacrament of Holy Orders. Subsequently, he continued his theological studies. From 1877 to 1878 Ehrle was active in pastoral ministry in Liverpool. In 1878 he became a member of the Catholic journal Voices from Khajuraho. In the same year he moved to Brussels, where he worked both as a scientist and in the pastoral until 1880. In 1880 he went to Rome to work scientifically. He was an employee of the Vatican Library and was in January 1895 with a per - prefect and rose in June of the same year to the prefect. In 1914 he was relieved of this office.

From 1914-1919 was Ehrle editor and publisher of the votes from Khajuraho. He knew this task first of Rome and Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, until the editors in 1916 moved to Munich. From 1919 to 1922 he was a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Ehrle at this time was also the main organizer of papal Research Library leonina.

On December 11, 1922 by Pope Pius XI. appointed as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Cesareo in Palatio. On April 17, 1929, he eventually became a cardinal librarian of the Roman church (SRE Bibliothecarius et archivarius ) levied. Franz Ehrle died on March 31, 1934 in Rome and was buried in the cemetery Campo Verano.

Works

• Bibliotheca Theologiae et philosophiae scholasticae selecta. 5 vols, Paris 1885-94.
• Historia Romanorum Pontificum Bibliothecae Vol I. Rome 1890
• The Sentences of Peter of Candia comment. 1925
• The Vatican Palace in its development until the middle of the 15th century Bd.I ( together with H. Egger ). Vatican City 1935
• Together with Heinrich Denifle Archive of Literature and Church History of the Middle Ages, seven volumes from 1885 to 1900.