Ludwig von Pastor

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Ludwig von Pastor
Born	31 January 1854 Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	30 September 1928 Innsbruck, Austria

Ludwig Pastor, ennobled as Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and 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 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.^[1]