Background
He was born in Linkenstein, Baden-Württemberg, into the Freiherr Lamezan-Salins family, and educated by the Jesuits in Fribourg.
He was born in Linkenstein, Baden-Württemberg, into the Freiherr Lamezan-Salins family, and educated by the Jesuits in Fribourg.
He had just been appointed professor of rhetoric in 1847 when the Jesuits were expelled from Switzerland. He lived for a while as a refugee in the Savoy, then was an informer in Basel. He was a professor of rhetoric again in Issenheim and worked as Schlußprobandus in Drongen.
From March 1851 until the fall of 1855 von Lamezan was the second preacher in the Münster Cathedral in Westphalia, and for the next four years he led the Jesuits in Cologne and preached in the church of the Minorites there.
Among those are six sermons on Die Hauptmomente des Lebens (1870). Eight sermons for Lent (Fastenpredigt), Wollet nicht lieben die Welt (1872, 2nd edition 1882).
And eighteen on Die Vollkommenheiten Gottes (1882) (published with a biographical sketch by P Drecker).