Josef Wicki

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Josef Wicki SJ (born June 30, 1904 in Zurich ; † February 17, 1993 in Feldkirch ) was a Swiss Jesuit and church and mission historian .

Life

Josef Wicki was the son of Franz Wicki and his wife Rosa, geb. Widower.

In 1922 he entered the Jesuit order in Tisis near Feldkirch and studied philosophy at the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach , then he studied theology at the University of Barcelona and the University of Innsbruck ; in Rome , he graduated as Dr. theol.

From 1935 to 1988 he worked at the Historical Institute of the Jesuit Order in Rome and in 1988 returned to the Jesuit Order in Tisis.

Josef Wicki mainly dealt with the history of the Jesuit mission in India in the 16th century, about which he published the eighteen-volume Documenta Indica , which he wrote between 1948 and 1988; he was considered the old master of mission history .

Memberships

Josef Wicki was a member of various historical academies.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Confreres of Francis Xavier in India: Method of their Gentile Conversion and Instruction of Christians (1545-1552) . Beckenried 1947.
  • Documenta Indica . Institutum Historicum, 1948–1988.
  • Excerpts from the letters of the Jesuit generals to the superiors in India 1549–1613 . Institutum Historicum, 1953.
  • The Jubilee of 1550 in the overseas Jesuit missions (India, Brazil, Africa) . Institutum Historicum, 1956.
  • List of Jesuit Indians: 1541–1758 . Munster Aschendorff 1967.
  • The beginnings of the mission procuration of the Jesuits in Lisbon until 1580 . Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu, 1971.
  • The Jesuit School System in Portuguese India 1599 to 1759 . 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Wicki, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wicki, Joseph; Wicki, José; Wicki, Josephus; Wicki, Josephus; Wicki, Jos .; Wicki, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jesuit and mission historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1993
Place of death Feldkirch