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Joseph Strub, C.S.Sp. (November 1, 1833 – January 27, 1890), an Alsatian missionary priest with the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, was the founder of what is today Duquesne University, which was called the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost until 1911.
Little information exists concerning Father Joseph Strub, however his life can be somewhat documented upon his arrival to America. Exiled from his native Germany after enduring the anti-Catholic policies of Otto von Bismarck, Strub and five other priests moved to Ohio and briefly settled.
HOLY GHOST FATHERS. (CSSP, Official Catholic Directory #0650); a congregation of priests and lay brothers; they are known also as Spiritans but the official title is the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Since 1855 the members have bound themselves by simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
The history of the first catholic school in Conway, AR began in 1881. Father Strub, pastor at that time, contacted the Sisters of St. Joseph, Cluny, France. A plot of land was procured for the school on the Northeast corner of Deer and Locust Avenue.
Duquesne was founded on Oct. 1, 1878, as Pittsburgh Catholic College by the Rev. Joseph Strub and the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. The College's 40 students and six faculty members held classes in rented space above a bakery on Wylie Avenue, in Pittsburgh's Hill District.
Alsapan was born from an industrial vision initiated in 1972 by Joseph Strub, an Alsatian carpenter, and then by his children and his granddaughter Cécile Cantrelle. An unique story, whose values still structure our corporate culture:
Joseph Strub, Provincial of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, for sisters to teach in his newly built parish school. Father Strub, upon a visit to Europe, personally contacted the Mother Superior of the Order of St. Charles Borromeo, a German or der with Polish sisters, who had their motherhouse in Cieszy?, Upper Silesia, Poland.
