In Memoriam

Adalbert Deckert, O.Carm., (1913-2008): Rückblick auf Leben und Werk

Abstract

The years around 1950 have brought a period of a growing historical interest within the Carmelite Order. More than a decade  before the Vatican Council called all religious orders to search for their “sound traditions” (Perfectae Caritatis, 2) the Dutch Province  founded the Nederlandsch Carmelitaansch Historisch Instituut in 1945 as well as Prior General Kilian Lynch founded the Institutum Carmelitanum in 1951. On sides of the Discalced Carmelites, the first volume of the new critical edition of Teresa of Avila’s works appeared in the same year 1951. Father Adalbert Deckert represents this growing historical interest within the Upper German  Province. He was born in 1913, entered the order in 1932, received his doctorate in 1950 and was appointed member of the Institutum  Carmelitanum in 1958.