Alfons Nowack

Alfons Maria Adalbert Nowack (born August 8, 1868 in Groß Strehlitz , Upper Silesia , † March 13, 1940 in Breslau ) was a German regional historian and archivist and director of the Archbishop's Diocesan Archives in Breslau.

Life

His parents were Anton Nowack, a postal worker in Groß Strehlitz, and Hedwig Nowack, née Wontrobka. He attended elementary school and graduated from the Königliche Johanneum Gymnasium in Groß Strehlitz in 1887 with a secondary school leaving certificate. In 1887 he began studying theology at the University of Breslau and attended the lectures by Colmar Grünhagen and Georg Hüffer . In the years 1890-1891 he studied at the seminary in Breslau and was ordained a priest in the Kreuzkirche in Breslau on June 23, 1891 - the solemn Primitz took place on July 2, 1891 in his home town of Groß Strehlitz.

After being ordained a priest, he was appointed a chaplain in Friedland and in 1894 was transferred to Sohrau as a religion teacher . On February 1, 1895, after passing an exam, he was granted permission to teach religion and the Hebrew language in the upper classes of middle school. In the years 1896–1918 he taught as a religion teacher at the municipal grammar school in Neustadt and wrote several articles for the local Neustädter newspaper .

In recognition of his services to the culture and history of this region, he was appointed honorary professor on December 20, 1909 , and on February 17, 1910 , he was promoted to a teaching position . On October 16, 1918, Alfons Nowack became archbishop archives director, museum director and administrator of the library of the Metropolitan Chapter ad Joannum in Breslau. In his publications , he mainly dealt with the history of his Upper Silesian homeland . On September 19, 1923 , he received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on the history of the Catholic parish in Groß Strehlitz up to 1795.

Due to illness, he retired on January 1, 1940 and died on March 13, 1940 in the hospital of the Elisabeth Sisters in Wroclaw.

Publications

• The parish church of St. Philip and James in Sohrau OS. Neustadt 1900.
• The Imperial Count Colonna on Groß-Strehlitz, Tost and Tworog . Gross Strehlitz 1902.
• Lubowitz diary sheets Joseph von Eichendorff . Gross Strehlitz 1907.
• Trips and hikes by the barons Josef and Wilhelm v. Eichendorff (1802-1814). Gross Strehlitz 1907.
• Commemorative script for the solemn Benediction of the cath. Parish church of SS. Trinitatis in Friedland , district of Opole. on November 23, 1909 ... Neustadt 1909.
• Studies on the history of the Neustadt area. Memory of the Wars of Liberation. Neustadt 1909.
• Joseph and Luise v. Eichendorff's last days of life. 1907.
• History of the rural parishes of the Archipresbyterate Sohrau OS. Publishing house of the Upper Silesian History Association, Opole 1912.
• History of the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy in Neustadt OS. Self-published in 1916.
• The parish church of the Most Holy Trinity in Birawa , Cosel OS district . Wroclaw 1920.
• with Georg Rasel ( illustrator ): Franciscan monastery St. Josef im Walde near Neustadt OS. Neustadt 1920.
• Studies on the history of the Neustadt area. The Neustadt area in the Second Silesian War . Neustadt 1921.
• The mountain chapel for Our Lady of Sorrows near Neustadt OS. Neustadt 1924.
• History of the parish Groß Strehlitz OS. Dissertation, Groß Strehlitz 1924.
• Castles and chapels, mountains and forests in the Neustädter and Zuckmantel area. Neustadt 1928.
• Life pictures of Silesian priests, part 1. Breslau 1928. / part 2 . Wroclaw 1939.
• Correspondence between Cardinal Diepenbrock and Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn before and after her conversion . Munich 1931.
• Unprinted letters from and to Cardinal Melchior von Diepenbrock. According to the material available in the Archbishop's Diocesan Archives in Breslau. (with imprimatur of A. Cardinal Bertram Archbishop of Breslau) Breslau 1931.
• Guide to the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum . Wroclaw 1932.
• Prince-Bishop Heinrich Förster and Karl von Holtei . Using unprinted letters from the Archbishop's Diocesan Archives and the State and University Library in Wroclaw. (Imprimatur of the Archbishop's General Vicariate, Blaeschke) Breslau 1932.
• Briven van Conscience to Melchior Baron von Diepenbrock, prinsbisschop van Breslau. Wroclaw 1932.
• Memorial sheets to Cardinal Diepenbrock. Wroclaw 1934.
• Seals by Karl Ignatius Lorinser on his wife who died in Opole on February 26, 1840. Wroclaw 1934.
• The priests of the Cistercian Abbey Rauden OS . 1682-1810. (1856) 106 life sketches based on the pen's handwritten catalog. Wroclaw 1935.
• The sobriety efforts in Upper Silesia until Fietzek intervened in February 1844. Reprint 1936.
• Silesian pilgrimage sites of old and new times in the Archdiocese of Wroclaw. Wroclaw 1937.
• The hermitages in Silesia and the County of Glatz from the Middle Ages to the present day. Wroclaw 1939.

Another 150 articles followed in magazines and newspapers.

literature

• Kurt Engelbert: Alfons Nowack . In: Archive for Silesian Church History (ASKG). 5, 1940, p. 271.
• Josef Pater: Forgotten or hushed up? On the biography of the archive director Alfons Nowack (1868–1940) . In: Archive for Silesian Church History (ASKG). 46, 1988, p. 119.
• Bibliography of Nowack's works . In: Archiwum Archidiecezjalne we Wrocławiu AAWIIIc20 VIb21.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1341.
• Franz Heiduk : Oberschlesisches Literaturlexikon . Volume 2, Mann, Berlin 1990.
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfons Nowack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Alfons Nowack in the bibliographic database WorldCat .