Aemilian Zeller

Aemilian Zeller (born October 16, 1691 in Innsbruck ; † April 27, 1760 ) was librarian at the St. Gallen monastery from 1729 to 1733 .

Live and act

Zeller came to St. Gallen in 1707, where he made his profession in 1710 . In 1713 he became a subdeacon and in 1714 a deacon. He became a priest in 1716. In 1718 he was in St. Johann , from where he was called off again and sent to Weingarten. In October of the same year he became a subvestiar , at the same time he was a subcustos , subcaeremoniar , teacher of grammar and Greek. In 1719 he became a subvestiar and teacher of syntax . Dismissed from the vestry in 1721, he became a teacher of higher syntax and in 1725 of rhetoric. In 1726 he became sub-librarian and in 1727 bursarius . In 1728 he reappeared in the office of subvesti, and from 1729 as librarian. In 1732 he became fiefdom provost . In 1733 the Pope released him to Pfäfers to use the visitors . There he taught rhetoric and canon law . As early as 1735, however, Aemilian Zeller was back in St. Gallen, where he was giving lectures on St. Scripture began. In 1737 he became head chef . In 1745 he was appointed as deputy in St. Gallen, but also as bursarius and cellar master. In 1753 he took over the corn office, at the same time he was government and palace councilor . In 1760 he died of a stroke.

Aemilian Zeller's manuscript catalog, which is arranged alphabetically, has survived. Not preserved, but noted in the abbot's diary, is a theoretical text on poetry that he wrote together with another priest.

literature

• Henggeler, Rudolf : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Zug 1929, p. 364.
• Weidmann, Franz: History of the library of St. Gallen since its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the millennial jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 156.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard Frank von Frankenberg	Librarian of St. Gallen 1729–1733	Cölestin Gugger von Staudach