Wiktor Niemczyk

Memorial plaque in Wroclaw

Wiktor Niemczyk (* 20th November 1898 in Bistrzitz / Cieszyn Silesia ; † 18th November 1980 in Warsaw ) was a Polish Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Academy - Rector .

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Niemczyk was the son of Jan Niemczyk, the headmaster of the Polish elementary school in Bystrzyca and his wife Anna née von Kaleta. After graduating from elementary school, he became a student at the grammar school in Teschen . Then he attended a course at the officers' school in the Austro-Hungarian army. From 1918 he was a soldier in the Polish military and a participant in the Polish-Soviet War (1920). In 1924 he completed a degree in Protestant theology at Warsaw University. From 1924 to 1925 he stayed in Vienna , later he was vicar in Teschen and, after his ordination, pastor in Krakow . In 1932 he received his doctorate in theology. In 1946 he was appointed associate professor . After the theological faculty at Warsaw University was transformed into the Christian Theological Academy , he was appointed the first rector of this institution.

Wiktor Niemczyk was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and was part of the Presidium of the First Christian Peace Conference in 1958 in Prague.

Niemczyk is the author of numerous articles and treatises. He also emerged as a Bible translator of the so-called Warsaw Bible .

Works

• Philosophy of Religion, ChThA, Warsaw 1987
• History of Religion, ChThA, Warsaw 1986

bibliography

• Golec J., Bojda S., Biographical Dictionary of the Teschener Land, Volume 1, Cieszyn 1993, pages 203-204

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