Adalbert Ebner was a German Catholic

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 clergyman and liturgiologist born in Straubing

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.

He received his ordination

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 in 1886 at Regensburg

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, where he subsequently served as Chorvikar at the Alten Kapelle. From 1892 he was dozent

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 of patrology, Christian archaeology

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 and liturgy at the Catholic University in Eichstätt

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. At Eichstätt

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 he also served as Domvicar from 1892 until his death in 1898 at the age of 36.

Ebner specialized in liturgical research

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. He was the author of a scholarly monograph

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 on the history of Missale Romanum

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 titled Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte des Missale Romanum im Mittelalter (Resources and Research involving History and Art History

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 of the Roman Missal

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 in the Middle Ages

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- 1896). Other works by Ebner include:

• Die klösterlichen Gebets-Verbrüderungen bis zum Ausgange deskarolingischen Zeitalters. Eine kirchengeschichtliche Studie, (1890)
• Über die gegenwärtigen Aufgaben und Ziele der liturgisch-historischenForschung, (1898)