Frederick George Holweck

Frederick George Holweck (Friedrich Georg) (1856–1927) was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian.

Life

He was a priest in St. Louis, from 1889 to 1892 as assistant pastor at the St. Francis de Sales Church,[1][2] and from 1892 to 1903 as pastor at the St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church, in a temporary structure, for a mostly German congregation.[3][4][5] He returned to the St. Francis de Sales Church in 1903 as pastor, in a time of reconstruction after the damage by the tornado of 1896.[6][7] The church was completed in 1908.[8]

His 1892 Freiburg dissertation collected 940 Marian feasts and customs.[9] He supported the St Louis Catholic Historical Society, as an original researcher into the local history of the diocese and in other fields.[10] His manuscripts are held by Saint Louis University.[11]

At the end of his life he was honored with the title Monsignor,[12] and appointment as domestic prelate to the Pope.

Works

Notes

  1. ^ "Catholic Priests of St. Louis, Mo., H-I, from 1870–1900 City Directories". Slcl.org. http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/catholic/russ/rus-priests-h-i.htm. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES: 200 Years of St. Louis Places of Worship – 1770 – 1970". Slpl.lib.mo.us. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/s-stlworship.htm. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ "History". Thehillstl.Com. http://www.thehillstl.com/history_1890.html. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  6. ^ "Early (pre 1900) St. Louis Places of Worship". Genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com. http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/earlychurches.htm. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  7. ^ "About § St. Francis de Sales Oratory, St. Louis Latin Mass". Institute-christ-king.org. 26 November 1908. http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/stlouis-about/. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  8. ^ [3]
  9. ^ John Francis Baldovin, Maxwell E. Johnson, Between Memory and Hope (2000), p. 400.
  10. ^ John Paul Cadden, The Historiography of the American Catholic Church, 1785–1943 (1978), p. 110.
  11. ^ [4]
  12. ^ "Dogtown History of Cheltenham and St. James Parish by P.J. O'Connor". Webster.edu. http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/pj-book/pj-28-53.html. Retrieved 19 October 2011.