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Włodzimierz Ledóchowski ( Loosdorf, 7 ottobre 1866 – Roma, 13 dicembre 1942) è stato un gesuita polacco, Preposito Generale dell'ordine dall'11 febbraio 1915 alla morte.
- Loosdorf
- St. Pölten
- Polish Patriotism
- The Imperial Medal and Lipnica Murowana
- Tarnów Seminary
- Early Career
- Superior General of The Jesuits
- Jesuit Achievements Under Wladimir Ledóchowski
- Support For Poland
- Death in Rome
Wladimir (pronounced "Vladimir") Dionysius (Włodzimierz Dionizy) Ledóchowski was born in Loosdorf, Austria, about 80 kilometres West of Vienna, on 7th October 1866. He was the third child of Antoni Ledóchowski and his second wife Józefina née Salis-Zizers, who was Swiss-Austrian and whose story is told in a separate article. They instilled in all s...
In 1873, when Wladimir was seven, his father lost a major investment in an Austrian bank which failed (2, p10). He sold Loosdorf and the family moved a little closer to Vienna, to St. Pölten, where the eldest girls could go to a school run by the Loreto Sisters, or the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Wladimir could go to primary school.
The children grew up under a portrait of their one-legged grandfather, an earlier General Ignacy, in the living room (3, p10), listening to their father tell stories about the General’s heroic defence of Modlin, and about their great aunt Maria Rozalia’s defence of the Catholic Church in the Russian partition, for which she was interned and eventua...
In 1879 the eldest child, Maria Teresa, accompanied her father on a trip to Poland. The warmth of their relatives convinced Antoni that they should consider moving there. The move to Lipnica Murowana, in Galicia, the Austrian partition of Poland, took place in 1883, encouraged and partly financed by the Cardinal as described elsewhere. Wladimir, wh...
The death of their father was a great shock for the teenage children, and the eldest three shortly left home. Wladimir, who had spent a year at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków studying law (4), changed his vocation and in October 1885 entered the seminary in Tarnów. In November his eldest sister Maria Teresa left to become Lady-in-Waiting at ...
Wladimir’s career then proceeded quite quickly: ● In 1887, persuaded and supported by his uncle Cardinal Mieczysław, he went to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, which he completed with a doctorate in 1889. While there he decided to join the Jesuits. ● In 1889 Wladimir returned and entered the Jesuit Novitiate (training college) at Stara...
On 11th February 1915, after the death of Wernz (and Pope Pius X) the previous year, the 48 year old Wladimir Ledóchowski was elected Superior General at the second vote of a congregation of Jesuits in Rome, and continued at this post until his death 28 years later. Like some other Superior Generals, he was known as the „Black Pope”, perhaps becaus...
Wladimir was the fourth longest in his post. Mieczysław Ledóchowski's book (1), and obituaries in e.g. theNew York Times ("NY Times",4), London Times (10) and Die Weltwoche, Zurich (21), describe the achievements of the Jesuit order and Wladimir during his period as Superior General in great detail. For example: ● He reformed and published new vers...
Whereas Wladimir was born, bred and educated in the best German in Austria during the first 18 years of his life, for the next 20 years he was based in Poland, strengthening his feelings for that country. These feelings continued after he took up his post in Rome. ● On 26th October 1918 he wrote to Jesuit leaders in Kraków joyfully welcoming the in...
Wladimir Ledóchowski died aged 76 in Rome in the middle of the Second World War, on 13th December 1942, when the Nazi Axis Alliance of Germany, Austria, Japan and Italy was at its peak, and was buried in Campo Verano cemetery. He lived in a period of dramatic changes. He was born and brought up in the feudal world of Imperial Austria, then spent ov...
Ledóchowski, Włodzimierz Enciclopedia on line Gesuita polacco (Loosdorf, Austria Inf., 1860 - Città del Vaticano 1942); dopo aver ricoperto varie cariche nell'ordine, ne fu eletto generale nel 1915.
Wladimir Ledóchowski fought in the artillery against the German invasion of Poland in 1939; in the siege of Warsaw; as a courier for the Polish Resistance; as an artillery officer in the defence of Tobruk in North Africa in 1941, where he was wounded; and as an intelligence officer until the end of the Second World War, when he was First ...
LEDÓCHOWSKI, Włodzimierz. Paolo BREZZI. Gesuita, nato il 7 ottobre 1866 a Loosdorf (Austria Inferiore) da illustre famiglia polacca; morto nella Città del Vaticano il 13 dicembre 1942. Studiò leggi a Vienna, quindi entrò in seminario e poi nella Compagnia di Gesù.
Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski SJ (fr: Vladimir, de: Vlodimir; 7 October 1866 – 13 December 1942) was a Polish Catholic priest who served as the 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus from 11 February 1915 until his death in 1942. Prior to taking holy orders, he was briefly a page in the Habsburg Court. [1] Early life.
21 dic 2018 · Full Text. Metadata. Keywords: Communism; Bolshevism; anti-Semitism; Jesuit superior general; Włodzimierz Ledóchowski; Divini redemptoris. Father Włodzimierz Ledóchowski (1866–1942), elected twenty-sixth superior general of the Jesuits on February 11, 1915, was undoubtedly a key, and controversial, figure in the modern history ...
