Heim, Bruno Bernhard

LC control no.	n 81134923
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Heim, Bruno Bernhard *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Heim, Bruno B. Heim, Bruno Bernard
Associated country	Switzerland
Associated place	Italy France Germany Egypt Great Britain
Birth date	1911-03-05
Death date	2003-03-18
Place of birth	Olten (Switzerland)
Field of activity	Heraldry Catholic Church--Heraldry
Affiliation	Pontificio Ateneo "Angelicum" Pontificia Università gregoriana
Profession or occupation	Bishops Priests Diplomats
Found in	His Wappenbrauch und Wappenrecht, 1948. Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014 (Archbishop Heim, Apostolic Delegate to the United Kingdom since 1973; b. 1911) The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society website, viewed February 1, 2024 (Archbishop Bruno B. Heim, J.C.D., Ph.D.; sometime Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Great Britain; patron of Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society, 1980-2003; the Most Rev. Bruno Bernard Heim; born in Olten, Switzerland on March 5, 1911; introduced to heraldry at age 16 when a college professor asked him to illustrate the book he was writing; admitted as a Ph.D. at Thomas Aquinas University (Angelicum), Rome, 1934; ordained as a priest in 1938 in Basle and Arbon; studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy for Diplomats, Rome, 1943; chief chaplain for Italian and Polish internees in Switzerland, 1943; admitted as Doctor in Canon Law (J.C.D.) at Gregorian University, 1946; personal secretary to the Papal Nuncio of France, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), 1947; counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the Nunciature in Germany; appointed Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia 1961, to Finland in 1966, to Egypt in 1969, to Great Britain in 1973, and to the Court of St James's in 1982; retired in 1985; author of Heraldry in the Catholic Church (1978, rev. 1981), and Or and Argent (1994); Archbishop Heim died on March 18, 2003)
Associated language	ger eng