1848-1853 Josef Burkard Leu, three anti-Jesuit works, one on Index

Josef Burkard Leu (1808-1865)

Warnung vor Neuerungen und Uebertreibungen in der katholischen Kirche Deutschlands.

Luzern, Kaiser. 1853

Bound after:

Imhof, Joseph [pseudonym of Josef Burkard Leu]

Die Jesuiten in Luzern, wie sie kamen, wirkten und gingen : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte dieses Kantons.

St. Gallen, Scheitlin and Zollikofer. 1848 

Bound after:

Augustin Theiner [edited by Josef Burkard Leu]

Clemens XIV und die Jesuiten: Nach d. Werke: Geschichte des Pontificats Clemens' XIV nach unedirten Staatsschriften aus dem geheimen Archive des Vaticans.

Luzern, Kaiser. 1853

23 x 15cm, front wrapper (dusty), (viii) 140 [2], 88 pages; iv, 88 pages. Together bound in original marbled boards.

In the fall of 1833, Leu was appointed professor of theology at the Lucerne Theological College. He initially taught dogmatics, apologetics, patristics and symbolism, and later mainly church history. Because of his opposition to the Jesuits, he was dismissed from the teaching post in 1845, but received his teaching post back in 1847.

From 1844 Leu published regularly in the Luzerner Volksblatt. He also published specialist theological literature and pamphlets, some of which appeared under a pseudonym. His work Warnung vor Neuerungen und Uebertreibungen in der katholischen Kirche Deutschlands, published in 1853, was put on the index a year after publication.