Fenrych Władysław (1927–2002)

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Krzysztof Pilarczyk
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.8

Graduate of chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1952), long-time employee of the Haematology Clinic of the Medical Academy in Poznań (1957–1984), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy for Medical Analytics (1993–1996). He held scientific internships at the Oklahoma Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, USA (1967–1968) and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague (1971). Member of the Polish Biochemical Society.

Fascinated by the history of the Shroud of Turin, he was one of the few Polish members of syndonological societies in Turin, Rome and the USA. He collaborated with →Stanisław Waliszewski. In the field of sindonology, they cooperated within the framework of the Cracow Syndonological Study. Władysław Fenrych distinguished himself as an expert on the Shroud, especially in the area of related haematological research. Stanislaw Waliszewski invited him to collaborate on the book The Turin Shroud Today, entrusting him with the preparation of the chapter on blood traces on the Shroud. Fenrych Władysław also wrote a polemic in defence of the authenticity of the Shroud, appended to the third, supplemented edition of the same book (1993), in which he showed that the research on the dating of the Shroud carried out in 1988 in three centres (Tucson, Oxford and Zurich) was incompatible with scientific methodology and that the verdict given by the researchers was unjustified. W. Fenrych not only published, but also participated in symposiums both nationally (e.g. in 1991 in Łódź, organised by Bishop Adam Lepa) and internationally (1993—Rome; 1998—Turin; 2000—Orvieto). He maintained scientific contacts with American sindonologists associated with the Shroud of Turin Research Project (→STURP). In 2000, he organised a meeting at the Poznan Scientific Society with the well-known Italian sindonologist Emanuela Marinelli, whose book The Shroud. An “impossible” image? was published in Polish translation by Waldemar Polczyk in Wrocław (1999). As late as 2001, a year before his death, he reported in Poland on the results of the world syndonological congress in Dallas.

References

Pilarczyk K., Polska bibliografia syndonologiczna (1900-2020), [in:] idem, Studia z biblistyki, apokryfistyki, judaistyki i syndonologii, Warszawa 2020, pp. 475–504.

Pilarczyk K., Polscy syndonolodzy. Z dziejów badań Całunu Turyńskiego i ich popularyzacji, “Collectanea Theologica” 2018, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 28–29, https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2018.88.2.02.

Waliszewski S., Badacz Całunu Turyńskiego [Władysław Fenrych], “Przewodnik Katolicki” 2003, No. 35.

Syndonological Bibliography

Fenrych W., Krew na Całunie nie jest zagadką, rozm. z doc. (…), “Za i Przeciw” 1984, No. 29(1419), pp. 18–19.

Fenrych W. (with S. Waliszewski), Krwawe plamy na Całunie a współczesna hematologia, [in:] S. Waliszewski, Całun Turyński dzisiaj, Kraków 1987, pp. 133–146 (also: 3^rd ed., 1994, pp. 135–146).

Fenrych W., Świadectwo Całunu o zmartwychwstaniu Chrystusa, [in:] S. Waliszewski, Całun Turyński dzisiaj, Kraków 1987, pp. 147–150 (also: 3^rd ed., 1994).

Fenrych W. (with B. Makiej, J. Dołęga-Chodasiewicz, S. Waliszewski), L’influenza del reliquiario sulla datazione della Sindone col C-14, “Collegasmento pro Sindone” [Roma] 1989, No. 2 (marzo), pp. 34–35.

Fenrych W. (with S. Waliszewski), Chusta z Oviedo, “W Drodze” 1993, Vol. 21, No. 6(238), pp. 94–98.

Fenrych W., Całun Turyński. Oryginał czy falsyfikat, “Przewodnik Katolicki” 1993, Vol. 99, No. 40, p. 6.

Fenrych W., Próba dziewięciu, [in:] S. Waliszewski, Całun Turyński dzisiaj, Kraków 1994, pp. 153–157.

Fenrych W., Tajemnica Całunu Turyńskiego i Chusty z Oviedo, rozm. K. Szatkowska, “Sta Allegro” [Poznań], No. 38, 1997, pp. 2–3.

Fenrych W., Badania naukowe Całunu Turyńskiego, “Postępy Medycyny Sądowej i Kryminologii” 1998, Vol. 4, pp. 161–172.

Fenrych W., Modliłem się przy Całunie Turyńskim, “Maryjna Wspólnota” 1998, No. 7–8, pp. 2–3, with illustrations.

Fenrych W., Refleksje z okazji wystawienia Całunu Turyńskiego (18.4.-14.06.1998), “Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny” 1998, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 215–217, https://doi.org/10.21906/rbl.677.

Fenrych W., Shroud of Turin – Research Subjects: Proceedings of the Hemp, Flax and Other Bast Bibrous Plants-Production, Technology & Ecology Symposium: The Meeting of the FAO Extraction and Processing Working Group, “Włókna Naturalne” [special issue] 1998, No. 1, pp. 13–17, with illustrations.

Fenrych W., Wymowne świadectwo śmierci i zmartwychwstania, rozm. J. Knie-Górna, “Przewodnik Katolicki” 1998, Vol. 104, No. 31, pp. 10–12, with illustrations.

Fenrych W., Całun Turyński – niezwykła relikwia oraz zabytek archeologiczny, “Ars Senescendi. Zeszyty Uniwersytetu Trzeciego Wieku w Poznaniu” 1999, No. 3, pp. 89–95.

Fenrych W., III Międzynarodowy Kongres “Całun a nauka”, “Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny” 1999, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 51–62, https://doi.org/10.21906/rbl.1782.

Fenrych W., Badania naukowe Całunu Turyńskiego, [in:] Biblia w roku 2000. Teksty wykładów wygłoszonych na sympozjum naukowym zorganizowanym przez Oddział Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Wydział Teologiczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu dnia 7 czerwca 2000 roku, red. A. Wójtowicz, Poznań 2000, pp. 61–75, 2 photos.

[translations] P. Rinaldi, The Man in the Shroud, London 1974, fragm.: Całun Turyński, przeł. z ang. W. Fenrych, “Przewodnik Katolicki”, Vol. 82, No. 15, 1976, pp. 4–5, with illustrations.

Wilson I., Całun Turyński, przeł. z ang. W. Fenrych, K. Karwowska, E. Waliszewska, Poznań 1984, pp. 222, 16 tabl. (2^nd ed., Kraków 1984, pp. 280; 3^rd ed., 1985).

Source of Image

Internet, http://biochemfarm.ump.edu.pl/sylwetki-kierownikow (educational use)

Krzysztof Pilarczyk

Staff member at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Center of the History of Christian-Jewish Relations, associate at the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow. His interests focus on the history of Judaism, biblical and apocryphal literature, the origins of Christianity, interreligious dialogue, sindonology, Jewish book culture and religious tourism (Middle East). He publishes his scholarly activity on his website. Author of more than 300 scientific publications.

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