Anton Ginther

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Portrait of Anton Ginthers in the north transept of the Biberbach pilgrimage church shown
Frontispiece from Anton Ginthers "Speculum Amoris & Doloris" (1706)
Title page from Anton Ginthers "Speculum Amoris & Doloris" (1706)
Frontispiece from Anton Ginthers "Mater Amoris et Doloris" (1711)
Title page from Anton Ginthers "Mater Amoris et Doloris" (1711)
Title page from Anton Ginthers "Christian Virtue Mirror" (1714)
Frontispiece from Anton Ginthers “Currus Israel” (1717)
Title page from Anton Ginthers "Currus Israel" (1717)
Frontispiece from Anton Ginthers "Unus pro omnibus, [...]" (1726, posthumous)
Title page from Anton Ginthers "Unus pro omnibus, [...]" (1726, posthumous)
Arcade of the Dolorosa Chapel of the Iglesia de San Isidoro el Real in Oviedo (Asturias). The two hearts of the emblem for "Consideratio XLVI: Vulneratum vulnerat." from Anton Ginthers "Mater amoris et doloris, quam Christ in cruce moriens omnibus ac singulis suis fidelibus in matrem legavit: ecce mater tua." (Georg Schlueter and Martin Happach, Augsburg 1711).

Anton Ginther (born July 11, 1655 in Friedberg , Bavaria ; † March 8, 1725 in Biberbach , Swabia ) was a Catholic pastor and dean in Biberbach, the founder of the Biberbach pilgrimage and author of sacred works.

Origin, childhood and education

Anton Ginther was the child of simple parents ( ... non nobilibus quidem, ſed honeſtis parentibus ... (not noble, but honorable parents) ). Serious complications arose during his birth which prompted his mother to invoke St. Anthony as the future patron saint, the child, should it be male, to vow to a priestly career and to give him a pious upbringing. He was sponsored by the Fugger family and received his education at what was then the St. Salvator Jesuit College (now the St. Stephan high school ) in Augsburg. In Augsburg Anton Ginther had a formative experience, which Joseph Ignatz Claus describes in the funeral sermon on Anton Ginther (§ I. Para. 12) as follows: When he was still studying humanity in Augſpurg, he was once led by a school teacher been a Theatro , or shop = stage one Marckt = Schreyer, allwo the Gauckler or Schalcks = fool, as usually happens insgemein, vortruge the multitude sorts of ridiculous, and the respectability contrary lauff end villi and antics. What history? have you never gone when a dear little son, against the will of his father, is staying too long with other boys in the garden, and is having courage, then the father comes in behind him, blows him a prank, and takes him home quickly. Alſo fatally, God dealt with the young Antonio, he dealt him a prank, which is there by the theater , in the presence of a large crowd, he immediately hit him with a dangerous rupture or body damage. [...] He has to wait a whole year for this dangerous and arduous burden to end a fatal prince until he is finally in the third year of a priestly status of the universal miraculous salvation. Creutz has been healed to a wonderful white. This " rupture " is described in the epitome (§ III. P. 620) as a hernia ( [...] in ipſa conferta hominum multitudine gravi hernia percuſſus [..] ). Anton Ginther did not find his own healing in the miracle book In cruce salus. recorded, however, as the following books of miracles show, this event seems to have had a particularly attractive effect on speakers with hernias. The minor ordinations took place on September 24, 1678, the sub-diaconal ordination on April 1, 1679, the diaconal ordination on May 27, 1679, and the priestly ordination on September 23, 1679. In 1681 Anton Ginther, together with Johann Ulrich Spindler, the High Count of Fugger's caretaker in Biberbach, testified to the miraculous healing of a child by Marcus von Aviano , who shortly before in Neuburg on the Danube revealed a "turning point" miracle on a figure of Mary kept in the local parish church would have. Anton Ginther promoted the pilgrimage to the “ Herrgöttle von Biberbach ” with the publication of the book of miracles In cruce salus. two years later.

The trip to Rome in 1685

In 1685 Anton Ginther traveled to Rome to learn from Pope Innocent XI. to obtain official recognition of the Biberbach pilgrimage. Joseph Ignatz Claus (§. I. Para. 6) writes on this: Since he was sent to the pabulary court Innocentii XI in Rome in 1685. to befande, has therefore the Most Reverend Cardinal Mareschotus verliebet in his lebhafften spirit to come on = and offtermahl anerbotten him wölle him standing his ground Latin and Italiänischen language in a Roman Cancellaria to a considerable honor = correcting transport, allwo he afterwards on the show = stage of honors without a doubt season = white would have gone up. But our Rev. Dechant fled! Where? on the mountain, wherever he and his crossed 46th year had to hang on the Creutz: Tribulationem & dolorem inveni! he used to say often: I found nothing there but sadness and hardship. Claus describes the stay in Rome himself in the epitoms (§. IV. P. 622): [...] from Eminentiſſimo Cardinale Mareſchoto in ſacellanum domeſticum cooptatus, tandem hujus ſui Moecenatis operâ ad conſpectum, affatúmque Romani Pontificis tum temporis Innocentii XI. admiſſus eſt. Illi Sacrosanctæ Crucis Biberbacenſis iconem tradit, ejúsque ortum, ac progreſſum nec non prodigioſam beneficentiam compendioſa enarratione deſcribit, tam auſpiciato ſucceſſu, ut quinque Sanctorum Martyrum corporaſce acerum corporaſce Biberum corpora, illuſtre. Acres erant Antonio ſpiritus, & amoena converſandi ratio, ut ita facilè eorum corda, affectúsque ſuffurari calleret, quibuscum familiariter agebat. Quare prædictus Eminentiſſimus Cardinalis eum in Italia detinere viribûs omnibus allaborabat, additîs magni nominis promiſsîs.

