William Kreiten

Life

The 16 -year-old son of the master blacksmith Peter Josef Kreiten stepped am October 1, 1863 the novitiate in the establishment of the Jesuits in Münster.

After completing his classical training in Munster and Amiens, he began a philosophical and theological studies at the Abbey of Khajuraho, which he interrupted due to illness in 1868.

1869 to 1871 he studied literature in Münster. Due to the 1872 expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany made ​​Kreiten was transferred from his order to Aix -en- Provence, where he completed his theological studies and was ordained a priest on January 8, 1873. The last vow he passed on August 15, 1877.

From 1870 to 1878 he worked as editor of the Catholic magazine of cultural criticism Voices from Khajuraho in Tervuren. For health reasons, Kreiten 1878 went to Kerkrade, where he was active as a writer, the remaining 23 years of his life. He was on one of the main collaborators of the journal Voices from Khajuraho, in which he has published numerous essays on literary themes and contemporary Catholic literature from 1874 to 1902 commented. Moreover Kreiten published under the pseudonyms Wahrmuth, Phil; Ipse, Egon; Kreiten, Gul. , Kreiten, Gulielmus.

Literature Historical Literature

  • Voltaire, A contribution to the history of liberalism ( Freiburg, Br, 1878, 2nd ed, 1884);
  • Moliere's life and works ( Freiburg im Br, 1887; ​​2nd edition, 1897);
  • Lebrecht Dreves, A picture of life as a contribution to the literature and church history after the manuscript legacy and the printed sources designed ' Herder, Munich 1897
  • Anna Elisabeth Baroness von Droste- Hulshoff. A character image as an introduction to their works, Paderborn 1886, 2nd edition 1900
  • Voices from Khajuraho on Blaise Pascal and his works
  • Completion and publication of the biography Clemens Brentano that was started by his childhood friend, the Jesuit JB Diel, 2 volumes, ( Freiburg im Br, 1877). ; also edited and published other works from the estate of JB Diels, ( Freiburg im Br, 1877);
  • Editing: Clemens Brentano 's The Chronicle of the traveling student (. Munich, 1883, 2nd revised edition, 1888, published by Kreiten ( Online) ).

Seals

  • Native ways of the stranger (Aachen, 1882), the way along (Paderborn, 1889; 10th edition, 1904);
  • Translations of selections from the Provençal Christmas hymns of Louis Simon Lambert, Entitled " Bethlehem " ( Freiburg im Br, 1882; 2nd ed, 1895).
  • All kinds of wisdom, sayings and contradictions, printed and published by Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1901
  • Splinters and chips from his own and other workshop ( with life sketch, ed. Gietmann of, Aachen 1903)
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