Anselm Schramb

Anselm Schramb (born September 15, 1658 in St. Pölten , † December 20, 1720 in Melk ) was an Austrian Benedictine monk , historian, philologist and librarian.

He joined the Melk Benedictine Abbey in 1676 . After his profession studied in Vienna and Salzburg theology and canon law . In 1683 he was ordained a priest. In 1694 he began lecturing at the Institutum Theologicum of his monastery and continued teaching until 1715. He belonged to the circle of learned monks around Fathers Bernhard and Hieronymus Pez .

Schramb achieved a degree of notoriety in scholarly circles through the Chronicon Mellicense and the so-called Antilogia Affair . The Chronicon - a monastery story by Melk - is considered one of the first historical works in Austria. Schramb worked on the model of the French Benedictines of the Maurinian Congregation , who were known for their rigorous source research. In Melk he was able to rely on the collaboration with the monastery archivist Philibert Hueber, and so the Chronicon was created from 1688 to 1702 ; it has been preserved in many monastery libraries and major international libraries to this day. The Antilogia affair was a priority dispute between Schramb and the learned Augustinian canon Augustin Erath. Schramb represented the older age for Melk, Erath for the Klosterneuburg monastery . The debate was finally completed on 13 July 1717 by the Congregation of the Index, as they both Schrambs Antilogia and Augustin Eraths Commentarius ordered ban and general silence about this controversy.

literature

Patrick Fiska: On the life and work of the Melker Benedictine Anselm Schramb (1658-1720). With an edition of his correspondence , in: SMBO 122 (2011) 201–306 ( online ).
Georgios Fatouros : SCHRAMB, Anselm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 880-881. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Entry in the personal lexicon of Lower Austria

Individual evidence

↑ Patrick Fiska: Studies on the life and work of Anselm Schrambs OSB (1658-1720). With an edition of the letter correspondence (Master's thesis Vienna 2009), p. 38.

personal data
SURNAME	Schramb, Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Benedictine monk, historian, philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Polten
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1720
Place of death	Melk

[1] Patrick Fiska: Studies on the life and work of Anselm Schrambs OSB (1658-1720). With an edition of the letter correspondence (Master's thesis Vienna 2009), p. 38.