Ernst Korchak
Ernst Kortschak (born January 14, 1879 in Graz ; † November 8, 1957 in Judendorf-Straßengel ) was an Austrian Cistercian abbot .
Life
Kortschak came from a former Polish family of musicians. After graduating from high school, he entered the Rein monastery and became a priest in 1902. In 1906 he received his doctorate in theology. In the years that followed, he was a temporary priest and novice master, and he belonged to the group that dismissed Abbot Franz Sales Bauer and then took over the pastor's position in Übelbach . At the same time he was director of the Institute for the Blind in Graz, also as abbot, to which he was elected in 1931.
Despite his emphatically national and Nazi-friendly sentiments, he could not prevent the abolition and confiscation of the monastery by the National Socialists in 1941. After the war, because of his political stance in 1938, he was forced to resign. He took over the pilgrimage pastoral care in Maria Straßengel , where he died in 1957.
literature
- Stift Rein (1129–1979), Rein 1979, p. 60
Web links
- Ernst Kortschak in Biographia Cisterciensis , version of December 22, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korchak, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Cistercian abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1957 |
| Place of death | Judendorf street angel |