Léon Dacheux


Léon Dacheux was an Alsatian Catholic clergyman and historian.
He studied the classics at the Petit Séminaire and theology at the Grand Séminaire in Strasbourg, being ordained as a priest in 1857. In 1859 he attained the chair of rhetoric at the Petit Séminaire, and from 1868 onward, he served as a pastor in Neudorf-Strasbourg. In 1881 he was named supérieur at the Grand Séminaire, and in 1887 was appointed chanoine titulaire at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg.

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