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[German Version] (Mar 1, 1821, Burtscheid, near Aachen – Jan 4, 1896, Bonn), church historian and in 1873 the first bishop of the German Old Catholics. He studied theology, philosophy, and classical philology in Bonn, then attended seminary in Cologne. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1848 and received his doctorate at Munich in 1849. Because of his association ¶ with the circle surrounding A. Günther in Bonn, Archbishop J. v. Geissel prevented him from receiving his Habilitation there; he finally received it in 1850 at Breslau (Wrocław), where he then taught as a lec…

[German Version] (Oct 19, 1815, Koblenz – Jan 28, 1872, Vallendar) joined the order of the Borromeans (Sister Augustine) in Nancy in 1840, trained as a pharmacist, and began working at Aachen Hospital in 1842. She took permanent vows in 1843 and offici-¶ ated as the first mother superior of the St. Johannis Hospital in Bonn from 1849 to 1871, becoming widely known through care of the wounded from the German-Danish War (1864) and the Austro-Prussian War (1866). Lasaulx concerned herself with the theological issues of the time and cultivat…