Léon Dacheux
Léon Dacheux (2 March 1835, in Bischheim – 8 March 1903, in Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic clergyman and historian.
He studied the classics at the Petit Séminaire and theology at the Grand Séminaire in Strasbourg, being ordained as a priest in 1857. In 1859 he attained the chair of rhetoric at the Petit Séminaire, and from 1868 onward, he served as a pastor in Neudorf-Strasbourg. In 1881 he was named supérieur at the Grand Séminaire, and in 1887 was appointed chanoine titulaire at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg.[1]
Selected works
- Un réformateur catholique a la fin du XVe siècle, Jean Geiler de Kaysersberg, prédicateur a la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, 1478-1510; étude sur sa vie et son temps, 1876 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, preacher at the Strasbourg Cathedral, 1478–1510: study of his life and his era,
- Les plus anciens écrits de Geiler de Kaysersberg: Todtenbüchlein, Beichtspiegel, Seelenheil, Sendtbrieff, Bilger, 1882 – The earliest writings of Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg.
- La Petite chronique de la cathédrale. : La chronique strasbourgeoise de Sébald Büheler, 1887 – The small chronicles of the Cathedral: The Strasbourg chronicles of Sebald Büheler.[2]
