Anton de Waal
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Anton Joseph Johann Maria de Waal was a German Christian archeologist and Roman Catholic church historian. He established the Collegio Teutonico del Campo Santo and carried out numerous archeological
Portrait of Monsignor Anton de Waal (1915)
Monsignor Anton de Waal (center, next to the pope), in audience to Pope Pius X in 1913 with the Deutschen Gesellenverein Rom.
Anton de Waal on his funeral bier, 24 February 1917.
Cover of De Waal's biography of Pope Benedict XV, 1915
Giovanni Battista de Rossi was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs. He collaborated with Wilhelm Henzen and Theodor Mommsen in the compi
Anton de Waal
…Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Camposanto dei Teutonici. He devoted his scientific interest principally to Christian archaeology, encouraged by Giovanni Battista de Rossi. In 1892-93 and again in 1915, de Waal carried out excavations at San Sebastiano Catacombs on the Via Appia. In 1876 de Waal obtained from Pope Pius…
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