Stefan Augsburger
Stefan Augsburger (also Stefan Rónay-Augsburger ); (* July 10, 1856 in Filipowa , Batschka , Austrian Empire ; † January 19, 1893 in Batsch-Sentiwan , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ) was a poet, Catholic priest, politician and member of the Reichstag in the Hungarian Parliament.
Life
Stefan Augsburger comes from a Danube Swabian family. He was born in Filipowa, one of the most child-rich villages in the Batschka. The former chairman of the German Bishops' Conference , Robert Zollitsch , also comes from the same place. The boy's unusual talent was already noticed in elementary school, so that he received a scholarship for the grammar school in Baja (German: Frankenstadt). He passed his school-leaving examination in Pécs (Fünfkirchen).
After studying theology for a year in Kalocsa (German: Kollotschau ), he moved to the Pazmaneum in Vienna, where he completed his theological studies. After the ordination he was chaplain first in Stanišić (Stanischitz) and then in Sombor . Back in Kalocsa he worked as a professor of the German language. In 1880 he became canon and in 1884 dean .
In 1875 Augsburger got into politics and represented the Hodschag constituency as a member of the Reichstag in the Hungarian Parliament from 1875 to 1884.
As a poet and writer, he found access to German and Hungarian magazines of his time.
In his work The natural Christianity. Augsburger gave aphorisms “a testimony to his innermost convictions, in that plastically beautiful form that is characteristic of all his intellectual products. It is a glaring sidelight on the true inner disposition of the modern-thinking priest. In doing so, he not only revealed the secret of his own breast, but also the secret of all thinking priests in classical sentences. "
Of course, in the opinion of some of his critics, Augsburger went too far in his concept of freedom. He was ahead of his time and proclaimed thoughts that are now common knowledge. His ecclesiastical career was suddenly cut short because of his free-spirited lifestyle. His subsequent appointment as pastor of Batschsentiwan can therefore be viewed as a banishment into ecclesiastical exile.
His motto, which was on a board at the church, has become common property of the Danube-German intellectual history. It reads:
"Not
conquered with a sword, with a ploughshare:
children of peace,
heroes of work"
What is less well known is that Stefan Augsburger also wrote fairy tales and poetry in German, Hungarian and Latin.
Works
- Rocks and waves. Oven plague 1878
- Natural Christianity: Aphorisms. Leipzig 1894
- Poems. Leipzig 1894
bibliography
- Jakob Schuy, Paul Scherer: Ortssippenbuch Batschsentiwan, 1763-1827. Research Community Mittelbatschka, Lappersdorf, 1992.
- Anton Tafferner, Hans Gassmann: Heimatbuch Batschsentiwan: History of a large Danube Swabian community in the Batschka between Danube and Tisza. Hometown community Batschsentiwan, Heidelberg, 1980.
- Hans Gassman, Ernst Jäger: Our beautiful Batschsentiwan. Regensburg 1985.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Augsburger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Schmitt, Leipzig, 1884.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Augsburger, Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rónay-Augsburger, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danube Swabian poet, Catholic priest and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Filipowa , Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1893 |
| Place of death | Batsch-Sentiwan , Serbia |