Franz Xaver Biallas

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Franz Xaver Biallas (Polish: Franciszek Ksawery Białas, Chinese: 鲍润生, pinyin Bào Rùnshēng ) SVD (born November 15, 1878 in Schwirz ( Bankwitz parish ), Namslau district , Archdiocese of Breslau , Province of Silesia ; † May 28, 1936 in Beijing , China ) was a China missionary of the Steyler missionaries and sinologist . In 1935 he founded the sinological journal Monumenta Serica at the Catholic Fu-Jen Universityin Beijing. He died of typhus on May 28, 1936 in Beijing.

Training and commitment

On October 28, 1893, Franz Biallas began his high school education at the Mission House Heiligkreuz in Neisse, Silesia. In 1900 he entered the novitiate of the Society of the Divine Word in the St. Gabriel Mission House near Vienna, where he made his first temporary vows in 1901 and his perpetual vows as a member of the SVD in 1904 . On February 24, 1905, Biallas was ordained a priest in the seminary church of St. Gabriel / Mödling near Vienna. The founder of the order, Fr. Arnold Janssen , had appointed the new priest for the China mission, but had to reverse the appointment because he needed teachers for the St. Wendel mission house . P. Wilhelm Schmidt tried to get the talented P. Biallas from Arnold Janssen. Schmidt wanted to train him to be an ethnologist. But Janssen stuck to his decision. Biallas taught at the St. Wendel Missionary School from 1905 to 1910, when he was again appointed to China. Biallas received permission to study Sinology in Leipzig. He completed his studies with a doctorate. During the First World War he became a military chaplain and chaplain for prisoners of war in the camps near Kassel. In 1921 he arrived in Shandong , China. Biallas was one of the first Steyler Fathers to teach at the Catholic Fu Jen University in Beijing. He was made head of the sociology department. In 1933 he founded the sinological journal Monumenta Serica , the first volume of which he was able to edit and publish.

literature

  • Georg Fennrich: The Steyler Fathers Arndt (d. 1962), Biallas (d. 1936) and Schebesta (d. 1967) in the service of ethnology . In: Archives for Silesian Church History , vol. 29 (1971), pp. 256–261.
  • Horst Rzepkowski: Franz Xaver Biallas SVD . In: Johannes Gröger (Ed.): Schlesische Kirche in Lebensbildern , Vol. 6. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992, ISBN 3-7995-7115-9 , pp. 37-41.
  • Miroslav Kollar: A life in conflict: Franz Xaver Biallas SVD (1878–1936). China missionary and sinologist in the light of his correspondence . Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2011, ISBN 978-3-8050-0579-1 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Discussed by: Claudia von Collani in Bibliographia Missionaria , Vol. LXXV (2011), pp. 449-450; Jacques Kuepers in Verbum SVD , vol. 53 (2012), pp. 297-298; Bernhard Fuehrer in Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies , vol. 75 (2012), pp. 426–427; Renata Fu-sheng Franke in Berliner China-Hefte , vol. 40 (2012), pp. 148–150.
personal data
SURNAME Biallas, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION China missionary of the Steyler missionaries and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwirz , Parish Bankwitz , Namslau District , Archdiocese of Breslau , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1936
Place of death Beijing , China