Work and reception

The baroque redesign of the pilgrimage church with the consecration on September 15, 1697 falls during his period of activity. For the construction of the pilgrimage church he raised the then enormous sum of over 20,000 florins : [...] quamvis initiô ultrà ſexcentos florenos in ærario inventi non ſint , nihilominùs grandem illam fabricam ultrà viginti millium florenorum impenſis conſtantem, à fundamentis magnificè excitatam intra triennium feliciter ad finem perduxerit. it says in the epitoms (§. IV. p. 621), and Claus (§. II. para. 15) praises: When the old churches began to be torn down and the foundation for the new one began 600 guilders, and not more in the Caſſa. The cost of the whole building up to its completion, however, easily amounts to 20,000. The peculiar façade of the five holy bodies, which he brought from Rome with me, to 6,000. The altars and artful mills to 4,000.

A cure is also attributed to Anton Ginther: I do not want to report anything about that person who is badly plagued with the evil spirit and has fallen into utter senselessness, to which he, in the presence and attention of my and other divine ones, laid a priestly hand, and with those words : Sacerdos Dei tibi manum imponit , instantly brought to your senses (Claus, § I. Paragraph 13).

Until recently, Anton Ginther worked on his posthumously published work Unus pro omnibus. ( Even in the last days of a fatal illness he did not relent to taking hold of the pen with a half-dead hand, until finally a teacher clinging to the Creutz gave him the ſatis eſt , and instead of the pen, the dying = Creutz in his hands (Claus, Section I. Paragraph 8).)

Anton Ginther found his final resting place in front of the choir steps of the church

His works include the two emblemata "Speculum amoris et doloris" (Augsburg, 1706) and "Mater amoris et doloris" (Augsburg, 1711), as well as "Currus Israel et auriga ejus" (Augsburg, 1717), "Unus pro omnibus" (Augsburg, 1726 posthumously) and other sermon works. In his "Bibliotheca Augustana" Franz Anton Veith adds a detailed footnote about Anton Ginther and his works to his entry on Joseph Ignatz Claus .

Anton Ginthers emblemata were not only used for the iconographic design of the Biberbach pilgrimage church , but were also spread across Europe (e.g. in the parish church of St. Spirit in Neuburg an der Donau and in the Dolorosa chapel of the Iglesia de San Isidoro el Real in Oviedo (Asturias, see picture)). In Valencia there are emblems from Ginthers works on " azulejos " in the Hospital de Pobres Sacerdotes.

In Biberbach , a small street north of the church he built is named after Anton Ginther (Pfarrer-Ginther-Weg).

In the epitoms (p. 639) it says about Him: Et si homines taceant, vel ipsi lapides clamabunt, videlicet insignis Ecclesia, & peregrinatio Biberbacensis, quæ quoad stabit, Venerabilem Antonium Auctorem, ac fundatorem suum immortabitæconi. (And if the people were silent too, the stones themselves will call out loud, namely the wonderful church and the Biberbach pilgrimage, which, as long as it stands, will sing of its highly honored author and founder Anton in immortal praise.)

Works

  • In cruce salus. This is healing and miraculous Creutz to Marckt Biberbach . Utzschneider, Augsburg 1683
  • Description and content of all incidents and establishment / Bey of preservation / transfer / and burial of their 3rd holy bodies / As the same: S. Fortunati martyris, S. Laureati martyris, S. Candidæ virginis, & martyris ... Utzschneider, Augsburg 1687
  • Christian virtue mirror. That is, moral praise and honor speech of the miraculous life, holy and edifying walk of the first, holy and Clarenvallensischen Abbts also honey flowing teacher Bernhardi ... Lotter, Augsburg 1707
  • Mater amoris et doloris, quam Christ in cruce moriens omnibus ac singulis suis fidelibus in matrem legavit: ecce mater tua . Georg Schlueter and Martin Happach, Augsburg 1711, ed. 1
  • Currus Israel, et auriga ejus, ducens hominem Christianum per vias rectas, & in sacra scriptura fundatas in coelum . Georg Schlueter and Martin Happach, Augsburg 1717, ed. 1
  • Unus pro omnibus, hoc est: Jesus Christ dei filius pendens in ligno per homine indigno ... . Georg Schlueter and Martin Happach, Augsburg 1726, ed. 1
  • Speculum amoris et doloris in saratissime ac divinissio corde Jesu incarnati, eucharistici et crucifixi . Lotter, Augsburg 1731

