Albert Nagnzaun

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Albert Nagnzaun on a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber (1835)

Albert Nagnzaun OSB (born November 14, 1777 in Salzburg as Georg Albert Nagnzaun ; † September 29, 1856 ibid) was an Austrian clergyman and the 79th abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in Salzburg.

Since three people with the religious name Albert were already in office as Abbot of St. Peter before him , Nagnzaun was also often written as Albert IV .

Life

Albert Nagnzaun was born on November 14, 1777 as the son of the Prince Archbishop's gunner Franz Nagnzaun and Maria Theresia Forster at the Hohensalzburg Fortress and was subsequently baptized in the name of Georg Albert. The middle class Nagnzaun family has been mentioned in Salzburg for several centuries and brought out some artists, especially engravers. Among other things, Benedikt Pillwein reported seeing coats of arms and pictures from the 16th century with the signature of Nagnzaun . A Johann Nagnzaun worked as a gunsmith in Hohensalzburg around 1762 , where, according to Pillwein , he had painted a picture of Paracelsus . A Franz Nagnzaun (* 1771) was a watchmaker and engraver in Hohensalzburg; this was a cousin of Albert Nagnzaun. Nagnzaun's brother Michael (1789–1860) also became a Benedictine and was active as a pastor and musician in Salzburg, Carinthia and Vienna .

At the age of ten he came to the Konvikt of St. Peter Abbey as a choirboy in 1787 and entered the monastery on October 24, 1795, after having also worked as a choirboy in Salzburg Cathedral . He made his solemn profession here on November 21, 1798 . After studying philosophy , mathematics and French in the monastery with the teachers Ambros Vonderthon , Wolfgang Hagenauer and Constantin Le Priol and studying theology at the University of Salzburg , he was ordained a priest on February 28, 1801 , before his on March 22, 1801 Primiz celebrated. He then studied canon law and, from 1802 to 1804, also oriental languages . During this time he also became a curate on July 27, 1803 . He continued his studies on canon law in Rome from 1804 to 1806 and, in addition to the archaeological studies under the guidance of the Cassinese monk Carlo Altieri, continued to focus on the oriental languages. After his return in June 1806 he studied again at home and gave lectures on dogmatics to his younger confreres . In 1808 he was at the Catholic school in Salzburg to a doctor of theology and in the same year for the Doctor of Philosophy PhD .

In the same year he served as a supplement for the eye-sick Johannes Evangelist Hofer at the University of Salzburg , where he taught biblical studies and oriental languages, with Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer being one of his students. After the educational establishment, founded as a Benedictine university in 1622 , was closed in 1810 after the annexation of Salzburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria , Nagnzaun appeared as a pastor and cooperator in the St. Stephan monastery in Vienna-Dornbach . He was briefly called back to the monastery in 1816 to lead the novices and clergy , during which time he was appointed pastor and lordship administrator. Then he returned to the monastery rafters in Dornbach, where he served as pastor from November 1816 . In Dornbach he worked until his election as Abbot of St. Peter on December 15, 1818; he succeeded Joseph Neumayr, who died in April of the same year, and was appointed on January 23, 1819. In the same year he was elected abbot, he was appointed director of the Salzburg grammar school and, as abbot, was particularly responsible for the rural schools of the St. Peter monastery. During Nagnzaun's tenure, which lasted until his death in 1856, new rectories and schools were built and numerous buildings were restored. Furthermore, he was able to organize the broken finances of the pen.

In addition, Nagnzaun took care of the monastery archive, for which he acquired several large collections and created an extensive inventory (repertory of the monastery archive, 5 volumes). In 1825 he acquired his extensive manuscript collection and library from the government councilor Joseph Felner ; Part of his estate is still kept in the monastery archive today. There was also a considerable collection from the property of Johann Andreas Seethaler , who is known as the father of Salzburg archeology . Together with Dominicus Hagenauer , who was abbot of St. Peter from 1786 to 1811, he endeavored to expand and expand the mineral collection in St. Peter's Abbey. The two of them collected many minerals themselves or exchanged them with specialist colleagues or bought them. A large collection with around 10,000 individual items came from the government councilor and Montanist Kaspar Melchior Schroll , which Nagnzaun acquired for the monastery. Over the years the collection became one of the most important in Austria. It was also Abbot Dominicus who enabled Nagnzaun to travel to Italy in 1804 to expand his archaeological knowledge . He is also considered to be the founder of the Abbey Natural History Collection - an exhibition on all the plants, birds and other animals found in the State of Salzburg. Since the natural history facilities and collections grew very quickly, space problems soon arose in the monastery. Emperor Franz I gave him the opportunity to use the gallery of the imperial residence building in Salzburg to display the natural history collections. It was only under Nagnzaun's leadership that the monastery received its Biedermeier character. As a great admirer of Michael Haydn , he had a monument erected according to his own design in the collegiate church of St. Peter in 1821 for the composer who died in 1806 .

On September 29, 1856 at around 3 p.m. Nagnzaun died completely blind at the age of 78 from old age in Salzburg. Before his death, Nagnzaun had been operated on in Munich - without success ; Vienna could not be helped either. At the time of his death, Nagnzaun was a jubilee priest , prince- archbishop spiritual councilor and provost of Wieting in Carinthia . The burial took place on October 6, 1856 from 8 o'clock in the crypt of the collegiate church; afterwards the funeral sermon and the solemn spiritual office took place on the same day . At the well- attended funeral, Thomas Mitterndorfer , then Abbot of Kremsmünster , gave the corpse blessing. On October 7th and 8th, 1856, the other two soul offices were held.

Throughout his life Nagnzaun was portrayed by numerous well-known artists; including not only in 1835 by Josef Kriehuber , but also earlier, for example in 1818 in a 66.5 × 63 cm oil painting on linen with a gold-plated ox-eye frame by Barbara Krafft .

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c The mineral collection in St. Peter's Abbey , accessed on February 1, 2020
  3. ↑ Birth, bereavement and death. In:  Salzburger Zeitung / Salzburger Zeitung. Official sheet for the Salzburger Zeitung / Salzburger Landeszeitung / Salzburger Landeszeitung. Official sheet for the Salzburger Landeszeitung , October 1, 1856, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sza, accessed on February 1, 2020
  4. ↑ Personal News. - Salzburg .. In:  Salzburger Kirchenblatt / Salzburger Kirchenblatt. New episode , January 19, 1854, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / skb, accessed on February 1, 2020
  5. ↑ a b c Salzburg Tags news .. In:  New Salzburg newspaper. (An Abenblatt.) / Neue Salzburger Zeitung. (Abenblatt.) / Non-political subsidiary sheet of the Neuen Salzburger Zeitung , October 1, 1856, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nsr, accessed on February 1, 2020
  6. ^ To the story of the day. In:  Salzburger Zeitung / Salzburger Zeitung. Official sheet for the Salzburger Zeitung / Salzburger Landeszeitung / Salzburger Landeszeitung. Official sheet for the Salzburger Landeszeitung , October 6, 1856, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sza, accessed on February 1, 2020
  7. ↑ Steiner, Portrait of Abbot Albert Nagnzaun , accessed on February 1, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Neumayr Abbot of St. Peter Monastery
1818–1857 		Franz Albert Eder
personal data
SURNAME Nagnzaun, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nagnzaun, Albert IV .; Nagnzaun, Georg Albert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman and abbot of St. Peter
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1856
Place of death Salzburg , Austrian Empire