Albert Maria Ammann
Albert Maria Ammann SJ (3 March 1892 – 8 August 1974) was a German Roman Catholic priest, church and art historian.
Biography
Albert Maria Ammann was born in Munich, the first son of Ottmar Ammann and Ellen Ammann. He attended the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich. In the summer of 1911, he moved to Feldkirch to attend the Jesuit College and joined the novitiate in Tisis. He studied philosophy for three years in Valkenburg aan de Geul. When war broke out, he did medical service in the famous war hospital 51 and was ordained a priest on 23 June 1923. He was appointed to the Oriental Institute of Rome in October 1935 and became a full professor there in 1936. In 1948, he succeeded Guillaume de Jerphanion (1877–1948) as professor of Christian archaeology and Eastern Christian art.
Albert Maria Ammann died in Frankfurt.
Major publications
- Kirchenpolitische Wandlungen im Ostbaltikum bis zum Tode Alexander Newskis. Studien zum Werden der russischen Orthodoxie (1936)
- Abriss der ostslawischen Kirchengeschichte (1950)
- Die ostslawische Kirche im jurisdiktionellen Verband der byzantinischen Großkirche (988–1459) (1955)
- La pittura sacra bizantina (1957)
A list of his writings can be found in: Carmelo Capizzi, "In memoriam. Fr Alberto Maria Ammann S.J. (1892-1974)," Orientalia christiana periodica, Vol. XL (1974), pp. 428–34.
