Josef Schwarz (priest)

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Josef Schwarz (born March 9, 1894 in Mölten ; † March 24, 1980 ) was a South Tyrolean Catholic priest and teacher who also worked as a local researcher .

Live and act

Josef Schwarz was born as the seventh of eleven children at Unterwirt in Mölten. At the age of 13, he expressed a desire to become a priest. Since his parents consented, he moved to Bozen to the Johanneum student convict at that time and attended the Franciscan high school there .

When the First World War broke out , he had to finish the eighth year of the course early and was drafted into military service. He was promoted to lieutenant and wounded at Asiago . Black received the bronze medal for bravery.

After the First World War, he attended the Collegium Germanikum and in the following year switched to studying theology and philosophy at the seminary in Brixen . At that time Mölten belonged to the diocese of Trento and the German part of the future theologians of this diocese was housed in Brixen. Josef Schwarz was ordained a priest on June 29, 1922 . For a year he was a cooperator in Rabenstein, today a fraction of the municipality of Moos in Passeier , where he also provided pastoral care for the miners on the Schneeberg .

In October 1923 he went to the Johanneum Student Convict in Bolzano and was prefect there for five years. As a result, he became prefect in the newly founded boys' seminar with school and boarding school in Dorf Tirol , also called Johanneum . During his time as prefect, he trained himself further, mainly in history and art history . In the following years he worked as a professor at this Johanneum in Tirolo for about 40 years.

Josef Schwarz died in March 1980. He was buried on March 24, 1980 in the Mölten cemetery.

Act

Schwarz published articles on local history in various magazines since 1946. Most of the articles appeared in the South Tyrolean monthly journal Der Schlern . In the article The Honorable Curate Siegfried Teßmann and Verschneid , he describes the life and work of the priest and artist Siegfried Teßmann and the district of Verschneid von Mölten.

Fonts

  • A Tschögglberg artist . In: The Sciliar . 1946, p. 374 .
  • A South Tyrolean bishop in Africa (Uganda). Msgr. Johannes Greif from Mölten . In: The Sciliar . 1953, p. 110 .
  • The rifle captains Josef and Alois Schwarz von Mölten. Two men who deserved their home parish 100 years ago . In: The Sciliar . 1953, p. 111-113 .
  • The Tschögglberg . In: Reinmichl's people's calendar . 1955, p. 133 ff .
  • The Reverend Curate Siegfried Teßmann and Verschneid . In: The Sciliar . tape 34 , 1960, pp. 423-425 .
  • School principal Josef Marini. In memory of an old well-deserved schoolboy . In: The Sciliar . 1960, p. 391-393 .
  • Two artists from Feldthurns . In: The Sciliar . 1968, p. 272-279 .
  • The episcopal seminary Johanneum . In: The Sciliar . 1968, p. 404-412 .
  • Sculptor Gustav Gurschner from Mölten . In: The Sciliar . 1970, p. 484-487 .
  • Notes on the history of the Tschögglberg . In: The Sciliar . 1973, p. 367-378 .
  • Langfenn . In: The Sciliar . 1973, p. 654-655 .
  • The Karner picture. The Paul Schuster picture . In: The Sciliar . 1973, p. 438 .

honors and awards

literature

  • Dekanalparre Mölten (Ed.): Chronicle of Mölten . Self-published Dekanalpfarre Mölten, Mölten April 1990 (based on the manuscript by Prof. Josef Schwarz, edited by Richard Furggler and Anton Oberkofler).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of Mölten
personal data
SURNAME Black, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Catholic priest and teacher (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mölten
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1980