Pavol Strauss

Pavol Strauss ( born August 30, 1912 in Liptovsky Mikulas, † June 3, 1994 in Nitra ) was a Slovak doctor, philosopher, novelist, essayist and translator.

Life

During the visit of high school in his hometown Strauss actively engaged in the study group by Michal Miloslav Hodža. After leaving school he took up medical studies in Vienna, graduating in 1938 at the German University in Prague from. 1938 and 1939 he completed the one year compulsory military service.

As a physician, Strauss worked in Palúdzka and Ružomberok. In 1942 he converted after two years of internal struggle from the Jewish to the Catholic faith. Before the end of the Second World War he was interned in the transit camp in Nováky. After the liberation he continued working, first as a surgeon in Bratislava, 1946-1956 then as chief physician in Skalica and finally from 1956 to 1982 again as a surgeon at the government hospital in Nitra.

Conversion

His children and study years spent Strauss in his grandfather's house, the doctor Bartolomej Kux, a formed, but more secular Jews. Also under his influence took the young Strauss God increasingly pantheistic true what filled him with fear and uncertainty. After puberty, seized him doubts about the value of the world in which he saw everywhere inequitable social injustice. In several of his fellow Jews, he saw many negative characteristics, but on the other side of him were in Judaism, the Hasidic rabbi a bright spot. In recent high school years he occupied himself with communism, studied works of Franz Mehring, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Georgi Plekhanov and Nikolai Bukharin, was under a strong influence of Surrealism by André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the poeticism and Dadaism. During the Prague student years, he also went through rich cultural experiences, which he, however, in retrospect, as " a patch, a patch for the tattered interior. An outer unrest over the restless sinful heart. A lack of clarity in moral questions, noticed a longing and a great hunger for truth, purity and safety outside the infamous social problems " perceived.

This moving phase, he evaluated later as a first step towards his turning away from Judaism to Christianity. He described this period as a call " to the exit from themselves" and to " a life with the others, a life for the world, especially the world of the future ." The second phase of his conversion began during his military service in Ružomberok, where he was influenced by the family of converts Munk.

This allowed Strauss access to Catholic literature, especially the works of Peter Lippert and Romano Guardini. However, Eager he read Jacques Maritain, David Blondel, Étienne Gilson, Jean Guitton, Rainer Maria Rilke, Giovanni Papini, and Henri Bergson. Whole, however, he could not detach published by the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, André Breton and also some in the magazine " Psyché " attitudes are. In the third phase, he was baptized after him the canons Jozef Kozar had made for over half a year with the New Testament acquainted. Under the guidance of the Jesuit Ján Dieška he took part in a retreat of the Order and led a conversation with Jozef Mikuš, the then Provincial of the Jesuits. He tightened his faith by reading religious texts, especially the persecution of Jesus, on the Orthodox nun Philothea, and the role of the liturgy in the life of the Catholic Church. A kind of spiritual mentor him at the time was his wife Mária, born Loydlová.

As an authentic witness of his life is generally considered the autobiography published in 1994, " Kolíska dôvery ".

Works

For non- translated into German title, the original titles are added literally translated in parentheses.

  • The cannon on the egg, ( poems) 1936.
  • Black verses ( poems) 1937.
  • Všetko per rovnako blízke i ďaleké (Kaleidoscope z cesty po Švajčiarsku ) Everything is equally near and far [ kaleidoscope of a trip through Switzerland ], 1946.
  • Mozaika NADĚJE [ Mosaic of Hope ], Bratislava, 1948.
  • Stĺpy [ columns ], Ružomberok, 1948.
  • Aforistické diary [ diary aphoristic ], Ružomberok, 1960.
  • Križová cesta pre chorych [ Stations of the Cross devotion for the sick ], Ružomberok, 1964.
  • Postila dneška [ Postille of today], Ružomberok, 1965.
  • Zápisky diletanta [Notes of a dilettante ], Bratislava, 1968.
  • Zákruty bez ciest [ curves without roads ], Bratislava, 1971.
  • Roztrhnutá opona [ Torn Curtain ], Ružomberok, 1972.
  • Rekviem za živých [ Requiem for the living ], Bratislava, 1991
  • Nádhera nečakaného. Úsmev nad úsmevom [ The glory of the unexpected. Smile smile ] (ideas and aphorisms ), Bratislava, 1992.
  • Kvety z Popola [Flowers from the ashes ], Martin, 1992.
  • Mozaika NADĚJE [ Mosaic of Hope ] (extended edition ), Bratislava, 1992.
  • Ecce homo, Bratislava, 1992.
  • Tesna brána [ The narrow gate ], Bratislava, 1992.
  • A slovo zdúchal Duch, Bratislava, 1992.
  • Križová cesta ( Mozaika meditácií ) [ Stations of the Cross ( mosaic of meditations ) ], Bratislava, 1993.
  • Za mostom času [ Behind the bridge of time ], Košice, 1993.
  • Kolíska dôvery [Cradle of trust ], Trnava, 1994.
  • Odvrátený hlas. Poznámky ku všetkému ik životu [ The voice is remote. Notes to everything and to life ], Bratislava, 1994.
  • Torzo ticha [Fragment of silence ], Bratislava, 1995.
  • Život je len any [ life is only one ], Bratislava, 1996.
  • Čovek pre nikoho [ man for anybody ], Bratislava, 2000.
  • Sme mocnejší než čas. Apokalyptické tiene [ We are stronger than time. Apocalyptic shadow ], Bratislava, 2005.

Collected Works:

  • Volume 1: S výhľadom do nekonečna [ With views to infinity ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 2: Band of plaší SMRT [Music scared to death ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 3: Rekviem za neumieranie [ Requiem for non- death ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 4: Skalpelom i PEROM [ With scalpel and pen ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 5: Ozveny vnútorných hlasov [ Echoing the inner voices ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 6: Aforistické iskrenie [ aphoristic sparks ], Prešov, 2010.
  • Volume 7: Život [ Life is only a provisional ] per provizórium, Prešov, 2011.
  • Volume 8: Slovenské básne [ Slovak poems ], Prešov, 2011.
  • Volume 9: Nemecké básne [ German poems ], Prešov, 2011.
  • Volume 10: překlady [ translations and correspondence ], Prešov, in 2012.

Publications on Pavol Strauss

  • Rybák, P.: P. Strauss - the fighting bell this time. In: Faith and Life, 1992
  • Bátorová, M.: paradoxes Pavol Strauss, Bratislava, 2006
  • Journal: Letters from Pavol Strauss, Mikuláš, 2007 - 2010, No. 1-9
  • Letz, J.: Slovak Christian philosophy of the 20th century. and its prospects, Krakov / Trnava, 2010, p. 82-86, 96-98, 354
  • WEAG, G.: Strauss - two brothers, 2013, DVD Live AID, 65 min.
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