Alexei Petrovich Malzew

Alexei Petrovich Malzew

Alexei Petrovich Maltsev ( Russian Алексей Петрович Мальцев ; in German literature mostly Alexei Maltzev : even Alexios of Maltzev * 14; ^jul. / 26. March  1854 ^greg. In the province of Yaroslavl , † * 15. ^jul. / 28. April  1915 ^greg. in Kislovodsk ) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest , theologian , translator and the founder of the brotherhood of the Holy Prince Vladimir .

Origin and education

Alexei Malzew came from the family of a priest in the Yaroslavl Governorate of the Russian Empire .

He studied theology at the Yaroslavl Spiritual Seminary and the Saint Petersburg Spiritual Academy . In 1878 he became a master of theology (Dr. theol.). In 1882 he was ordained a priest. He taught philosophy , psychology and education at the St. Petersburg Spiritual Seminary and in several girls' high schools in St. Petersburg . In 1886 he was promoted to archpriest and appointed head of the Russian embassy church of St. Vladimir in Berlin .

Activity in Germany

From the beginning of his tenure in Berlin, Malzew recognized the plight of Russian citizens who found themselves penniless in various cities of the German Empire after failed attempts to emigrate to America, and in 1886 he tried to found a charity. In 1888, the statutes of the Charitable Orthodox Brotherhood of Holy Prince Vladimir, drafted by him, were approved by the ecclesiastical authorities and the Russian Foreign Ministry. The founding meeting of the brotherhood took place on April 10, 1890 in the Russian embassy in Berlin . In 1892 the brotherhood set up an orthodox cemetery with a chapel in Dalldorf near Tegel and built the Kaiser-Alexander-Heim opposite in 1895, a hospice with workshops, gardening and printing, where people in need could earn money through work for their return journey to the Russian Empire. Under Malzew's leadership, the brotherhood built Russian churches in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1899), Bad Kissingen (1901), Görbersdorf in Schlesien (1901), Hamburg (1901/02), Bad Nauheim (1908), Bad Brückenau (1908), Bad Wildungen (1912) and Danzig (1913). Malzew actually headed the brotherhood, although formally he was only its treasurer or later secretary.

Malzew was best known as a theologian and translator . His translations of Russian liturgical books into German form the basis for Orthodox services in German to this day . Between 1890 and 1904 he published the following translations: “The divine liturgies”, “Liturgies of the Orthodox Catholic Church”, “Liturgicon”, “The Night Watch”, “Devotional Book”, “Prayer, thanksgiving and consecration services »,« Funeral rites and some special and ancient worship services »,« The Sacraments »,« Lent and Flower Triodion »,« Menologion of the Orthodox Catholic Church »,« Oktoechos ... the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient »,« The Great Penitential Canon ».

As a theologian, Malzew took part in many international congresses and conducted extensive correspondence with representatives of other Christian denominations. He hoped for a rapprochement between the Orthodox Church and the Christian communities that had preserved the Apostolic Succession .

Under Malzew, his brotherhood published several books and magazines, in particular reference works on Russian and Orthodox institutions abroad (1906 and 1911) and the magazine "Zerkovaya Pravda" (The Church Truth) (1913-1914).

Malzew has received many awards for his life's work. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Spiritual Academy and its sister organizations in Moscow and Kazan , the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society , the Society of United Orthodox Brotherhoods of New York , the Archaeological Society of Athens , the Royal Serbian Society of Saint Sawwa and others. In 1898 he was raised to hereditary nobility . He enjoyed great respect in church circles. From 1906 he took part in the preparation of an all-Russian church council in Saint Petersburg. In 1907 he was supposed to be appointed Orthodox Bishop of North America, but he refused to continue working in the framework of the brotherhood in Germany. In particular, he wanted to build a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Berlin. After the outbreak of World War I , Malzew was expelled from Germany with all Russian diplomats on August 3, 1914 and returned to Russia via Scandinavia .

In Moscow he hoped at least to be able to continue his journalistic activities. As a result of his worsening diabetes , however, he went to the health resort Kislovodsk , where he died on April 15 (28) 1915. He was buried in the Nicholas Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Petrograd . His grave, rediscovered in 2000, is cared for by the still existing brotherhood of the holy Prince Vladimir.

