Adalbert Inama

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Adalbert Inama (born December 26, 1798 in Kaltern (South Tyrol); † October 28, 1879 in Roxbury , Wisconsin , USA ; also Father Adalbert Inama (Johann Ev.) ) Was an Austrian Premonstratensian and missionary .

Life

Adalbert was the son of Simon Inama (1750–1828) and grandson of Simon Inama von Sarnonico (1706–1762), from the well-known Inama family from the Non Valley in Welschtirol . He joined the Premonstratensian Monastery in Wilten in 1827 and was ordained priest (1828), professor at the Innsbruck grammar school (1828–1839), cooperator in Pradl and Lans (1839–1841), and lecturer in theology (1841) and canon in Wilten a theological career in North Tyrol.

In 1842 the monastery allowed him to stay in America for three years. He arrived there in March 1843 and was assigned a pastoral position in Williamsburg on Long Island and Utica by the Bishop of the Diocese of New York . In Syracuse he built a church. On a study trip to the West in September 1844, Inama collected valuable information about the Catholicism of German immigrants in the dioceses of Detroit , Milwaukee , Chicago , Dubuque and St. Louis .

In August 1845, the Hungarian Count Harszty (or Haraszthy) made land available to him for missionary purposes in the Roxbury - Sac Prairie (Wisconsin) area on Madison Creek. Inama came in November 1845 and early the next year built a 30-square-meter log cabin a mile west of Roxbury on the banks of Madison Creek. The log cabin called St. Norbert House became the first Catholic church in the area and Inama was the first resident Catholic priest for Dane and the surrounding counties. Inama built a parish school in Prairie du Sac and several mission stations with churches and schools in South Central Wisconsin around the main parish of Roxbury. The intensive and personal care of the congregations around Roxbury and the Madison Lakes by Father Adalbert Inama and his co-workers earned him the title of “Apostle of the Four Lakes Region” .

He received reinforcements from Wilten Abbey, so that in 1847 there was already a small convent . In 1852 the Bishop of Milwaukee approved the establishment of a Premonstratensian monastery, for which Inama was supported by the Leopoldinenstiftung and the Ludwigs-Missionsverein . Because of the long distances within the "Wilten USA Mission", however, the area could not be adequately looked after by the Wilten Canons and the plan to found a Wilten subsidiary in North America failed.

It was not until 1893 that the Westdepere Abbey was successfully founded by Dutch Premonstratensians. Adalbert Inama last worked as a pastor in Roxbury.

Inama's patron, Count Haraszthy

See also

The article on Roxbury in the English language Wikipedia contains more detailed and well-documented information about Inama's missionary work and his patron, the Hungarian Count Haraszthy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American sources give Wilten (Tyrol) as the place of birth, probably because he came to the USA from there as a canon.
  2. ↑ American sources call him a "Norbertine", which is just another name for Premonstratensians.
  3. ↑ a b see literature ÖBL: Inama, P. Adalbert (Joh. Ev.)
  4. ↑ a b see web link The Historical Marker Database (information board): Father Adalbert Inama - St. Norbert House
  5. ↑ see literature Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol AZ
  6. ↑ a b Sagen.at: Adalbert Inama , Biographien zur Volkskunde (European Ethnology) in: Databases on European Ethnology
personal data
SURNAME Inama, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian premonstratensian and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaltern
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1879
Place of death Roxbury , Wisconsin, USA