Adalbert kurzja

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Adalbert Kurzja OSB (born November 24, 1920 in Ratiborhammer as Franz Kurzja ; † April 12, 2016 in Andernach ) was a German Roman Catholic religious . From 1977 to 1990 he was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach .

Life

Franz Kurzja, one of nine children from a family of butchers, was initially committed to the Reich Labor Service after graduating from high school in Racibórz in 1939 . Shortly after starting his theology studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau , he was drafted into the armed forces. After deployments on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner by the British in Italy , where he was used to clear rubble in the Montecassino Abbey, which was destroyed in 1943 .

After the end of the war he continued his theology studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and finished it in 1952 with a licentiate in theology. On October 10, 1951, he was ordained a priest in Rome by Archbishop Luigi Traglia . He returned to Germany, which entered Congregation of Benedictines at the Abbey Maria Laach and took the religious name of Adalbert on. He worked there as a librarian, ceremonial and sacristan. At the Theological Faculty of Trier , he conducted research on liturgy scientific questions and was founded in 1967 with a thesis on the oldest Liber professor of Trier Cathedral , a manuscript of the British Museum from the early 14th century, the Dr. theol. PhD . Kurzja was then a research assistant at the Trier Theological Faculty and later a specialist advisor at the German Liturgical Institute in Trier.

On February 15, 1977 he was elected as the successor of Urbanus Bomm OSB as the 47th abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach. The abbot was given on March 20, 1977 by the Trier bishop Bernhard Stein in the Laacher Münster. His motto was Confirma fratres tuos - Strengthen your brothers ( Lk 22.32  EU ). On November 4, 1990, he resigned for reasons of age.

Former Abbot Adalbert died on April 12, 2016 at the age of 95. He was buried on April 21, 2016 in Maria Laach.

Act

Kurzja was instrumental in the German version of the under Pope Paul VI. involved in the newly published Roman Missal . He was also significantly involved in the development of the German breviary (Liturgy of the Hours for the secular priests).

He was permanently committed to the reconciliation between Poles and Germans and the cooperation between the Catholic Church in Germany and the Catholic Church in Poland . He did not shy away from controversies with the Polish clergy, whose nationalistic stance and theological justification for the expulsion of the Germans after 1945 he criticized. His correspondence with Bolesław Kominek was groundbreaking for post-war relations between the Polish and German episcopates. Since 1957, also during the period of martial law in Poland , he organized numerous aid deliveries to his native Silesia . Numerous essays and works on the history of Silesia originate from him, for example about the Benedictine monastery Grüssau in the Giant Mountains and about Adolf Cardinal Bertram .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • The oldest Liber Ordinarius of the Trier cathedral church. London, Brit. Mus., Harley 2958, beginning of the 14th century. A contribution to the liturgy history of the German local churches. (= Liturgical scientific sources and research 52), Aschendorff, Münster 1970.
  • Cardinal Bertram and the Diocese of Katowice 1939–1945. In: Oberschlesisches Jahrbuch 12 (1996) 107–120, Mann, Berlin 1997.
  • The stages in the development of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Trier Church. In: Trier Theological Journal vol. 77 (1968) p. 104-119.

literature

  • Emmanuel von Severus OSB: In the midst of his own, like one who serves - Bishop Dr. Bernhard Stein consecrated the 47th abbot of Maria Laach. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler (HJbKAhrweiler) 35, 1978, p. 8
  • Emmanuel von Severus OSB: To the 47th Abbot of Maria Laach Dr. Adalbert Kurzja on his 60th birthday on November 24, 1980. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler (HJbKAhrweiler) 38, 1981, p. 17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Zmarł o. Adalbert kurzja OSB" on gliwice.gosc.pl from April 14, 2016, accessed on April 18, 2016 (Polish)
  2. ↑ a b c d e entry about Adalbert kurzja on orden-online.de , accessed on March 25, 2016
  3. ^ Kurzja, Adalbert, in: Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography), version of June 2, 2013: Entry about Adalbert kurzja , accessed on March 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Bearer of the plaque of honor of the Federation of Expellees , Federation of Expellees , accessed on March 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Honorary Members of the German-Polish Society of the University of Wrocław , University of Wrocław , accessed on March 25, 2016
predecessor Office successor
Urbanus Bomm Abbot of Maria Laach
1977–1990 		Anno Schoenen
personal data
SURNAME Briefly, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurzja, Franz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic religious
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor hammer
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2016
Place of death Then after