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Catholics, German

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Catholic Central Verein of America Records

 Fonds
Identifier: CCV
Scope and Content Correspondence files from the Central Bureau, most of them involving Frederick P. Kenkel and dating from his term as director (1908-1952); concerning Central Verein business and Catholic topics of the day, including a large file on anti-Catholic speakers claiming to be ex-priests and nuns. Correspondents include John J. Cochran, Brother Joseph Dutton, Mary Filser Lohr, Joseph Matt, John Rothensteiner, and George Shuster, and many prominent German Catholics. Microfilm contains...
Dates: 1826-1972 (bulk 1908-1952).

George Bornemann Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BNM
Scope and Content

Correspondence, notes, church documents, and printed material; concerning Bornemann's work as a leader of the German American Catholic Congresses and his interest in organizations of German American Catholics such as the Staatsverband Societies of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Catholic Central Verein, and the Amerikanish Deutschen Priester Vereins. Correspondents include J.N. Enzlberger, William Faerber, Joseph Schroeder, and bishops Leo Haid, OSB, and P.J. Hurth, CSC.

Dates: 1889-1925.

Joseph Selinger Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: SEL
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....
Dates: 1878-1936.

Ludwigs-Verein Records

 Fonds
Identifier: LUD
Scope and Content Five reels of letters from the United States to the Ludwig Mission Society and two reels of the society's magazine, Annalen der Glaubensverbreitung, volumes one through twenty-one (1848-1868), in which many of the letters were published. Correspondents include Rev. Franz Xaver Weninger, bishops Frederick Baraga, Egidius Jünger, Joseph Melcher, Ignatius Mrak, Michael O'Connor, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, John Timon, CM, Richard V. Whelan, and others. Most...
Dates: 1831-1875.