Armand Thiéry

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Armand Auguste Ferdinand Thiéry (born August 6, 1868 in Gentbrugge , East Flanders , Belgium , † January 12, 1955 in Leuven ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest , theologian , psychologist , engineer and professor .

Life

From 1886 he studied law as well as physics and mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven and received his doctorate in law as well as physics and mathematics . On the advice of Désiré-Joseph Mercier , Thiéry studied experimental psychology from 1892 at the University of Bonn and from 1893 with Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig . In Bonn he became a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Bavaria Bonn in the CV on May 15, 1892 . In 1896 he was the founder of KAV Lovania Löwen .

Damian de Veuster and Armand Thiéry

In 1895 he returned to Leuven and became a professor at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Leuven ( Leo XIII Seminar ), which was founded in 1895 by Cardinal Mercier. He became a recognized expert on Thomism . For his scientific work he and his professor colleague Simon Deploige received an honorary doctorate. In 1897 and 1900, Thiéry was in private audience with Pope Leo XIII. receive. Armand Thiéry was ordained a priest on December 31, 1896 .

In 1895 he also received a reputation as a professor, from 1895 to 1914 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Louvain and taught on experimental psychology. From 1909 he was assisted by Albert Michotte , who also succeeded him after his retirement in 1939 and founded the Löwener Schule .

He was involved in philosophical student circles. Since 1895 he was a member of the Philosophical Society of Leuven.

During the First World War , Thiéry was able to save part of the historic city center of Leuven from arson as a result of German retaliation. During the Second World War , the retired university professor, mystic and religious priest Thiéry saved the lives of several Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution by helping them to hide and flee. He also hid Jews in his monastery in Heverlee near Leuven . For saving Jewish life, at the instigation of the Jewess Grunia Schicharewitch, whom he rescued, he was posthumously awarded the “ Righteous Among the Nations ” award by Jad waSchem and the State of Israel in 1980 .

Fonts

  • Instantanés d'Italie , Société Belge de librairie, Brussels, 1892
  • with Paul Verlaine: Conference de Paul Verlaine aux XX , Société belge de librairie, Brussels, 1893
  • Ernest Hello , Société Belge de librairie, Brussels, 1895
  • Introduction à la psycho-physiologie: leçon d'ouverture du cours de psycho-physiologie , Polleunis et Ceuterick, Leuven, 1895
  • Choses universitaires: les chansons d'étudiants dans les universités allemandes , Siffer Gent 1896
  • About geometrical-optical illusions. Part 2. , Engelmann Leipzig 1896
  • Les beaux arts et la philosophie: d'Aristote et de saint Thomas , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1896
  • Lourdes , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1897
  • Le sermon sur la montagne et le socialisme contemporain , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1897
  • La vue et les couleurs: quelques observations en réponse à M. Hallez , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1897
  • Psychologie naturelle , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1900
  • Chansonnier des étudiants Belges publié par la Student Union Lovania , Breitkopf et Härtel, Brussels 1901
  • Le tonal de la parole, Institut supérieur de philosophie , Leuven 1901
  • Cours de physique expérimentale , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1905–1917
  • La tour de l'église Saint-Rombaut à Malines: le plan et la maquette: discussion du projet d'achèvement , Nova et Vetera, Leuven, 1909
  • Une copie du suaire du Turin exécutée en 1516 et actuellement dans les archives de l'église Saint-Gommaire à Lierre , Nova et Vetera, Leuven, 1909
  • with Constantin Meunier and Emile van Dievoet : Exposition de l'oeuvre de Constantin Meunier , Université Catholique de Louvain, Leuven, 1909
  • with Louise Lateau de Bois-d'Haine: A propos du livre publié par le Père Lejeune sous le titre La vie du Père Huchant , Demarteau, Liége, 1914
  • Nouvelle biography de Louise Lateau d'après les documents authentiques , Nova et Vetera, Leuven, 1915–1921
  • with Columba Marmion : La méditation liturgique de l'évangile intégral des dimanches et fêtes , Nova et Vetera, Leuven, 1917
  • La stigmatisée belge Louise Lateau de Bois-d'Haine: histoire abrégée d'après ses biographes , Nova et Vetera, Leuven, 1920
  • Aristotle, Commentaire du traité De l'âme d'Aristote: traduction française du texte latin de Saint Thomas d'Aquin , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1923
  • with Dionysius Areopagita: Traité des noms divins , Institut supérieur de philosophie, Leuven, 1926

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yad Vashem yadvashem.org
  2. ↑ Mordecai Paldiel : Churches and the Holocaust: unholy teaching, good Samaritans, and Reconciliation , Ktav Publishing House, 2006, pp 143-145.
  3. ↑ Mikhman, Dan, Gutman, Israel & Bender, Sarah, The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: Belgium , volume 2, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Thiéry, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiéry, Armand Auguste Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Gentbrugge , East Flanders, Belgium
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1955
Place of death Lions