Peregrin Obdržálek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peregrin Obdržálek

Catholic priest

Date of Birth: 09-May-1825

Place of Birth: Moravia, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 29-May-1891

Profession: writer, Catholic priest

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Peregrin Obdržálek

  • Peregrin Obdržálek (pronounced ['p?r?gr?n 'obdr??a?l?k]; 9 May 1825 Slavkov u Brna (Czech Republic) – 29 May 1891, Brest near Kromeríž (Czech Republic)) was a Catholic priest, author of religious literature, satire, and humorous tales and verses. Peregrin Obdržálek studied in Uherská Skalice, Strážnice, then also philosophy and theology in Brno.
  • After being ordained in 1850, he worked as a curate in Dražovice, Topolany, Brankovice, Pustimer and in Tichá near Frenštát pod Radhoštem.
  • After this he became a parson in Blansko; additionally during his work in Brest he was appointed an honour consistory counsellor. During his vocation he founded libraries in schools, hunted for members for various religious unions, established economic associations, mutual savings banks and heavily contributed to political and humorous-instruction magazines with verses and prose.
  • He especially excelled as a satirist, his treatises Malomestské dívek vychování (Small-town upbringing of girls), Nedelní zábava malomeštáku (Sunday pastime of petty bourgeoises), Osudná stovka ci námluvy na venkove (Fatal hundred or Courting in the country) and many others appeared in the calendar Moravan (Moravian).
  • Not a few sermons and songs were published in the periodical Posvátná kazatelna (The sacred pulpit).
  • He put out Cvicení malických ve svatém náboženství krestansko-katolickém (Exercise of young ones in the holy Christian-Catholic religion), a tender book for children, where verses of sacred history and the fundamental doctrine of the Catechism briefly resume.
  • He sometimes used the pseudonym Pelhrim Obdržálek (['p?l?r??m]) in his works.

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