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John Augustine Zahm
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Father John Augustine Zahm
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Father Zahm, CSC
Born June 14, 1851
New Lexington, Ohio
Died November 10, 1921 (aged 70)
Munich, Germany, en route to the Middle East
Other names H. J. Mozans
Education University of Notre Dame
Church Roman Catholicism
Ordained 1875
Title Holy Cross Priest
Father John Augustine Zahm (pseudonym H. J. Mozans), CSC (June 14, 1851 – November 10, 1921) was a Holy Cross priest, author, scientist, and South American explorer. He was born at New Lexington, Ohio, and died in Munich, Germany.[1]

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1 Education and Career
2 Writing
3 Presidential Friend
4 Death & Post Death
5 Works authored
6 Footnotes
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Education and Career[edit]
Zahm attended the University of Notre Dame in 1867 and graduated with honors in 1871 as a Novitiate of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.[2] He finished his theological studies and was ordained in 1875.[3] Zahm was hired by the University of Notre Dame as a science teacher although he had interest in literature.[4] During his time teaching he wrote the text Sound and Music in 1892.[5] He was appointed the Vice President of Notre Dame at 25 years old and held the position for nine years. In 1895, he was recognized as Dr. of Philosophy by Pope Leo XIII.[6] He went on to fill various positions in the Congregation, at one time being a provincial from 1898 to 1906 and served as Procurator General for the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Zahm became a leader in the drive to pacify the tensions between Roman Catholicism and Darwinian biology, and became well known in the Catholic arena as he was asked to speak in many Catholic Winter and Summer School lectures. His lectures concerning Genesis can be found in a volume called Bible, Science and Faith.

Writing[edit]
Father Zahm is the author of many scholarly texts and published works against the Darwin movement.[7] He also wrote Catholic scientific essays published in Ave Maria and American Catholic Quarterly Catholic World.[8] He fought through writing and used his detailed background in science to defend the ability of God and Catholic faith to remain in the scientific sphere. Focusing on Catholic men of science in the past, Zahm created a magazine called Catholic Science and Catholic Scientists. Between 1891 and 1896, Zahm published multiple books and articles on the topic, culminating with Evolution and Dogma in 1896.[9] In this text, as in his others, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism could fully accept an evolutionary view of biological systems, as long as this view was not centered around Darwin's theory of natural selection. After the Vatican decided to censure the book in 1898, Zahm fully accepted this rebuttal and pulled away from any writing concerning the relationship of theology and science.[10] He was the author (sometimes under the pseudonym of H. J. Mozans), of a number of books covering a large variety of subjects. He wanted to keep his identity as a secret for the fear of his works being cast away if his Catholic priestly identity was associated with them. His pseudonym was derived from the way he signed his name as a youth: Jno. S. (Stanislaus, an abandoned middle name) Zahm. His works have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and read in Europe, North and South America. Among these works are: Woman in Science (not to be confused with the plural phrase 'women in science'), and "Great Inspirers[11]" Both of these works were some of the first in exposing the idea that woman can be involved in the sciences and have been in past history. Through these works, Zahm defied beliefs that women were incapable and divinely appointed to not interfere with science. The Quest for El Dorado, and the general title of his trilogy was "Following the Conquistadores[12]", and the titles of books called "Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena" (1910), "Along the Andes and Down the Amazon" (1912), and "In South America's Southland[13]" (1916), draw from his travels throughout South America. He was an enthusiastic Dante student and assembled at Notre Dame one of the three largest of the Dante libraries in America.

Presidential Friend[edit]
Zahm befriended 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, who also loved and read Dante in Italian. It was Father Zahm who talked President Roosevelt into participating in what came to be known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to South America, and which would also include Theodore's son, Kermit, and Colonel Da Silva Candido Rondon, to go up the Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt, now the Roosevelt River). This trip[14] deteriorated into a near disaster which caused one man to drown, another to be murdered, and Roosevelt nearly dying, shortening his life by probably ten years from the combined effects of malaria and infection. The trip almost cost the others their lives as well, as the members lost boats to waterfalls and rapids and almost ran out of food. They barely made it to the first sign of civilization and some certainty that they would survive. The elder Roosevelt had to be carried off his canoe, so weak and ravaged by sickness had he become. Zahm unwisely delegated planning and provisioning of the trip, and so irritated Roosevelt and Rondon that he was not permitted to go on the expedition itself, but took a side trip instead. Throughout his life he collected maps, photographs, relics, and curios which were added to the valuable collection of fifteen hundred volumes of South American history and research work at Notre Dame.

Death & Post Death[edit]
He planned a book on historical and archaeological study of the Holy Land, but died of bronchial pneumonia in a Munich hospital en route to the Middle East. The manuscripts of his working book "From Berlin to Baghdad and Babylon[15]" was found and published posthumously.[16] Zahm Hall, a male dormitory at Notre Dame, is dedicated in his honor. The dorm's chapel is dedicated to St. Albert the Great, who Fr. Zahm saw as a pioneer in bridging the gap between science and religion.

