Anselm von Edling

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Anselm von Edling OSB (born December 13, 1741 in Maria Saal , † April 23, 1794 in Göß ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal from 1778 to 1782 . He was also a historian , writer and poet of the Josephine Enlightenment .

Since Anselm Passaucko , his direct predecessor as abbot, was already a person with the religious name Anselm in office, Edling was often written as Anselm II .

Life

Anselm von Edling was born on December 13, 1741 in Maria Saal; his baptismal name was Wolfgang . Presumably he belonged to the same Gorizia noble family as the Gorizia Prince Archbishop Rudolf Josef Graf Edling (1723-1803). On October 22, 1758, Edling, at that time still 16 years old, received his solemn profession in the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal and was subsequently ordained a priest in Salzburg . Around 20 years later, now 36 years old, Edling was praefectus aerarii domestici and was elected abbot of St. Paul Abbey in the Lavant Valley on July 14 of the same year (Scriptores: July 15) . Before that, he worked as a pastor and dean in Wolfsberg .

During his term of office, the monastery was heavily indebted, and it was only the year before Edling's election as abbot that it started running a grammar school in the monastery premises. On October 7, 1782, Emperor Joseph II issued a court decree that numerous monasteries should be closed. On this occasion, he sent a commission of inquiry to St. Paul, which then decided that the highly indebted pen had to be closed. Even the introduction of austerity measures and an orderly economy could no longer save the pen. Joseph II thereupon canceled the pen on November 4, 1782; The term of office of Abbot Anselm II ended with the dissolution of the Abbey of St. Paul. In recent years he had spent a lot of time outside the monastery and lived mainly in Klagenfurt .

An intervention by Abbot Anselm II, who acted as confessor of Archduchess Maria Anna (1738–1789), the sister of the emperor, who lived in Klagenfurt , enabled the monks to return the following year. The still prevailing high level of indebtedness of the monastery led to another cancellation on April 10, 1787, whereupon the goods passed into state administration and a large part of the books and manuscripts in the monastery library migrated to Klagenfurt and Graz or lost parts of them as well as a number of works of art went. Emeritus Abbot was then in 1790 a member of the in Göß resident cathedral chapter of the newly created Diocese of Leoben . At the same time he acted as the priest house director, dean and pastor of the local cathedral church .

Until his death, Anselm von Edling appeared as a historian , writer and poet of the Josephine Enlightenment . He made a name for himself in popular education through some popular socio-critical works. His two main literary works were published shortly before his death.

The former abbot died on April 23, 1794 at the age of 52 in Göß.

Works (selection)

  • Anselm von Edling: History of the Duchy of Carinthia for the use of the student youth . 1781.
  • Anselm von Edling: The Kornet, or: That's how bad jealousy makes it . 1787 (drama).
  • Anselm von Edling: The incidents on the hunt, or: The eternal caution holds the shield over innocence . 1789 (comic opera).
  • Anselm von Edling: Blumauer accused the gods in Olympus of travesting the Aeneid . 1792 (parodic poetry).
  • Anselm von Edling: The priest as one may wish him and - as he is not available every day . 1793, p. 4 volumes (educational narrative).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Johann Baptist von Winklern cites April 21 as the day of his death in his work Chronological History of the Duchy of Steyermark , published in 1819 and 1820 respectively
  2. ↑ Karl Goedeke and Edmund Goetze name in the Seventh Book: Time of World War (1790-1815) again April 11th as the day of death
personal data
SURNAME Edling, Anselm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edling, Wolfgang (baptismal name); Anselm II. (Alternative abbot name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Benedictine, abbot, historian, writer and poet of the Josephine Enlightenment
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Maria Hall
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1794
Place of death Goss