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  1. Wilhelm Kettler (20 June 1574 – 7 April 1640) was the Duke of Courland, a Baltic German region in today's Latvia. Wilhelm ruled the western Courland portion of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, while his brother Friedrich ruled the eastern Semigallia portion.

  2. Jul 9, 2024 · Wilhelm Emmanuel, baron von Ketteler was a social reformer who was considered by some to have been Germany’s outstanding 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained a priest in 1844 and appointed bishop of Mainz in 1850, Ketteler attracted national attention by his sermons and writings.

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  3. Bishop Kettler. WILHELM EMMANUEL FREIHERR VON KETTELER, (1811-1877) made his national debut in 1848, and in the following decades became the leading Catholic social thinker in Germany.

  4. May 28, 2019 · Wilhelm Kettler was the second Duke of Courland, a region of Latvia. Wilhelm ruled the western Courland portion of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia while his brother Friedrich ruled the eastern Semigallia portion.

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    • April 20, 1640
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  5. Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler responded to the «Social Question” of 1848 with a series of six sermons, the Advent Sermons, and thereby laid the theoretical groundwork for «Modern Catholic Social Thought.”

  6. German bishop, pioneer in Catholic social thought; b. M ü nster, Westphalia, Dec. 25, 1811; d. Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, July 13, 1877. Career. After completing legal studies he entered government service as a law clerk (1835), but left it (1838) in protest against Prussia's treatment of Abp. Clemens von Droste zu Vischering of Cologne in the ...

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  8. This is a Portrait of Wilhelm Kettler (1574 – 1640), the Duke of Courland and Semigallia [ the territory of today's Latvia - Eastern European state by the Baltic Sea ].

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