Stefan Geosits
Austrian Roman Catholic priest and historian (1927–2022)
Stefan Geosits (Croatian: Štefan Geošić, Hungarian: Geosits István; 27 August 1927 – 20 June 2022) was a Burgenland Croatian Catholic priest in Austria, who worked as a lay theatre manager and director, translator, writer and historian.
Life
Geosits was born in Szentpéterfa, Vas County, Hungary. In his birthplace he finished elementary school. He completed studies in Szombathely and Vienna in 1952, and then was chaplain of Croatian settlements in Nikitsch, Parndorf and Kroatisch Minihof, all in Burgenland. From 1955, he studied further in Rome and Jerusalem.
Since 1958 Geosits was the parish priest in Klingenbach. He built a parish hall, and expanded the cemetery with a new chapel, consecrated in 1967. He initiated a new church building in 1972, heading for a consecration in 1976, when the parish celebrated its 700th jubilee. The project caused controversy, but the new building, with the old tower retained, was consecrated in 1976.
In Klingenbach, he also immediately founded and headed an amateur Croatian theater group in 1958, translating plays and directing productions.
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