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The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages #40
The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume 40: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources; Pius VI; 1775 1799
Excerpt from The History of the Popes From the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 40: Drawn From the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources; Pius Vi; 1775 1799
These representations of the nuncio, which could have had no other object than to pave the way for negotiations, fell on ground that was not entirely unprepared. Since the Alsatian Franz Heinrich Beck had come within the inner circle of the Archbishop's acquaintances, in 1773, things had not been the same in Trier as in the days when the Elector had given his suffragan Bishop protection and security without hesitation. Beck,2 who had had the advantage of being trained in Stras bourg, had worked as a member of the Society of Jesus in Alsace, and then in Wiirttemberg. For some time now he had been exerting a considerable influence on the Electoral Court of Trier, and in an anti-febronian direction.
These representations of the nuncio, which could have had no other object than to pave the way for negotiations, fell on ground that was not entirely unprepared. Since the Alsatian Franz Heinrich Beck had come within the inner circle of the Archbishop's acquaintances, in 1773, things had not been the same in Trier as in the days when the Elector had given his suffragan Bishop protection and security without hesitation. Beck,2 who had had the advantage of being trained in Stras bourg, had worked as a member of the Society of Jesus in Alsace, and then in Wiirttemberg. For some time now he had been exerting a considerable influence on the Electoral Court of Trier, and in an anti-febronian direction.
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Published February 10, 2019
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Ludwig von Pastor
101 books3 followersLudwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman 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. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.
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