Altmann Arigler

Abbot Altmann Arigler's coat of arms on his epitaph in Göttweig

Altmann Arigler (also Arrigler ; baptismal name Franz Xaver , first name until joining the order Franz ; born November 6, 1768 in Kirchdorf an der Krems , † June 5, 1846 in Göttweig Abbey ) was an Austrian theologian , Benedictine abbot and university teacher .

Life

Arigler was the son of a master glazier . After completing high school studies, he went to the Linz Lyceum to study philosophy in 1786 , where he remained until 1788. In 1790 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig . From there he went to the University of Vienna to study theology as a general seminarist in 1791 . He made his profession in 1792 and was ordained priest in 1793 . First he came to the University of Linz as a professor of the Old and New Testaments . In 1800 he was called back to the in-house teaching institute in Göttweig.

In 1806 Arigler accepted a call as a professor for Greek, New Testament and Exegesis at the University of Vienna and in 1808 became a full professor at the university. In 1810, with the dissertation Oratio academica habita ad initium anni scholastici 1809, the doctorate to Dr. theol. and thus the admission into the theological faculty with seat and vote.

Arigler was elected Abbot of Göttweig in 1812 and returned there as such. Through a clever administration of the monastery he was able to reduce the debts and partially renew the building fabric. Under his leadership, the new building of the Göttweigerhof in Vienna and the expansion of the Nalb priory came about . In 1813 he was given the title of Real Government Councilor by Emperor Franz I. At the same time he began to revive the church music of the monastery. In addition, one of his earnings was the home school, where he was a teacher himself, to open it to students from other monasteries. In addition, he became director of theological studies of the Lower Austrian Benedictines.

Arigler was elected prelate from 1818 to 1824, then he became a member of the Lower Austrian Estates College. Although the abbot became increasingly blind, he managed the monastery until his death. In 1843 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order on the fiftieth anniversary of the priesthood .

Works

• De certitudine studii biblici , Vienna 1809.
• Oratio academica habita ad initium anni scholastici 1809 , Schmid, Vienna 1810.
• Hermeneutica biblica generalis , 2 volumes, Vienna 1813 (was placed on the Librorum Prohibitorum index in 1822 , but reissued in the third edition by Joseph Vincenz Hofmann in 1846 ); online  - Internet Archive .

literature

• Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Presentation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens , Volume 10, Wallishauser, Vienna 1828, pp. 259–264.
• Arigler, Franz. In: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie. First volume (A – D), Vienna 1835, p. 104.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Arigler, Altmann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 466 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Werner :  Arigler, Altmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 527 f.
• F. Schuster:  Arigler, Altmann . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Web links

Commons : Altmann Arigler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arigler, Altmannus. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 81 (French, digitized ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Leonhard Grindberger	Abbot of Göttweig 1812–1846	Engelbert Schwertfeger