Marcin Dunin Sulgostowski of
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(german: Martin von Dunin) (11 November 1774, in
Wał – 26 December 1842, in
Poznań
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) was
archbishop of Poznań
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and
Gniezno, primate of Poland.
He was the oldest son of common land owners, Felicjan and Brygida née Szczakowska, and grew up under the protection of his uncle, Wacław Szczakowski. His education began in the
Jesuits
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school in
Rawa Mazowiecka
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, which was at that time a community in
Congress Poland
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. He passed
Abitur
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on the German-language
gymnasium in
Bromberg
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(now Bydgoszcz), the historic capital of the Royal
Prussia
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Bromberg district. Between 1793 and 1797, he studied theology in
Rome (Polish Rzym) at the ''
Collegium Germanicum
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''. Upon graduation he was ordained a
priest
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.
After his return to Prussia, he started his ecclesiastical career by serving as a
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in the Prussian communities of
Wiślica (Wislitz) and
Włocławek
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. In 1815, he became chancellor of the
Gniezno (Gnesen) Curia
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. He also held some secular offices – in 1817 he became the royal Prussian counselor for education in
Posen District
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.
Prussian authorities, considering Dunin's loyalty to the King of
Prussia
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, recommended him as a candidate for the
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s of archbishops of Poznań and Gniezno. He was appointed to those offices in 1830 and became bishop one year later. As proof of his loyalty and on demand of the president of
Grand Duchy of Posen
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,
Eduard Flottwell, Dunin wrote a pastoral letter condemning the
November Uprising
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. On the other hand, Dunin got permission for Polish priests to communicate in Polish rather than German.
In 1837, the conflict between Prussian authorities and the archbishop began. Dunin, according to the
breve
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of
Pius VIII
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(1830), announced that all mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants had to take an oath that all their offspring would be raised as Catholics. The Prussian authorities sentenced Dunin to six months of
internment
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and the loss of his archbishopric thrones. His penalty started on April 3, 1839 in Berlin. The archbishop considered the sentence to be an unjustified intervention of secular authority into ecclesiastical law. He left Berlin and went to Poznań, where he was arrested. He was later sent to prison in the stronghold at
Kolberg (Kołobrzeg). After ten months of penalty, the new king
Frederick William IV
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granted his freedom. The monarch, to prevent a possible uprising of the partial Polish majority of the Grand Duchy, decided the dismissal of Flottwell. This was a foretaste of the
Kulturkampf
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.
Dunin held the
Prussia
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Order of the Black Eagle
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.
After his return to Poznań, Dunin swore loyalty to the new king, but he continued his anti-Prussian politics in church until his death. He was buried in the archcathedral of Poznań.
Works
* Wilhelm von Schütz; Martin von Dunin: ''Ueber die preussische Rechtsansicht wegen der gemischten Ehen''. Beigefügtes Werk: ''Nebst Rechtfertigung des Herrn v. Dunin auf die von der königl. Regierung in Berlin durch die Staatszeitung vom 31. Dezember 1838 veröffentlichte Erklärung''. Regensburg: Manz, 1839.
* Martin von Dunin und Franz Pohl: ''Erzbischof von Gnesen und Posen: eine biographische und kirchenhistorische Skizze''. Marienburg: Dormann 1843. Posen: W. Stefański, 1850.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Książka do nabożeństwa z polecenia najprzewielebniejszego śp. arcybiskupa Dunina dla wszystkich katolików szczególniej zaś dla wygody katolików Archidiecezyi Poznańskiéj i Gnieźnieńskiéj''. 2. ed. 1850.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Książka do nabożeństwa dla wszystkich katolików, szczególniéj zaś dla wygody katolików archidyecezyi gnieźnieńskiéj i poznańskiéj / z polecenia najprzewielebniejszego arcybiskupa Dunin ułożone''. Leszno: E. Günther, 1853.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Książka do nabożeństwa dla wszystkich katolików, szczególniéj zaś dla wygody katolików archidyecezyi gnieźnieńskiéj i poznańskiéj z polecenia najprzewielebniejszego X. arcy-biskupa Dunina ułożona, na nowo z rozkazu najprzewielebniejszego arcy-biskupa X. Leona Przyłuskiego przejrzana''. Gnesen: J. B. Lange, 1861.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Książka do nabożeństwa dla wszystkich katolików, szczególniéj zaś dla wygody katolików archidyecezyi gnieźnieńskiéj i poznańskiéj / z polecenia najprzewielebniejszego X. arcy-biskupa Dunina ułożona, na nowo z rozkazu najprzewielebniejszego arcy-biskupa X. Leona Przyłuskiego przejrzana''. Gnesen: J. B. Lange, 1864.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Książka do nabożeństwa dla wszystkich katolików / ułożona podług książki wydanéj z polecenia Najprzewielbniejszego Arcy-biskupa Dunina''. Tschenstochau: Kohn und Oderfeld, 1887.
* Marcin Dunin: ''Nowy pana naszego Jezusa Chrystusa Testament z łacińskiego na język kpolski prezełożony przez Jakóba Wujka''. Posen: Nakł. Ksiegarni Katolickiej, 1888.
References
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Antoni Gąsiorowski
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He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1953) with a degree in ...
,
Jerzy Topolski
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(red.): ''Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny''. Warszawa-Poznań,1983. PWN
* Anton Graf: ''Die Erzbischöfe von Cölln und Posen. Darstellung der welthistorischen Bedeutung der katholischen Frage in Preussen''. Leipzig, Müller 1838.
* Martin von Dunin und Franz Pohl: ''Erzbischof von Gnesen und Posen: eine biographische und kirchenhistorische Skizze''. Marienburg: Dormann 1843. Posen: W. Stefański, 1850.
* Józef Knjaź Walkowski: ''Ważne źródło do historyi arcybiskupa Dunina; Ks. Józefa Walkowskiego Pamiętniki pisane w niewoli kołobrzeskiej''. Wyd. i wstępem poprzedził Ks. Tadeusz Trzcíński. Poznań: Księgarnia Św. Wojciecha, 1908.
* Manfred Laubert: ''Die Wahl Martin von Dunin zum Erzbischof von Gnesen und Posen''. Aus: Jahrbücher für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven; 2.1926, S. 35 - 45.
* Bernhard Stasiewski: ''Martin von Dunin''. In:
Neue Deutsche Biographie
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, Bd. 4, 1959, S. 197 f.
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Archbishops of Gniezno
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