Georgy Ivanovich Fidler ( German: Fiedler ; variant name - Paul (baptized), pseudonym - Reldif-Fidlerski , April 19, 1900 , Moscow - January 8, 1983 , Cormeil-en-Parisis , Paris ) - religious activist; son of Ivan Fidler (elder), brother of Ivan Fidler (younger).
| Georgy Ivanovich Fidler | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | April 19, 1900 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Date of death | January 8, 1983 (82 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire  France |
| Occupation | writer , religious figure |
| Father | Ivan Fidler |
Biography
George Fidler was born in 1900 in Moscow in a Lutheran family of a teacher, the director of a real school named after him , Ivan Fiedler . George volunteered in the First World War . [one]
Fiedler ended up in exile in 1920: he lived in Marseille (department of the Bush du Rhone ), Berlin , Strasbourg , Paris . For some time he studied agronomy in Germany . In 1926, George Ivanovich converted to Orthodoxy , continuing to conduct pastoral work in the Lutheran church . Since 1924 he studied theology in Montpellier, then - in Strasbourg.
In 1929-1932 he was a member of the Masonic Russian Paris box " Northern Lights " No. 523 of the Great Box of France , in which P. A. Bobrinsky was the venerable master [2] .
George Fidler was a member of the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSHD), and also worked as an assistant librarian at the National Library in Paris . In 1952, at the Institute of St. Dionysius (Holy Dionysian Orthodox Theological Institute), he defended his dissertation on the degree of licensed theology ("Prayer as the basis of anthropology") and began teaching at the institute.
Printed under the pseudonym Reldif-Fidlerski. George published the books in Paris: Invitation to the Feast (1961), Esprit et parole (Spirit and Word) (1967), Les quatre murs de l`église invisible (The Four Walls of the Invisible Church) ( 1967). He is the author of several works in French, including L'homme est prière (Man is Prayer) (1951), Le retour de Verbe (Return of the Word) (1952), Sagesse et prophétie ( Wisdom and Prophecy) (1954), Deux Evangiles (Two Gospels) (1956), and others.
In recent years, George Fidler lived in the Russian House (for the elderly) in Cormeilles-en-Parisis . Buried in a local cemetery.
Notes
- β L. Mnukhin, M. Avril, V. Losskaya. Russian abroad in France 1919-2000. - Moscow: Science, 2008-2010. - ISBN 978-5-02-036267-3 .
- β http://www.samisdat.com/5/23/523f-asl.htm