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Eugene Buechel (''Eugen Büchel''), * October 20, 1874 in ''Schleida'', now Schleid, in Thuringia, Germany, † October 27, 1954 in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, was a Roman Catholic priest and ''missionary'', ''linguist'' and ''anthropologist'' among the Brulé or Sicangu Lakota or Sioux on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and the related Oglala Lakota or Sioux on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. ==Life== He was the tenth and last child of his parents. His father was a farmer whose father and grandfather had been village mayors; several of his relatives had emigrated to America. When Eugen was born, four of his parents’ earlier children had died. In 1881 Eugen's father and in 1882 his mother died. After grade-school (1881–86), he attended the boarding-school for boys of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda (1886–96) followed by three semesters in the Fulda diocesan seminary (1896–97). On October 12, 1897, he entered the noviciate of the German Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), which then was located in Bleijenbeek (Netherlands) due to the expulsion of the Jesuits during the Kulturkampf of the German Reich. After completing this two-years-probation period and further humanistic studies at ''Exaeten'' (Netherlands) he was sent to the United States to continue his studies in July, 1900. From August 1900 to May 1902 Eugen Büchel studied philosophy at the Jesuits' ''Sacred Heart College'' in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. In May 1902 his superiors sent him to ''St. Francis Indian Mission'' in the Rosebud Indian Reservation of the Sicangu or Brulé Lakota in South Dakota. This mission and the ''Holy Rosary Mission'' among the Oglala Lakota in the neighboring Pine Ridge Reservation had been founded in 1886 and 1888, resp., by Jesuits of the German Province with collaboration from the German Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity. From 1902 to 1904 Büchel worked as an educator at the boarding-school and a teacher of religion and music while also studying the Lakota language. In September 1904 he began to study theology at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and on June 28, 1906, he was ordained a priest. After another year of formation (tertianship) in Brooklyn, Ohio, Father Büchel returned to the Lakota in August 1907, first as a teacher at ''Holy Rosary Mission School'' in Pine Ridge, and then in 1908 as its superior for eight years. On December 10, 1909, Father Superior Büchel buried Oglala-Chief Red Cloud in the cemetery of ''Holy Rosary''. Over thirty years earlier, ''Red Cloud'' had demanded "Black Robes" and "Holy Women," i.e. Catholic priests and nuns, for the Oglala from the U.S. authorities. On September 25, 1914, Büchel became an American citizen and changed the spelling of his name to ''Eugene Buechel''. In October 1916 Buechel moved to ''St. Francis'' to become superior there for six years. From 1926 to 1929 he was sent returned to ''Holy Rosary'' as a missionary, and in 1929, Buechel transferred back to ''St. Francis'' again, where he stayed until his death. After suffering a stroke he died at ''St. Anthony’s Hospital'', O'Neill, Nebraska, on October 27, 1954. He lies buried at ''St. Francis''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugene Buechel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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