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Krystijan Bogumił Šwjela (also spelled "Schwela" and "Schwele") (5 September 1873 in Schorbus, Drebkau – 20 May 1948 in Naumburg) was a Wendish/Sorbian Protestant clergyman and ethnic activist in the Lower Lusatia region. He also acted as a linguist and journalist, was chairman of the Maśica Serbska organization and co-founder of the Sorbian umbrella organization Domowina in 1912. Šwjela advocated the preservation of Sorbian language and culture in Lower Lusatia.
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Sources Gerat Hančka: Šwjela, Bogumił. W: Jan Šołta, Pětr Kunze, Franc Šěn (wud.): Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1984, str. 556slsl.
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Krystijan Bogumił Šwjela (also spelled "Schwela" and "Schwele") (5 September 1873 in Schorbus, Drebkau – 20 May 1948 in Naumburg) was a Wendish/Sorbian Protestant clergyman and ethnic activist in the Lower Lusatia region. He also acted as a linguist and journalist, was chairman of the Maśica Serbska organization and co-founder of the Sorbian umbrella organization Domowina in 1912. Šwjela advocated the preservation of Sorbian language and culture in Lower Lusatia.
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Life Šwjela was born to Kito Šwjela (1836–1922), an editor of the Lower Sorbian newspaper Bramborski Serbski casnik since 1864. Before attending Lower Sorbian Gymnasium Cottbus, Šwjela was schooled by his father. Šwjela in 1898 completed his studies in Lutheran theology and Slavistics in Leipzig, Halle, and Berlin in 1898. While studying, he became a member of Maśica Serbska. After graduation, he sought for a pastoral position in Lower Lusatia. Beginning in 1904, he was curate at the Wendish church in Cottbus, where he preached regularly in Lower Sorbian, rather than in German. His ordination took place at a time when the oppression of Sorbian language and culture by the Prussian authorities peaked. Education in Sorbian at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cottbus was stopped in 1888 and later religious instruction in the language was also stopped. The older Sorbian intellectuals were initially paralyzed. Šwjela, of the nationally conscious young Sorbian movement, was motivated strongly to work for the cultural interests of the Sorbs. Things came to a head in the Cottbus parish where he continued to minister in Sorbian. In 1908, Swjela had to leave the city because he had refused to hold sermons in German only. He was then several…
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Works Lehrbuch der niederwendischen Sprache. Teil 1: Grammatik. Heidelberg 1906; Teil 2: Übungsbuch. Cottbus 1911. Kurzes Lehrbuch der Oberwendischen Sprache. Bautzen 1913. Evangelska wera mjes Sslowjanami. Bautzen 1915. Vergleichende Grammatik der ober- und niedersorbischen Sprache. Bautzen 1926. Das Wendentum in der Niederlausitz und im Spreewald. Bautzen 1929. Serbske praeposicyje. Pó hugronach z ludowych hust hobźěłane a zestajane. In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje. 1933/34. Deutsch-niedersorbisches Taschenwörterbuch. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1953. Die Flurnamen des Kreises Cottbus. (= Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Slawistik. Band 17). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958.