Peter Lorson
Peter Lorson (born October 19, 1897 in Differten , † May 6, 1954 in Saarbrücken ) was a Roman Catholic; Franco-German theologian, Jesuit , writer and an early proponent of European unification.
Life
Lorson, son of a miner, entered the Jesuit order in Belgium in 1915 . His novitiate took him to Antoing in West Belgium . Nevertheless, he was drafted into German military service, but deserted in 1918 for reasons of conscience. He took French citizenship and studied literature. He taught rhetoric in France and Belgium . From 1933 he worked as a cathedral preacher at the Strasbourg Cathedral .
His first major publication was in 1936 Voyage en Chrétienté , for which he received a prize from the Académie Française . A number of other works on theological, church history and political topics followed. In 1939 he dealt critically with National Socialism in Le Chrétien devant le racisme .
During the German occupation of France, he fled to the "free zone" on the French Mediterranean coast. After the end of the war he returned to Strasbourg. Lorson actively campaigned for European unification. According to Lorson's ideas, the European idea should find a crystallization nucleus in the Saarland as a separate state. Peter Lorson's early death in Saarbrücken on May 6, 1954 saved him from having to experience the failure of his expectations, because in the referendum of October 23, 1955, the majority of the Saarlanders with voting rights rejected the agreement on the Europeanization of the Saarland within the framework of the Western European Union . Peter Lorson was buried in the family grave in Differten.
Works (selection)
- Voyages en chrétienté, Première série: Angleterre, Pologne, Suisse, Allemagne, Colmar, Paris 1936.
- Le Chrétien devant le racisme, Colmar, Paris 1939. (under the pseudonym Lucien Valdor)
- La Révolution des cœurs, renouveau avec Notre-Dame, Colmar, Paris, 1942; nouvelle édition, adaptée aux circonstances 1946.
- La Symphonie pacifique: la paix individual, national, international, Strasbourg, Paris 1948.
- Un chrétien peut-il être objecteur de conscience, Paris 1950. (In German: Conscription and Christian conscience, translation: Kaspar Mayr, Frankfurt am Main 1952).
- De la vieille à la nouvelle Europe, Préface du Président Robert Schuman, Paris 1953. (Under the pseudonym René Baltus)
literature
- Peter Burg: Peter / Pierre Lorson. Saar French. Paulinus Verlag, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-7902-0230-4 .
- Father Lorson: border countries, cathedral preacher, European, 1897–1954 / René Baltus, ed. from the Pater-Lorson-Gesellschaft eV, Blieskastel 2004.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Rubric about Peter Lorson on the website of Peter Burg
- Literature on Peter Lorson in the Saarland Bibliography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lorson, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lorson, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French religious, Catholic theologian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Differten |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1954 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |