Ernst Schnydrig

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Ernst Schnydrig MS (born September 26, 1912 in Grächen / Wallis , Switzerland ; † April 15, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic religious priest , journalist and writer .

Life

After primary school in Visp , Ernst Schnydrig graduated from the Salettin mission school in Mörschwil . From 1925 to 1932 he studied philosophy , Catholic theology and art history at the University of Freiburg im Uechtland and then joined the order of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette . In 1938 he celebrated Primiz in his home parish.

Until 1946 he was a grammar school teacher in St. Gallen , after which he provided post-war aid in Germany for Caritas Switzerland . He could be heard on the radio with programs like The Consoling Message ( Südwestfunk ) or the Word for Sunday . Since 1952 he has been responsible for the advertising and journalism department in the German Caritas Association in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Together with a doctor from Palestine and a Swiss nurse, he founded the Bethlehem Children's Hospital (English: Caritas Baby Hospital ) in Bethlehem in 1952 . To secure this children's clinic in the long term , he also founded Children's Aid Bethlehem in Europe.

In 1965 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Rome on June 2, 1965 .

Fonts (selection)

  • A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , text and photographs by Ernst Schnydrig, children's drawings from an international competition organized by Caritas, Verlag des Borromäus-Verein Bonn, 1962
  • Why, why weren't you Susja? ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1972, ISBN 3-7820-0266-0
  • Night of shepherds, lambs and stars ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1973, ISBN 3-7820-0291-1
  • Daily rations ; Sankt-Benno, Leipzig 1975, no ISBN
  • Dear half jumping jack ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1975, ISBN 3-7820-0347-0
  • To read behind a large stone during the holidays ... ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1976, ISBN 3-7820-0372-1
  • Such good eyes to Zacchaeus ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1977, ISBN 3-7820-0395-0
  • Do we want to play the Chinese emperor? ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1978, ISBN 3-7820-0412-4 .
  • Three grains of excess: to read during the holidays and elsewhere ; Sankt-Benno, Leipzig 1982, no ISBN
  • Three lessons about the hedgehog: stories of humans and animals ; Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1985, ISBN 3-7820-0515-5

literature

  • Klaus Röllin: The heart must have hands, Pater / Father Ernst Schnydrig MS 1912–1978 (German, English); DZA, Altenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936300-77-2
  • Joseph Scheu: Schnydrig, Ernst , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 529

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Schnydrig's biography in wikiwallis , accessed on November 20, 2012
  2. ↑ kipa (Catholic international press agency) ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 40 kB), dated August 11, 2008; Retrieved November 20, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath.ch
  3. ↑ Only One World: Politically and religiously independent association, Grächen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved November 20, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlyoneworld.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Schnydrig, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnydrig, Ernst MS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, writer and Roman Catholic religious priest
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Grächen , Valais , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1978
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau