Alois Kayser

Alois Kayser ( born March 29, 1877 in Lupstein, Alsace, † 21 October 1944 Tarik, Truk, Micronesia ) was an Alsatian missionary to Nauru.

Life

He came to the island in 1904 and settled in Ibwenape, a piece of land in what is now Meneng, down. By Alois Kayser spreading the Catholic faith took to Nauru a big boost. He stood in competition with the Protestant missionary to Nauru, Philip Delaporte.

Kayser was sent to Nauru to support the far less successful Catholic priest Frederick Gründl. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was expelled from Nauru. In 1921 he returned with a French passport back to the island where he was initially quite alone on its own. It was called the " hermit of Nauru ". It was not until 1928 he was helped by the Australian Sacred Heart missionary Father Thomas O'Brien. Under his sisters came back in 1936 on the island. There were daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart ( FNDS ). Even today serve their now from the Republic of Kiribati originating sisters not only to the Catholic parish, but to all who turn to them for advice and help.

In 1943 he and his younger brother were allowed to accompany the Pierre Clivaz by the Japanese to Truk ( Chuuk today ) in Micronesia deported Nauruans. There Kayser died on 21 October 1944 in Japanese captivity, after he had been six weeks previously as Clivaz imprisoned for espionage accusations.

Alois Kayser has published alongside his missionary activity, a Nauruan grammar and worked on a Nauruan dictionary, but which has been lost. Still today named after him Kayser College to his work on Nauru.

Works

  • "Book It Dedaro " (1915 ); Mission Catholic, Nauru
  • " Nuwawit testament obuä me Nuwawit testament etimeduw " (1915 ); Biblical story of Dr. J. Schuster, Kayser translated into Nauruan; Westphalian Vereinsdruckerei, Münster
  • " The natives of Nauru ( south sea ) A critical study. " ( 1917/1918 ); Anthropos XII / XII: 313/337
  • "Fun and Sport on Naoero " (1921-1924); Anthropos XIV / XVII: 681/711 and XVIII / XIX: 297/328
  • " Catechism Nea Panän Nuwawit Kereri Nea Catholic e gadauw eow itürin. " (1925 ); William Brooks & Co., Sydney
  • " The Pandanus on Nauru " (1934 ); Anthropos XXIX: 775/791
  • " Book It Detaro " (1934 ); Halstead Printing, Sydney
  • " Fishing for Nauru " (1936 ); Communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna. LXVI: 92/149
  • " Nauru Grammar" (1936 ); 1993 reissued by the German Embassy in Canberra. ISBN 064612854X
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