Zygmunt Iwicki

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Zygmunt Iwicki (born April 23, 1930 in Lubiewo , Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland ) is a Polish-Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, educator, art historian and historian.

life and work

The priest in Poland

Iwicki grew up in Lobfelde in the area of Tuchel (in the former West Prussia ). At the age of nine he saw the German invasion of Poland and at the age of 15 the end of the war. From 1946 to 1951 he attended high schools in Gdansk and Poznan . Then he studied theology at the seminary in Allenstein , was ordained a priest in 1956 and worked in various parishes.

The teacher in Switzerland

From 1971 he studied art history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and graduated with a master's degree. He moved to the University of Karlsruhe , where he received his doctorate in 1978. From 1979 to 1995 Iwicki taught at the Kollegium Schwyz canton school and was also active in the Diocesan Museum. He accepted Swiss citizenship. In 1995 he retired. He currently lives in Zurich. He belongs to the Swiss Lieutenancy of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

The historian of Oliva

Since his dissertation, which ascribes the high altar of the Oliva Cathedral to the architect Andreas Schlüter (published in 1980), Iwicki has published (in retirement) numerous books (also in German) about the past and present of the Oliva monastery , the parish of Oliva, his birthplace Lubiewo , as well as to Saint Oliva of Anagni. Side by side with the Gdansk historian Heinz Lingenberg , to whom he dedicated an obituary, Iwicki founded and disseminated today's knowledge about the Cistercian monastery Oliva.

Works

  • The high altar of the cathedral in Oliva. A work by Andreas Schlueter . University publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980. (Dissertation)
  • Oliva. Guide to the cathedral and the former monastery . Laumann, Dülmen 1994.
  • (Ed.) Kronika parafii (katedralnej) w Oliwie 1904–1945 . Gdansk 1999.
    • (German) Chronicle of the parish of Oliva. Started in 1904 . Gdansk 1999.
  • Oliwa wczoraj i dziś . Przewodnik po zabytkach katedry i byłego klasztoru. 2001.
  • Iwiccy z Lubiewa. Scripta manent (pismo przetrwa) . Pelplin 2003.
  • Necropolia oliwska . Fundcja Biblioteki Gdańskiej PAN, Gdansk 2004.
  • Lubiewo wczoraj i dziś (1344-2006) . Pelplin 2007.
  • Konwent Oliwski (1186-1831). Leksykon biograficzny . Pelplin 2010.
  • Święta Oliwa z Anagni. Wprowadzenie jej kultu w Oliwie . Pelplin 2014.
  • (Ed.) Kronika Oliwska od 1945 do 1979 roku . Pelplin 2016.
  • Bedeker oliwski. Oliva antiqua et praesens . Pelplin 2018.

literature

  • Marek Sass: Autobiography. Ważny element edukacji środowiskowej i międzypokoleniowej. Przypadek Zygmunta Iwickiego = Autobiography. An important element of community and intergenerational education. The case of Zygmunt Iwicki. In: Pedagogika Społeczna 16, 2016, pp. 137–154.

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personal data
SURNAME Iwicki, Zygmunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish and Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubiewo