Johannes Brik

Johannes Brik (born September 8, 1899 in Wolfsberg , † October 27, 1982 in Kremsmünster ) was an Austrian Benedictine .

Life

Johannes Brik, who was born on September 8, 1899 in Wolfsberg, began a two-year preparatory education at a grammar school in Vienna in 1911 and continued it in 1913 for six years at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster . From 1919 he studied at the Technical University of Vienna , graduated with a degree in engineering and worked for a Viennese company for the next five years as a designer . On 8 November 1930, he was admitted to the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster, but the following year he went for a four-year theological study, which lasted until 1935, the University of Salzburg , his ordination was held there on June 14 1935th But then he turned to mathematical and geometric studies at the University of Vienna . This lasted until 1939, after which he was chaplain several times during World War II . In the year after the end of the war he became professor of mathematics and descriptive geometry at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster. In 1951 Brik was hired as a lecturer for philosophy at the institute for private tutors in Kremsmünster. He died on October 27, 1982 at the age of 83.

effect

He also worked as a writer, sometimes under the pseudonym "Hans Theodor Brik". The great flood , the land of gold , fortress in space and other things came from him .

literature

Hans Giebisch , Gustav Gugitz : Bio-bibliographical literature dictionary of Austria. From the beginning to the present. Hollinek, Vienna 1964, p. 41.
Ekkart Sauser : Brik, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 205-206. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes Brik in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hans Theodor Brik at Open Library

Individual evidence

↑ The great flood. Steyler Verlags-Buchhandlung, Kaldenkirchen u. a. 1956 (= fresh seeds 62).
↑ The Land of Gold. St. Gabriel Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1955 (= fresh seeds 56).
↑ Fortress in space. The great adventure of the future, told in an extremely captivating manner by a scientist. Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1956 ( The Yellow Stripes Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Brik, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfsberg
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 1982
Place of death	Kremsmünster

[1] The great flood. Steyler Verlags-Buchhandlung, Kaldenkirchen u. a. 1956 (= fresh seeds 62).

[2] The Land of Gold. St. Gabriel Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1955 (= fresh seeds 56).

[3] Fortress in space. The great adventure of the future, told in an extremely captivating manner by a scientist. Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1956 ( The Yellow Stripes Books )