Alban Dold

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Alban Dold OSB (* July 7, 1882 in Villingen in the Black Forest as Erich Dold ; † September 27, 1960 in Munderkingen ) was a German Benedictine . He became known as a liturgist , paleographer and palimpsest researcher .

Life

Erich Dold was born as one of eight children of the cloth manufacturer Heinrich Dold and his wife Leopoldine, b. Ruff, born. He attended grammar schools in Villingen, Freiburg im Breisgau and the Seckau Benedictine Abbey . In 1902 he entered the Archabbey of Beuron and took the religious name Alban . Here he studied theology and philosophy in the Maria Laach Abbey . In 1908 he was ordained a priest. During the First World War, Father Dold was chaplain on the Western Front from 1914 to 1917 .

In 1918 Alban Dold was appointed director of the Palimpsest Institute of the Archabbey in Beuron. Here he researched old manuscripts and for this purpose developed methods of making overwritten texts legible again. Among other things, he perfected the fluorescence process invented by Raphael Kögel OSB and first described in 1914 for photographing handwriting. He became "one of the first experts in the visualization and deciphering of erased writings on parchment". His scientific work comprises around 100 monographs and numerous articles.

Fonts (selection)

  • A pre-Hadrian Gregorian palimpsest sacramentary in gold uncial script. In addition to an unknown homily about the Canaanite woman . Beuron Archabbey, Beuron 1919
  • The Konstanz ritual texts in their development from 1482-1721 . Aschendorff, Münster 1923
  • St. Gallen and Zurich pre-anonymous prophets fragments . Art school of the Archabbey of Beuron, Beuron 1923
  • Two Bobbien palimpsests with the earliest Vulgate text from Cod. Vat. Lat. 5763 and Cod. Carolin. Guelferbytanus. Appendix: Scraped Pauline texts from the 1st half of the 7th century with a simultaneous unknown list of Pauline reading sections in a Bobbienser manuscript (Cod. Vat. Lat. 5755) . Art school of the Archabbey of Beuron, Beuron 1931
  • Newly discovered pages from an unknown Bible manuscript from Tours . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 48, 1931, pp. 169–176.
  • The Zurich and Peterling missal fragments from the turn of the millennium in Bari font with an independent liturgy . Art school of the Archabbey of Beuron, Beuron 1934
  • The oldest liturgical book of the Latin Church. An old Gallican lectionary of the 5th / 6th centuries Century from the Wolfenbütteler Palimpsest-Codex Weissenburgensis 76 . Art school of the Archabbey of Beuron, Beuron 1936
  • Extensive remains of two plenary missals from the 11th and 12th centuries from Monte Cassino . Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, Città del Vaticano 1939
  • From the Sacramentary, Comes and Capitulars to the Missal. A study of the time of origin of the liturgical palimpsest texts in Uncials from Codex 271 of Monte Cassino, which was fully developed for the first time . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1943
  • The Prague Sacramentary (Cod. O. 83, Fol. 1-120) of the Library of the Metropolitan Chapter . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1949
  • Sursum corda. Prayers from ancient Latin liturgies . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1954
  • On the oldest manuscript of the Edictus Rothari, original version of the Longobard Law. Time and place of their creation . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955
  • The secret of a Byzantine state charter from 1351. From the work of the Palimpsest Institute of the Archabbey of Beuron . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1958
  • The sacramentary of Salzburg. Reconstructed according to its type on the basis of the preserved fragments, examined in its relationship to the Paduanum . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1960
  • The Irish Palimpsest Sacramentary in CLM 14429 of the Munich State Library . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1964 (together with Leo Eizenhöfer)

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dold, Erich . Short biography in the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LEO-BW).
  2. ^ Art. Dold, Alban . In: Bernd Moeller, Bruno Jahn (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia of theology and the churches (DBETh). Saur, Munich 2005. ISBN 978-3-598-11666-7 . Vol. 1, p. 316.
  3. ^ Art. Dold, Alban . In: Frank Leslie Cross, Elizabeth Livingstone (eds.): The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 3rd ed. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3 . P. 498.
  4. ^ Obituary in Der Spiegel , October 12, 1960
  5. ^ Suso Mayer: Alban Dold. (Short biography, literature, bibliography) . In the S. (Ed.): Beuron Bibliography. Writer and artist during the first hundred years of the Beuron Benedictine monastery . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1963, pp. 38–50.
  6. ↑ Oskar Vasella: † Dr. hc P. Alban Dold OSB (1882-1960) . In: Journal for Swiss Church History , vol. 55 (1961), p. 88.

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personal data
SURNAME Dold, Alban
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dold, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine and paleographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen in the Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1960
Place of death Munderkingen