Reverend Monsignor Joseph Turk

• 1951 http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-Z32TJ70M
• 1951 http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-RBOO32R7 San Francisco, CaJ. — Former Ljubljana university professor Msgr. died here. Josip Turk, 56 years old, born in Stopiška fara near Novi mesto. The deceased was a chaplain in Ljubljana for a while, after which he continued his studies and was appointed professor of church history at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana. In 1945, he escaped from Slovenia to Carinthia, and in 1949, with the intervention of his sister, he came to San Francisco.
• 1935 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSM1-ZNWN?i=25&cat...

Msgr. Joseph Turk papers 1922-1977. Turk, Joseph, 1895-1951. Western Michigan University Publication information: [1922-1977] 8 boxes.

Included in this collection are newspaper clippings from California papers concerning Tito and the governmental upheaval in Yugoslavia, personal documents and correspondence, and canceled postage stamps from Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany from the 1940's and early 1950's. Brother L. Dennis at Saint Mary's College in California donated the collection to Western Michigan University for research purposes concerning the Statuta.

Msgr. Joseph Turk papers. Department of Special Collections. Western Michigan University Libraries.

Msgr. Joseph Turk (1895-1951) was born in Verdun, France. Msgr. Turk studied at Universities in Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, and at the Yugoslav Seminary in Rome. He published two books: the Ways and Goals of the Scholastics in Slovenian and Cistercian Statuta Antiquissima in Latin. Msgr. Turk spent a brief time as the Dean of Faculty at the University of Ljubliana and taught two years at St. Mary's College in California.

Complete contents may be viewed online. http://web.library.wmich.edu/archon/index.php