Albert III Keuslin
Albert III Keuslin (* 1591 in Allgäu, Bavaria ; † 1657 in Salzburg ) was abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg . His successor after Keuslin's death in 1657 was Amand Pachler.
Life
Keuslin was born in 1591 in the Allgäu at Liebenthann Castle , a property of the prince abbey of Kempten, and attended the Ottobeuren monastery school . This was followed by studies at the Jesuit University in Dillingen . In 1617 he received a professorship for philosophy and moral theology at the later Academic Gymnasium in Salzburg . On July 23, 1622 he was appointed 1st Rector Magnificus of the Benedictine University of Salzburg . On April 26, 1626 Albert Keuslin was elected abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg .
Under Abbot Keuslin, St. Peter's Cemetery was framed by the arcade in the first year of his term of office; He also had a chapel built at the Aiglhof and bought Petersbrunn, where he had Santino Solari build a 15-axis complex with a grotto courtyard, an ornamental garden and a hermitage from 1631 to 1635. In addition, a library was built above the St. Vitus Chapel under Keuslin in 1653. As abbot he continued his literary activity, which was already pronounced as a professor. So he wrote a catalog on the history of the abbots of St. Peter.
Honor
Keuslinstrasse ( Schwabing-West ) in Munich is named after Albert Keuslin .
literature
- Heinz Dopsch, Roswitha Juffinger (eds.): St. Peter in Salzburg. The oldest monastery in German-speaking countries. Printing house Nonntal, Salzburg 1982
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/fabian?Universitaetsbibliothek_Salzburg_-_Hauptbibliothek
- ↑ http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/uniarchiv/rectores_magnifici.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keuslin, Albert III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of the St. Peter Monastery in Salzburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1591 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1657 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |