LC control no. | n 79063959 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Speyr, Adrienne von |
Variant(s) | Kaegi, Adrienne von Speyr, 1902-1967 Dürr-von Speyr, Adrienne, 1902-1967 Von Speyr, Adrienne, 1902-1967 Kaegi-von Speyr, Adrienne, 1902-1967 |
Associated country | Switzerland |
Birth date | 1902-09-20 |
Death date | 1967-09-17 |
Place of birth | La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) |
Place of death | Basel (Switzerland) |
Profession or occupation | Physicians Theologians |
Found in | Magd des Herrn, 1948: title page (Adrienne von Speyr) Speyr, Adrienne von. Beichte. English. Confession, 1964: title page (Adrienne von Speyr) Handmaid of the Lord, 2017: title page (Adrienne von Speyr) cover (1902-1967, Swiss medical doctor, a convert to Catholicism, a mystic, and an author of more than sixty books on spirituality and theology) Wikipedia, viewed December 17, 2019 (Adrienne von Speyr; born September 20, 1902, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; died September 17, 1967, in Basel; Swiss physician and theologian; author of over 60 books of spirituality and theology; she was the first woman in Switzerland to be admitted to the medical profession; she is considered by some to have been a mystic and stigmatist; converted to Catholicism in 1940; close associate of Hans Urs von Balthasar, to whom she dictated her books; she was married first to Emil Dürr (1927 to 1934) and secondly to history professor Werner Kaegi) |
Associated language | ger |