Ludwig Pastor, ennobled as Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes. He was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1908 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.

Early life

Born in Aachen to a Lutheran father and a Catholic mother, Pastor was converted to Catholicism at ten, after his father's death. He attended a Frankfurt gymnasium, where his teacher was Johannes Janssen who introduced him to historical studies.

Pastor studied in 1875 at Leuven, in 1875/76 at Bonn, where he became a member of the student corporation Arminia, and in 1877/78 at Vienna. Pastor taught at the University of Innsbruck, first as a lecturer (1881–87), then as professor of modern history (1887). His dissertation was titled "Die kirchlichen Reunionsbestrebungen während der Regierung Karls V" (The Church's Attempts at Reunion During the Reign of Charles V). Pastor edited his mentor Janssen's eight-volume Geschichte des deutschen Volkes (History of the German People) and published it from 1893 to 1926.

Works

All forty volumes of The History of the Popes are available from the Internet Archive. Volumes I to VI are translated and edited by Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, volumes VII to XXIV by Ralph Francis Kerr, volumes XXV to XXXIV by Ernest Graf and volumes XXXV to LX by E. F. Peeler. The publishers vary and include K. Paul, Trench Trübner, & Co., Routledge, and K. Paul.

  • Vol. I, 1305–1447, Popes at Avignon, The Schism, Councils of Pisa and Constance, Martin V and Eugenius IV
  • Vol. II, 1447–1458, Nicholas V and Calixtus III
  • Vol. III, 1447–1464, Pius II
  • Vol. IV, 1464–1483, Paul II and Sixtus IV
  • Vol. V, 1484–1497, Innocent VIII and Alexander VI
  • Vol. VI, 1492–1511, Alexander VI, Pius III and Julius II
  • Vol. VII, 1513–1521, Leo X (Book I)
  • Vol. VIII, 1513–1521, Leo X (Book II)
  • Vol. IX, 1522–1527, Adrian VI and Clement VII
  • Vol. X, 1523–1534, Clement VII
  • Vol. XI, 1534–1540, Paul III
  • Vol. XII, 1534–1549, Paul III
  • Vol. XIII, 1550–1555, Julius III
  • Vol. XIV, 1555–1559, Marcellus II and Paul IV
  • Vol. XV, 1559–1565, Pius IV
  • Vol. XVI, 1559–1565, Pius IV
  • Vol. XVII, 1566–1572, Pius V
  • Vol. XVIII, 1566–1572, Pius V
  • Vol. XIX, 1572–1585, Gregory XIII
  • Vol. XX, 1572–1585, Gregory XIII
  • Vol. XXI, 1585–1590, Sixtus V
  • Vol. XXII, 1585–1591, Sixtus V, Urban VII, Gregory XIV and Innocent IX
  • Vol. XXIII, 1592–1605, Clement VIII
  • Vol. XXIV, 1592–1605, Clement VIII
  • Vol. XXV, 1605–1621, Leo XI and Paul V
  • Vol. XXVI, 1605–1621, Leo XI and Paul V
  • Vol. XXVII, 1621–1644, Gregory XV and Urban VIII
  • Vol. XXVIII, 1621–1644, Gregory XV and Urban VIII
  • Vol. XXIX, 1621–1644, Gregory XV and Urban VIII
  • Vol. XXX, 1644–1655, Innocent X
  • Vol. XXXI, 1655–1676, Alexander VII, Clement IX and Clement X
  • Vol. XXXII, 1676–1700, Innocent XI, Alexander VIII and Innocent XII
  • Vol. XXXIII, 1700–1721, Clement XI
  • Vol. XXXIV, 1721–1740, Innocent XIII, Benedict XIII and Clement XII
  • Vol. XXXV, 1740–1758, Benedict XIV
  • Vol. XXXVI, 1740–1769, Benedict XIV and Clement XIII
  • Vol. XXXVII, 1758–1769, Clement XIII
  • Vol. XXXVIII, 1769–1774, Clement XIV
  • Vol. XXXIX, 1775–1799, Pius VI
  • Vol. XL, 1775–1799, Pius VI

References

Sources

  • Pastor @ New Catholic Dictionary
  • Ludwig Pastor, the Great German Historian: Catholic world, Volume 67, Issue: 397, Apr 1898 @ the University of Michigan