DILGSKRON, KARL. - Redemptorist, b. in Vienna on 31 Aug. 1843, and d. there on 1 June 1912. He taught philosophy and theology at Mautern (Styria); from 1878 to 1883 he was a preacher in Vienna and Prague; from 1883 to 1909 consultor general of his Congregation and then also of the Congregation of Indulgences and Relics in Rome, where he likewise became an esteemed preacher and confessor of the German colony.

An eminent connoisseur of the history of his Congregation, he wrote the biographies of St. Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (2 vols., Regensburg 1887), of St. Gerard Majella (ibid. 1879, 7th ed. 1923), of Fr. John Nepomucene Neumann (ibid. 1891), of Fr. John Baptist Eichelsbacher (Dülmen 1890), of Fr. Smetana (ibid. 1902), of Fr. Tendler (Vienna 1905), of Fr. Frederick von Held (ibid. 1909); the history of the Redemptorist church of St. Maria am Gestade in Vienna (ibid. 1882) and also numerous works on moral theology, law and preaching.

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BIBL.: L. Leitgeb-C. Tauscher, Lebensbilder der 1887-1914 verstorbenen Redemptoristen der Österreich. Procina, Vienna 1924, pp. 332-346; M. De Meulemeester, Bibliog. génér. des écrivains Rédemptoristes, II, Louvain 1935, pp. 123-24.

Ireneo Daniele

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