Nicholas of Arseniev

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Nikolaus von Arseniew ( Russian: Николай Сергеевич Арсеньев , Nikolai Sergejewitsch Arseniew ; born May 28, 1888 in Stockholm , † 1977 in New York ) was a Russian emigrant and Russian Orthodox theologian in Koenigsberg (Prussia) .

Life

Arseniev left Russia after the October Revolution and became a “thinker of Russian emigration”. He taught at the Albertus University in Königsberg and in 1937 took part in the 2nd Conference of the Faith and Order Commission in Edinburgh . He reported to the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education , to whom he was directly subordinate.

Arseniev taught at the Albertus University in Königsberg until 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he lived in Paris and then moved to the USA.

After the end of the Second World War, Arseniev's writings The Russian Literature of Modern Times and Present (1929) and The Message of Victory (1934) were placed on the list of literature to be discarded in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts

  • Žažda podlinnago bytija: pessimizm i mistika . S. Efron and J. Ladyschnikow Verlag , Berlin 1923.
  • Friedrich Heiler (Ed.): Eastern Church and Mysticism (= From the world of Christian piety; Vol. 8). E. Reinhardt, Munich 1925. At the same time Königsberg, Phil. Diss., 1924. 2nd presumed edition by Reinhardt, Munich 1943. ( Table of contents )
  • Dostoyevsky's struggle for God . Mission publisher "Light in the East", Wernigerode and HG Wallmann, Leipzig 1925.
  • The Church of the Orient. Weltanschauung and pious life (= Göschen Collection; 918). W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1926.
  • as editor with Alfred von Martin : Die Ostkirche (= Una sancta; special issue). Frommann, Stuttgart 1927.
  • as editor: Evgenij N. Trubeckoj (Prince Eugen Trubetzkoy): The religious worldview of the old Russian icon painting . Translated by Georg von Arseniev. F. Schöningh, Paderborn 1927.
  • The Russian literature of modern times and the present in its intellectual context. In individual representations (= world and spirit). Dioskuren-Verlag, Mainz 1929. Authorized facsimile reprint from University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan and London 1980.
  • as editor: Grigorij Nikolaevič Knjaź Trubeckoj (Prince Gregor Trubetzkoy): The persecution of faith in Soviet Russia. The fight against God and the defense of faith in today's Soviet Union (= Russia Library; Vol. 6). Translated from the Russian by Count Alexander Fersen. H. Harder Verlag, Wernigerode and HG Wallmann, Leipzig 1930.
  • The development of the moral personality in Russian Christianity . C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1931.
  • The early Christian realism and the present , 2 parts. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1933.
  • The message of victory. Dedicated to the new Germany and the German youth . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1934.
  • The suffering and resurrection of the Lord in hymns of the Orthodox Church d. East (= The Gospel among the peoples of the East; Book 6). Mail order bookshop "Licht im Osten", Wernigerode 1938.
  • The Christian Occident of the present and the spirit of the Orthodox Church (touches and fertilizations) . From the files of the 1st Congress for Orthodox Theology, Athens 1936. Self-published, Königsberg 1938.
  • Holy Moscow. Images from the religious and spiritual life of the 19th century . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn and Haindrich, Vienna and Götschmann, Zurich 1940.
  • On the Spirit and Faith of the Church of the East (extended lecture). Leopold Klotz Verlag, Leipzig 1941.
  • The transfiguration of the world and of life in the aesthetic and religious experience . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1955.
  • Iz russkoj kuʹlturnoj i tvorčeskoj tradicii . Posev, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Russian piety (= library for orthodox theology and church; vol. 3). Translated from the French by Marc-René Jung. EVZ-Verlag, Zurich 1964.
  • The spiritual destinies of the Russian people . Styria Verlag , Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1966.
  • Dary i vstreči žiznennogo puti . Possev-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Delgado, K. Koch, E. Marsch: Europe, Thousand Year Reich and New World (2003)
  2. ↑ Fr. Ludwig: Between Criticism of Colonialism and Church Struggle (2000)
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit.html
personal data
SURNAME Arseniev, Nikolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arsenʹev, Nikolaj Sergeevič (full Russian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian emigrant and religious scholar at Albertus University
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 1977
Place of death New York , USA