Ludwig von Pastor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig von Pastor

German historian and Austrian diplomat

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1854

Place of Birth: Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1928

Profession: diplomat, historian, church historian

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria.
He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes.
He was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1908.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.