Albin Schwaiger

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Portrait of Albin Schwaiger as a painting

Albin Schwaiger (born December 16, 1758 in Böbing , † September 6, 1824 in Rottenbuch ) [baptismal name: Joseph] was a German Augustinian canon , meteorologist and pastor.

Life

His father was Anton Schwaiger and the mother was Maria Schwaiger, née Schnitzler. Joseph Schwaiger graduated in 1777 as a semi-arist at the Domus Gregoriana from the electoral high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). During his profession in the Rottenbuch monastery in 1780 he was given the monastery name Albin. In 1784 he was ordained a priest and was then pastor of Oberammergau . He was particularly interested in meteorology . On the Hohen Peißenberg , where meteorological observations have been made since 1781, he carried out systematic weather observations from 1785 to 1796 in addition to two confreres from Rottenbuch Abbey. From June 1796 to 1824 he was again pastor in Oberammergau and after the secularization in Bavaria was the local pastor there. Then he came back to the Rottenbuch monastery and died soon after.

In 1807 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Meanwhile, the Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeißenberg of the German Meteorological Service continues the weather observation. It is located on the Albin-Schwaiger-Weg, named after him, up on the Hohen Peißenberg.

Fonts

  • Albin Schwaiger: Attempt at a meteorological description of the high Peißenberg as a necessary addition to its prospectus map . 1791, p. 43 . In 1811 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences published a second edition of the book.

literature

  • Peter Winkler : Early history of the Hohenpeißenberg mountain observatory: new findings and specifications , German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-88148-481-7 , p. 103; there is a short biography with a picture (painting) of him, with several references.
  • Hohenpeißenberger Heimatlexikon , p. 304; there is also a picture of a portrait
  • Jakob Mois : The Rottenbuch Abbey and the beginnings of the meteorological observatory on the Hohenpeißenberg. In: Der Welf , Historischer Verein Schongau, 1995 year book, pp. 1–34; with several illustrations, including a painted portrait of him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Winkler: History of Meteorology in Germany, Hohenpeißenberg 1781 - 2006 - the oldest mountain observatory in the world , German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main 2006, ISBN 3-88148-415-9 , p. 150.
  2. ↑ H. Wietlisbach: Album Rottenbuchense. A directory of provosts and religious from the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Rottenbuch from 1902 with 103 pages, there on p. 84 from individual reference No. 3.
  3. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Schwaiger, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist and Augustinian canon
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Boing
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1824
Place of death Rottenbuch