Lutolf, Adolf

Lutolf, Adolf a Roman Catholic theologian, was born in 1824. He studied under Hirscher and Dollinger, and after having spent some years at St. Gall, Lucerne, and Solothurn, as teacher and as priest, was called, in. 1868, to Lucerne as professor of Church history and canon of St. Leodegar. He died April 8, 1879, leaving Forschungen und Quellen zur Kirchengeschichte der Schweiz (Lucerne, 1871). (B.P.)