Bogumił Šwjela

Krystijan Bogumił Šwjela (also spelled "Schwela" and "Schwele") (5 September 1873 in Schorbus, Drebkau – 20 May 1948 in Naumburg) was a Wendish/Sorbian Protestant clergyman and ethnic activist in the Lower Lusatia region.

[3] His ordination took place at a time when the oppression of Sorbian language and culture by the Prussian authorities peaked.

Šwjela, of the nationally conscious young Sorbian movement, was motivated strongly to work for the cultural interests of the Sorbs.

[3] Following in his father's journalistic footsteps, Šwjela wrote for the Lower Sorbian newspapers and magazines Pratyja, Bramborski Casnik, and Woßadnik, whose main author was also him.

He founded the series Serbska knigłownja (Sorbian Library), in which he published mainly poetry but also literary, religious and popular scientific works by different authors.

Together with earlier companions, including the journalist Mina Witkojc and the painter Fritz Lattke, he developed an important foundation for the revival of the Lower Sorbian culture in the postwar period.

Before he found a new apartment in the Lower Sorbian region, Šwjela died in 1948 from a stroke on a railway journey from Rudolstadt to Cottbus.