Achill Beck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Achill Beck, oil sketch by Carl Ritter, 1850

Achill Beck (born June 27, 1771 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † February 17, 1853 in Waldshut ) was a German professor of grammar, Franciscan priest and Catholic priest .

Life

Achill Beck was born on June 27, 1771 in Schwabisch Gmünd. After studying ancient languages ​​and theology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau , he took up a position as professor of grammar at the Lyceum of the Franciscan Minorites in Überlingen in 1791 . On September 19, 1795 he entered the Überlingen Franciscan Convent and was ordained a priest on October 12, 1795. After the secularization of the Überlingen Franciscan monastery in 1806 and an interim retirement, he decided in 1811 to enter the world spiritual class. He received a parish in Altheim in the Seekreis from the grand ducal government of Baden . As early as November 1, 1811, he moved to Waldshut as a curat beneficiary of the Gottesackerkapelle.

In addition to his work as Gottesackerkaplan, he was assigned as a former minorite in 1820 to liquidate the Waldshut Capuchin monastery , which was converted into a chemical factory in the possession of the Aarau factory owner Friedrich Frey-Herosé . Achill Beck arranged for the reburial of the Capuchins , who were buried in two tombs until 1781 , for whom he laid a memorial on the north wall of the Waldshut Gottesackerkapelle. In 1825 he brought the heart capsules and above them the heart gravestones of the Basel prince-bishop Johann Franz von Schönau and the last count Johann Ludwig II. Von Sulz into the north wall of the chapel. Archill Beck died on February 17, 1853 in Waldshut. He was buried in the churchyard near the Capuchin resting place he had laid out.

Fonts

  • Notes from Father Achilles Beck on the history of the Capuchin Monastery, 1821-1825 , General State Archives Karlsruhe, inventory 227 number 271a.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Irmtraud Götz von Olenhusen : Clergy and deviant behavior: on the social history of Catholic priests in the 19th century: the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994, p. 130.
  2. ↑ Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, Issues 94–96, Bodenseegeschichtsverein, 1976, p. 77.
  3. ^ Grand Ducal Government Gazette , 9th year, Karlsruhe, 1811, p. 101.
  4. ^ Johann Huber: History of the Zurzach Monastery: A contribution to Swiss church history.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Achilles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Franciscan and professor of grammar
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1853
Place of death Waldshut