Jacques married Mary Ellen Braddock on 6 May 1849 in Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of John Braddock and Elizabeth Storm) was born on 27 Feb 1827 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 18 Dec 1884 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1. NICHOLAS5 ZAHM (PIERRE4, JEAN3, JOHANNE PAUL2, NICHOLAS1) was born April 02, 1787 in OLSBURG, WOLMINSTER COUNTY, GERMANY, and died April 02, 1874 in SOMERSET, READING TOWNSHIP, PERRY COUNTY, OHIO. He married (1) ELIZABETH GARHART in OLDENBERG, daughter of MATTHIAS GARHART and CATHERINE WIESS. She was born Abt. 1790 in URBACH, LORRAINE, and died April 21, 1842 in PERRY COUNTY, OHIO.

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WILL OF NICHOLAS ZAHM

I, NICHOLAS ZAHM OF THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGTON, STATE OF INDIANA, DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS, MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT TO WIT.

I GIVE, BEQUEATH, AND DEVISE TO MY BELOVED CHILDREN OR THEIR HEIRS ALL MY PERSONAL PROPERTY, OR THE PROCEEDS AT TIME OF REMAINING UNCONSUMED AND UNEXPENDED AT MY DEATH, AFTER PAYING MY JUST DEBTS, TO BE DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS.

ITEM 1. TO MY DAUGHTER ANNIE OR HER HEIRS I GIVE AND BEQUEATH ONE DOLLAR TO BE PAID BY MY OTHER CHILDREN CONJOINTLY AFTER MY DEATH.

ITEM 2. TO MY OTHER CHILDREN NICHOLAS, MARGARET, CATHERINE, PETER, JACOB, MARY, GEORGE, AND THE HEIRS OF MY SON JOHN, FOR HIS SHARE, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE REST OF MY PERSONAL PROPERTY TO BE DIVIDED AMONG THEM IN EQUAL SHARES; MY SONS JACOB AND GEORGE TO BE EXECUTORS OF THIS WILL.

I HEREBY SO MAKE WELL AND VOID ANY AND EVERY FORMER WILL AND TESTAMENT, OTHER INSTRUMENT REGARDING MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

IN TESTIMONY WHERE I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 26TH DAY OF AUGUST 1870.

NICHOLAS ZAHM



NICHOLAS ZAHM WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER IN NAPOLEON'S ARMY. One source says Nicholas moved to the United States in 1829, stopped in PA and moved on to Wooster, Ohio before moving on to Perry County, Ohio near Somerset in 1839. In 1864 He was said to have moved to Huntington, IN., remaining there for 9 years before returning to Perry County, Ohio where he died on his birthday on April 2, 1874.





Somerset Press

Friday, April 10, 1874 Page 3

DIED, after a lingering illness, on Thursday morning, at half past 8 o'clock, at the residence of Mr. George Green, near St. Joseph's Perry Co., Ohio. Mr. Nicholas Zahm, aged 87 years.

The subject of this notice was born at Olsburg, in Wolminster County, Germany, on the 2nd day of April, 1787, and moved to this country at the age of 42 years. After landing at New York City, he purchased a horse and wagon and in his humble way, he moved his little family across the mountains to Wayne County, Ohio, where he resided till the year 1838, when he moved to Perry County, Ohio, where he purchased a small farm near St. Joseph's, on which he lived for many years. Becoming old and feeble, he sold his farm to his daughter, Mrs. Beber, and chose his home with his son-in-law Mr. George Green, where he died, as will be seen, on the morning of his 87th birthday. Mr. Zahm was a quiet, inoffensive man; honest and industrious; a strict member of the Catholic church; without an enemy on earth, he has left an example worthy of imitation. He left four sons and four daughters together with one hundred grand and great grand children to mourn his loss.





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Burial: ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY, SOMERSET, OHIO

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also Elizabeth Capart poss.

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Burial: ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY, SOMERSET, OHIO

More About NICHOLAS ZAHM and ELIZABETH GARHART:

Marriage: OLDENBERG

Children of NICHOLAS ZAHM and ELIZABETH GARHART are:

Nicholas married Elisabeth Gerhardt. Elisabeth (daughter of Matthias Gerhardt and Katharina Weis) was born in 1790 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 21 Apr 1842 in Perry County, Ohio, USA; was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Elizabeth Storm on 25 May 1826. Elizabeth (daughter of John Storm and Susan Wysong) was born on 13 Nov 1800 in Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1860 in Kentucky, USA; was buried in Sacred Heart Parish Cemetery, St. Vincent, Union County, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Matthias married Katharina Weis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Susan Wysong in 1796 in Pennsylvania, USA. Susan was born on 25 Jul 1773 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 11 Nov 1837 in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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