Antoni Reichenberg (7 June 1825,

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– 23 January 1903,

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) was a Polish priest,

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, and artist. He took care of orphans and the poor in Ternopil.

Biography

In 1848, he participated in the Hungarian Revolution.Reichenberg Antoni / ''Ludwik Grzebień SJ''. Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy 1564—1995. — Warszawa : Wydawnictwo WAM, 2004. — 565 с. — ISBN 83-7097-293-4. Reichenberg studied painting in Budapest and the Munich Academy of Arts, graduating in 1862. During his studies, he was friends with

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. He studied theology in Munich and

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, where he was ordained a priest on 13 September 1868. On 7 December 1869, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Stara Wieś. In 1871, he joined the

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. From 1875 he lived in Ternopil. From 1875 to 1887, he was a professor of drawings at the Jesuit convivium; in 1884–1885 he was prefect of the student hospital, and in 1886 he taught German. He founded two shelters for the poor in the city, where he worked after the liturgy. Every day at 7 p.m. Reichenberg prayed at the figure of St. Tekla on Panska Street in Ternopil. He died on 23 January 1903 in Ternopil. He was buried on 27 January 1903 at the Mykulyntsi cemetery in Ternopil, where the tombstone bears an inscription: "To the guardian of the poor, Antoni Reichenberg T. I., grateful citizens of Ternopil". The grave of Fr. Antoni Reichenberg was declared a newly discovered monument of cultural heritage.Лист Тернопільського обласного центру охорони та наукових досліджень пам'яток культурної спадщини № 326 від 20 жовтня 2021 року

Works

He was a talented artist. Among his works are the image "Our Lady of Sorrows" (kept in Stara Wieś) and a portrait of Alfred Potocki (until 1918 it hung in the hall of the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reichenberg, Antoni 1825 births 1903 deaths People from Gorlice People from Ternopil Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Polish male painters 19th-century Polish Jesuits 20th-century Polish Jesuits Burials at Mykulynetskyi Cemetery (Ternopil)