Joseph Strub
| Rev. Joseph Strub, C.S.Sp. | |
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| Born |
November 1, 1833 Strasbourg, Alsace, Kingdom of France |
| Died | January 27, 1890 (aged 57) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Ordained | 1858 in Dakar, Senegal |
Joseph Strub, C.S.Sp. (November 1, 1833 – January 27, 1890), an Alsatian missionary priest with the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, was the founder of what is today Duquesne University, which was called the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost until 1911.
Joseph Strub was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine on November 1, 1833. While studying to become a Holy Ghost Father, he was given permission to do missionary work in West Africa. He worked there from 1857 to 1863, being ordained a priest in 1858 in Dakar, Senegal. He became the Vicar General to Mgr. Kobes, the Vice Superior of Dakar, and subsequently the provincial superior at Marienthal and Marienstadt Abbeys in Westerwald, Germany. He was Chaplain General of the French prisoners at Mainz during the Franco-Prussian War, and became an intimate friend of Marshal Patrice de Mac-Mahon. He was rewarded for his services by the French government with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Strub and his order were expelled from Germany during Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf in 1872. Strub and five priests moved to Ohio, but relocated a few years later after hearing of a demand for German priests in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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