Johannes B. Torelló
John Baptist Torelló ( there : Juan Bautista Torelló y Barenys , it : Giambattista Torello ) (* 7. November 1920 in Barcelona , † 15. August 2011 in Vienna ) was a from Spain originating Austrian cleric and a Roman Catholic theologian and neurologist and psychiatrist .
Life
Johannes B. Torelló came from a family with five children; the eldest sister married and had nine children, his two brothers were Jesuits , the youngest sister the prioress of the Discalced Carmelites in the monastery of Pedralbes . He studied at the end of the Spanish Civil War Medicine in Barcelona and Madrid, where he met a work in psychology to MD PhD was. He became a specialist in neurology and psychiatry . After getting to know Josemaría Escrivá in 1941, he joined Opus Dei . During his medical studies, he was involved in the underground group "L'Estudi", which consists of poets, intellectuals, painters, actors and artists - including Ramón Aramón i Serra , Salvador Espriu and Josep Lleonard i Maragall - who promote the forbidden Catalan culture and language used. Escrivá enabled him to study for a doctorate at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, where he was awarded a doctorate theologiae . He was ordained a priest on June 6, 1948 and worked as a priest for Opus Dei in Sicily from 1949 ; In 1956 he moved to Zurich . Josemaría Escrivá entrusted him in 1958 with the direction of the regional vicariate Opus Dei in Italy and from 1964 in Austria .
In addition to the work of the regional vicar of Opus Dei in Austria, he was appointed church rector of St. Peter's Church in Vienna by Archbishop Franz Cardinal König . In 1989 he was appointed prelate by Pope John Paul II. In 1995 he handed over the office to Werner Litzka .
Johannes Torelló taught psychology as a guest lecturer at the Universities of Palermo and Milan , was professor in Convitto Ecclesiastico and in the College of Social Services in Palermo and also taught at the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Cristoforo Marzoli" in Palazzolo sull'Oglio (Brescia) . From 2000 he was Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross during the summer semesters . He has published numerous articles and books, including well-known works such as "Psychology and Confession", "On the Spirituality of the Laity" and "Loved by God first". His Catalan poems were included in the anthologies on Catalan culture ("Les mil millors poesies de la llengua catalana").
Torelló was close friends with Franz Cardinal König , the Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk and his wife Dagmar Koller , the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl and the head of the Vienna Caritas Leopold Ungar . He died at his place of residence, the old parsonage of the Rectorate Church of St. Peter in downtown Vienna, and was buried at the Ottakringer Friedhof .
Works
- Celibacy and Personality , 1974, ISBN 978-3920007090
- Renewing the World , 1974, ISBN 978-3920007151
- Education and Virtue , 1979, ISBN 978-3920007526
- Basic values of education , Adamas 1980, ISBN 978-3920007557 , together with Fernando Inciarte and Manfred Spieker
- Sexuality and Person , Adamas 1989, ISBN 978-3925746383
- Personal education , Adamas 1990, ISBN 978-3925746406 , together with Bruno Hamann and Gerard JM van den Aardweg
- Sexuality, love and devotion , Verl. Kultur in die Familie Linz 1992, ISBN 978-3900891121
- Everyday Psychology. Models for Life , 1993, ISBN 978-3900891190
- Psychoanalysis and confession , Fassbaender Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3900538828
- Loved by God first: contemplations on contemplation , Fassbaender Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3900538910
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes B. Torelló in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Johannes B. Torelló in the catalog of the Austrian National Library
- Bibliography by Johannes B. Torelló
- Johannes B. Torelló: "SOBRE EL SENTIDO ÚLTIMO DE LA VIDA EN LA FIDES ET RATIO" ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 84 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Johannes Baptist Torelló, in funeral: Torello, Johannes B. * November 7th, 1920, 3:00 p.m. Ottakring cemetery, funeral dates Vienna Net Austria ( Memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Psychology of Everyday Life (23): Simplicity" , accessed on August 22, 2011
- ↑ Johannes B. Torelló died on August 15, 2011
- ↑ Sant Josepmaria i els inicis de l'Opus Dei a Catalunya in el butlletó, Agrupació d'Antics Alumnes de Bell-Lloc, Girona 2003.
- ↑ a b "Vienna: Prelate Torello '90" ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Archdiocese of Vienna , November 13, 2010
- ↑ JB Torelló, Psicología y vida espiritual , ISBN 978-84-321-3690-0 , Rialp, Second Edition, Madrid 2010
- ↑ a b "Vienna: Prelate Torello died" , katweb.at, August 16, 2011
- ↑ "Prelate Johannes Torello died" , Archdiocese of Vienna , August 16, 2011
- ↑ PUSC - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ( Memento of February 23, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Viktor Frankl, Vita e opere del fondatore della logoterapia , ed .: Paola Giovetti, Edizioni Mediterranee, Milano 2001, page 90
- ^ "Johannes B. Torelló died on August 15, 2011" , Opus Dei Nachrichten , August 15, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torelló, Johannes B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torelló, Johannes Baptist (full name); Barenys, Juan Bautista Torelló y; Torello, Gianbattista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish-Austrian clergyman and Roman Catholic theologian, specialist in psychiatry and neurology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 2011 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |