Theodor Kremski

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Theodor Kremski (born March 14, 1829 in Tarnowitz , Tarnowitz district , Province of Silesia , † December 22, 1906 in Rybnik ) was a German lawyer and priest. He shaped the Catholic life in Kattowitz and Rybnik and in the rural communities Nieder Schwirklan and Ober Schwirklan in the Rybnik district . (Since 1945 Świerklany in the Powiat Rybnicki ).

Life

Kremski studied at the three after the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III. named universities of law. In 1847 he became active in the Corps Borussia Breslau at the home town of Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . As an inactive , he switched to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . As an auscultator he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He then studied Catholic theology in Breslau . Ordained a priest in 1857 , he came to Bujakau and Opole as a pastor . He preached in German and Polish. In 1860 he was appointed the first parish priest in the up-and-coming industrial city of Katowice . As a good organizer, he built the Marienkirche there as the first large Catholic church. At that time (1866) he developed aphasia . In search of healing he traveled to the Orient . He moved to the convent of nuns of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . According to the church's opinion at the time, a miracle healing occurred in 1872 . In the same year he became a spiritual director at Rybnik St. Julius Hospital. He worked there for 34 years, renouncing all possessions. At the age of 77 he died of a heart attack while bringing comfort to a dying man.

Honors

Marienkirche in Katowice

literature

  • Alfons Nowack : Life pictures of Silesian priests . Otto Borgmeyer, Breslau 1928.
  • Henryk Olszar: KS. dr Teodor Kremski (1829–1906) . Śląskie studia historyczno-teologiczne 46 (2013), pp. 159–167.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nieder Schwirklan district
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 18/379
  3. ^ Dissertation : De jure devolutionis in providendis beneficiis .
  4. ↑ Religious and Church History of Katowice (OME)
  5. ^ List of members of the Corps Borussia Breslau, No. 384
  6. ↑ Szpital św. Juliusza w Rybniku
  7. ↑ Olszar: KS. dr Teodor Kremski (1829–1906)
personal data
SURNAME Kremski, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and priest in Upper Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz , District Tarnowitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1906
Place of death Rybnik , Rybnik district