Joseph Selinger Papers

Fonds

Identifier: SEL

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Chiefly correspondence, including letters written by Selinger during his years as a student at the North American College in Rome and as a teacher at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee to Rev. Anton Pauk of St. Louis; letters from H.J. Heuser, O.J.S. Hoog, and Bede Maler, OSB, some of them concerning Selinger's views on agnosticism; letters from rectors of the Catholic University of America John J. Keane, D.J. O'Connell, and Thomas J. Conaty; and letters from M. Cardinal Faulhaber, A. Cardinal Bertram, and many other German-speaking European bishops concerning Mass stipends and contributions towards the rebuilding of Europe after World War I collected from German Americans by the Catholic Central Verein and sent by Selinger to Europe.

Dates

Creation: 1878-1936.

Creator

Selinger, Joseph, 1859-1938 (Person)

Language of Materials

In German , English , Latin , Italian and French .

Background

Priest, author, professor of theology at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, and later pastor of St. Peter's Church in Jefferson City, Missouri, and chaplain of St. Mary's Hospital there.