KELLNER, KARL ADAM HEINRICH. - Patrologist and liturgist, b. at Heiligenstadt am Eichfeld (Prussian Saxony) on 26 Aug. 1837, d. at Bonn on 6 Jan. 1915. Having become a priest, he devoted himself to the care of souls, then was professor of theology at the Seminary of Hildesheim (1867-74) and, from 1882 until his death, professor of patrology, liturgy and catechetics at the University of Bonn.

Among his writings are notable: the translation of the works of Tertullian (1882) and Ausgewählte Schriften des Sept. Tertullianus (2 vols., 2nd ed., 1912). His most valuable work is the Heortologie oder das Kirchenjahr und die Heiligenfeste in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung. Three editions appeared (Freiburg im Br. 1900, 1906 and 1911; Italian version by A. Mercati, L'anno ecclesiastico e le feste dei santi nel loro svolgimento storico, 2nd ed., Rome 1914); the work aroused the most flattering approval (cf., for example, Analecta Bollandiana, 21 [1902], p. 95). In it K. has in fact gathered with sound method and sifted a vast body of material for the history of the liturgical year and of its principal feasts.

Bibliography

BIBL.: W. Kosch, Das kath. Deutschland, II, Augusta 1933, col. 2066.

Giuseppe Löw

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