Works

• The ethical philosophy of utilitarianism . A historical-critical research. Master thesis. Saint Petersburg 1879.
• The current development and importance of utilitarianism . Saint Petersburg 1880.
• Questions for mothers and children. Saint Petersburg 1881.
• Bibliographical Notes. Twenty speeches from the teaching practice of the Greek teacher N. Korsunksi. "Zerkowny Westnik" No. 7, 1882.
• Basis of pedagogy. Saint Petersburg 1885.
• The International Congress of Old Catholics. 1890.
• The divine liturgies. Berlin 1890.
• The night watch or evening and morning service of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Berlin 1892. ND 2005
• On the way (W dobry put '). Foreign calendar. Berlin 1892.
• The second international Old Catholic Congress in Lucerne. " Novoye wremja ". 1892.
• The Russian Church based on the portrayal of a Roman Catholic writer. "Christianskoje Tschtenije". 1894.
• Dogmatic explanations for an introduction to the understanding of the Oriental-Catholic views in their relationship to Roman and Protestant views. Berlin 1894.
• The liturgies of the Orthodox-Catholic Church of the Orient taking into account the episcopal rite together with a historical-comparative consideration of the main liturgies of the Orient and Occident (Liturgicon). Berlin 1894. 3rd edition Berlin 1902, ND 2005
• The great penance canon. Berlin 1894.
• Devotional book of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Berlin 1895. ND 2005
• The holy coronation. Berlin 1896.
• Prayer, thanksgiving and consecration services of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Berlin 1897. ND 2005
• The Sacraments of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Berlin 1898. ND 2005
• Burial rite and some special and ancient services of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Berlin 1898. ND 2005
• Triodion of Lent and Flowers together with the Sunday songs of Octoichus of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient: Slavic and German taking into account the Greek original. Berlin 1899 digitized
• Old Catholicism and Orthodoxy. "Zerkownye Vedomosti" No. 42. 1898.
• Menologion of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. I. Part (September-February). Berlin 1900. ND 2005
• Menologion of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Part II (March-August). Berlin 1903. ND 2009
• Oktoechos or Parakletike of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. I. part (tone I-IV). Berlin 1903. ND 2009
• The liturgies of the Orthodox-Catholic Church of the Orient taking into account the episcopal rite together with a historical-comparative consideration of the main liturgies of the Orient and Occident. (Liturgikon) 3rd edition Berlin 1902. ND 2005
• Germany in ecclesiastical and religious terms with a description of the Orthodox Russian churches. Saint Petersburg 1903.
• Oktoechos or Parakletike of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Orient. Part II (tone V-VIII). Berlin 1904. ND 2009
• From the past of orthodox Russian churches in Berlin. Saint Petersburg 1905.
• For the 15th anniversary of the Brotherhood of St. Prince Vladimir. Berlin 1906.
• Berlin Brotherhood Yearbook. Saint Petersburg 1906.
• About theological education in Germany, England and America. Saint Petersburg 1906.
• The Inner Mission. Minutes of the commission for the preparation of the council. Saint Petersburg 1906.
• Berlin Brotherhood Yearbook. Berlin 1911.
• The Divine Liturgies. Berlin 1911.
• The Church Truth (Zerkownaja Prawda) (magazine), № 1-24, Berlin 1913.
• The Church Truth (Zerkownaja Prawda) (magazine), № 25-39, Berlin 1914.

11 volumes with liturgical texts were reprinted in 2005 and 2009 .

literature

• Andrei Roginez. Archpriest Alexei Malzew, his life and his liturgical works (Russian). - Trinity Monastery, Sagorsk 1973–1974.
• Gleb Rahr . A living legacy of great Russia: the brotherhood of St. Vladimir (Russian). In: “Russkoje Wosroschdenije”, New-York 1983.
• Joachim Danz: Alexios von Maltzew. His liturgical edition and his ecumenical intention . Diploma thesis in the department of Catholic theology; Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg; 1985.
• Nikolaus Thon : The Russian Orthodox community in Berlin until the beginning of the First World War . From: Der "Christian Osten", Würzburg 1986.
• Wolfgang Heller:  MAL'CEV, Aleksej Petrovič. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 610-613.
• Dimitrij Rahr: “ Woswraschschenie Bratstwu chrama sww. rawnoapostol'nych Konstantina i Eleny i russkago kladbischscha w Berline-Tegele "(Return of the Church of St. Constantine and Helena and the Russian cemetery in Berlin-Tegel to the brotherhood) (Russian), in:" Bratskij Westnik "№ 21, Bad Kissingen 2006.
• Tatiana Forner: Russians in Germany . Self-published by Club Dialog e. V., Berlin 2008.

Web links

• Film: Lecture by subdiacon Nikolaus Thon about A.Malzew in the Orthpedia Multimedia Channel
• Wilhelm Kahle: AP Maltzew's life's work
• Maltzew in the “Europaica Bulletin”, No. 39/2004
• Verlag M.Pfeifer: Reprint Maltzew works
• Archpriest S.Taurit: History of the Russian-Orth. Parish in Berlin
• The Alexej-Maltzew-Gäßchen on the map of Bad Nauheim