Wetzer-Welte Kirchenlexikon

{{Short description|Encyclopedic work of Catholic biography, history, and theology}} {{Distinguish|text= the Bautz Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon from 1975}} {{italic title}} '''''Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon''''' is an encyclopedic work of Catholic biography, history, and theology, first compiled by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer and Benedict Welte. The first edition in 12 volumes was published from 1847 to 1860, by Verlag Herder.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Herder |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07251c.htm |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref>

Another edition, edited by Joseph Hergenröther and Franz Philip Kaulen and subtitled ''Encylopädie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hülfswissenschaften'', was published in Freiburg from 1882 through 1903.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Kirchen-Lexikon oder Encyklopädie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften. 1, Aaron - Bibelübersetzungen' - Digitalisat {{!}} MDZ |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10786456?page=5 |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=www.digitale-sammlungen.de}}</ref>

== Bibliography == * Holweck, F. G., ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

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==External links== * [http://www.mgh.de/bibliothek/virtueller-lesesaal/wetzer-und-welte-s-kirchenlexikon/ ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522055212/http://www.mgh.de/bibliothek/virtueller-lesesaal/wetzer-und-welte-s-kirchenlexikon/ |date=2011-05-22 }} mirror of Google books digitalization

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