IGNATZ LINDL (1774-1835)

IGNATZ LINDL (1774-1835)
Jesuit priest, charismatic reformer, promoting return to simple rites, married priesthood, ecumenicalism, common ownership. Founder of Sarat, a settlement of Bessarabian Germans, in 1822. Czar Alexander I became a supporter, after hearing Lindl preach.

Lindl's two works are bound together in this scarce first American edition, printed in German Fracture for Pennsylvania's German-speaking community.

1830, Harrisburg, Pa, Gustav S. Peters

KERN DES CHRISTENTHUMS
nebst einer abhandlung uber die sunde wider den Heiligen Geist...parts I, II, III, pp 1 - 108.
(bound together with)
EIN ERNSTES WORT AN UNSERE ZEIT
(pp 1 - 58 )

Total 166 pages, plus introductary pages numbered i - vi.
5-2/3 x 3-3/4", hard cover, quarter calf on marbled boards, gilt titled spine;

This copy is in unusually sound original condition.

price .................................................................. $ 350.