Klaus Gamber (23 April 1919 in

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- 2 June 1989 in

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) was a German Catholic

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. Author of ''Die Reform der römischen Liturgie'', which was subsequently translated into English and published as ''The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background'', he was one of the principal intellectual critics of the liturgical reforms brought under the papacy of

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. His critical work was praised by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the later Pope Benedict XVI), and he is credited for being one of the academic inspirations behind the motu proprio

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, allowing broader use of the

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References

*BALDOVIN John F. ''Klaus Gamber and the post-Vatican II reform of the Roman Liturgy'', Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Studia liturgica, 2003 *''The Modern Rite: Collected Essays on the Reform of the Liturgy by Msgr. Klaus Gamber'', St. Michaels Abbey Press, 2002. 96pp.
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