Storer, Franz
STORER, FRANZ
Missionary; b. Jan. 17, 1617, Konstantz, Germany;d. after 1658. He entered the Jesuits in 1635 and was professor of mathematics and Hebrew at Ingolstadt. Storer traveled with Father Henry Roth through Asia Minor and Persia to Goa, and served as missionary in India. In 1656 he traveled from Mokka (the Red Sea) to Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia. Anti-Catholic persecution handicapped his ministry, but he did serve as physician at the imperial court. His last letter known to be extant is of 1658; after this date there is no more trace of him. The letters were published by C. Beccari, Rerum aethiopicarum scriptores (v. 13 Rome 1913).
Bibliography: r. streit and j. dindinger, Biblioteca missionum (Freiburg 1916–) 16:458–459, 893, 940.
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