Dries van Coillie

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Dries Edward van Coillie , CICM (born April 10, 1912 in Roeselare , Belgium , † October 26, 1998 in Leuven , Belgium) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary who became known as the author of an autobiographical book.

Life

In 1958 his book De enthousiaste zelfmoord was published , which was translated into several languages. The German-language edition The enthusiastic suicide. In prison under Mao Tse-tung it was published by Auer Verlag around 1960 ; from 1965 onwards, Herder Verlag ( Herder-Bücherei series , Volume 197) published a shortened paperback edition in several editions.

The following biographical information is detailed in the book, including the blurb, for the most part no confirmation is available through independent sources: Dries van Coillie joined in 1932 as a novice of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (one in Anderlecht -based -Scheut Catholic male order, which the missionary China had made a task). He was ordained a priest in 1938, and the following year he was sent to China, where he initially worked as a teacher. Due to the Second Sino-Japanese War , he was interned in a camp of the Japanese occupiers for 2½ years. He then worked as a missionary in Beijing , which was initially in the Kuomintang- controlled area during the Chinese Civil War , but was captured by the Communist Party in January 1949 . He was the head of the Chinese branch of the Legio Mariae , which was banned by the new communist government. In 1951 he was arrested and subsequently tortured by fellow prisoners as well. He describes this prison term and the attempt at brainwashing in the book. He sees his release in 1954 after 34 months in prison in connection with the Indochina Conference in Geneva; Foreign and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai wanted to create a “favorable atmosphere” there. He immediately returned to Belgium, where he arrived in July 1954. There he wrote the book, since Pope Pius XII. have commissioned "to convey the truth about communism to the widest possible range".

From 1955 Coillie was deputy general secretary in the pavilion of the Holy See at the world exhibition in Brussels . He later helped to write contributions to the Belgian radio program "Flanders sends his sons".

more publishments

  • with Willem A. Grootaers, Proeve eener bibliographie van de Missionarissen van Scheut (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae) , 1939
  • De ongelijke strijd , 1956
  • Beijing - cel 10 , 1957
    • German translation: Beijing - Cell 10: Captivity in Red China , 1963
  • De chinese communist partij en hair leiders , 1962
    • German translation: Red China - the party and its leaders , 1963
  • as editor, with Joep Spitz: China tussen hoop en vrees. Liberalisering, een politiek doel of economisch middel? , 1981, ISBN 90-6184-082-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the homepage of the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
  2. ↑ See: ODIS
  3. ↑ s. P. 16 of the paperback edition
  4. ↑ p. 283f. the paperback edition
  5. ↑ West Flanders. Jaargang 9 , on dbnl.org
  6. ↑ p. 283 of the paperback edition
  7. ↑ http://www.odis.be/hercules/toonPers.php?taalcode=nl&id=5864
personal data
SURNAME Coillie, Dries van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coillie, Dries Edward van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian missionary and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Roeselare
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1998
Place of death Lions