literature

  • Carl August Julius Jungcurt: Book of edification for Catholic Christians specially set up for use by pilgrims to Markt Biberbach. Printed by Johann Baptist Rösl, Augsburg 1803.
  • Klement Alois Baader: The learned Baiern or encyclopedia of all writers, which Baiern produced or nourished in the eighteenth century. In the Johann Esaias Seidelschen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, Nürnberg and Sulzbach, 1804, page 383f. Reference on Google Book Search .
  • Anonymous: Detailed and complete description of Biberbach, and the pilgrimage of the Heil. Cross there. Moy, Augsburg 1826
  • Johann Baptist Wolff: Augsburg pilgrimage book for use in the pilgrimages to Andechs and Grafrath, Kobel, Violau, Klimmach, Biberbach and Lechfeld. Self-published by the Pilgrims' Association, printed by JM Kleinle, Augsburg 1858.
  • Walter Pötzl : Pictures of life to pictures from life. In: Contributions to local history of the Augsburg district. Volume 11/1991 (pp. 67–82), Ed .: Heimatverein für den Landkreis Augsburg eV, 1991, ISBN 978-3-925549-07-6 .
  • Hans Pörnbacher: Literature in Bavarian Swabia. From the Old High German period to the present. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1979, ISBN 3-87437-161-1 .
  • Walter Pötzl: sagas and legends. Schwänke and local nonsense. In: Contributions to local history of the Augsburg district. Volume 21/2006 (pp. 85–89), Ed .: Heimatverein für den Landkreis Augsburg eV, 2006, ISBN 978-3-925549-19-9 .
  • Walter Pötzl: Church history and popular piety. In: The district of Augsburg. Volume 5/1994 (pp. 159–166), Ed .: Walter Pötzl, Augsburg, 1994, no ISBN.
  • Cornelia Kemp: Applied Emblematics in South German Baroque Churches. In: Art History Studies. Volume 53, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-422-00725-3 .
  • Ingrid Höpel, Ulrich Kuder: Mundus Symbolicus I. Emblem books from the collection of Wolfgang J. Müller. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2004, ISBN 978-3-933598-96-7 , reference on Google Book Search .
  • Ana María López de Atalaya Albaladejo: Los Emblemas Christológicos y Marianos del P. Antonio Ginther. In: Actas del I Simposio Internacional de Emblemática , Teruel, 1 y 2 de Octubre de 1991, Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, Excma. Disputación Provincial de Teruel, Teruel, 1994, ISBN 84-86982-43-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carme López Calderón: Imágenes para la exaltación de la Mater amoris et doloris : las pinturas de la capilla de la Dolorosa en la iglesia de San Isidoro el Real (Oviedo) a través de los emblemas marianos de Antonio Ginther. Liño. Revista Anual de Historia del Arte, Ed .: Universidad de Oviedo, 2011, No. 17, pp. 65-79, web link .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f [anonymous]: Epitome vitae venerabilis domini Antonii Ginther decani, & parochi ad SS. Crucem in Biberbach (imprint on “Unus pro omnibus” from the first, posthumous edition (hic), without indication of the author, Joseph Ignatz Attributed to Claus , see KA Baader: "The learned Baiern ..." , see above)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Joseph Ignatz Claus : “The seventy preaching. On the corpse = starting nut of the Hochw. Mr. Antonii Ginther / pastor and dean of Biberbach. “ In: The guest invited to many places = preacher, that is different preaching on the feast = days of Christ the LORD [...] . In the publishing house Mathiä Wolffs seel. Wittib and Son, Augsburg 1746, ed. 1, §. III. Paragraph 23 (His rest = Orth, or grave = instead of he has chosen cord = straight under the shadow and face of his H. Creutzes, ut ubi ego sum, ibi & minister meus erit. So that where the crucified is, also the servant of the Crossed seye, rc.) .
  4. ↑ a b Stefanie Justus, Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe: Biberbach. Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Jakobus, St. Laurentius and Holy Cross . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1091-6
  5. ↑ Frantz Wilhelm Aymair: Authentisirter term Dess miraculous faith / Heyl würckenden Seegens / And to such Benediction ertheilter GOD Benefici s and made vilen wondrous events / Dess God blessed P. MARCI De Aviano, Capuchin religious preachers. [...] printed by Simon Utzschneider, Augsburg 1681, p. 36 chap. IX. "Ebner maſſen / praises and praises God in eternity and prayers aydlichen Caſpar Zimmerman / Hoch-Gräfl. Fuggeriſcher master creates Biberbach subjects / Altersan age at 2 years / what old reached year age completely crooked on the right foot and above on the same foot with 4. or 5. open damage / which he presumably had been injured by gusty people, he then went on a crutch at the 7th or 8th years / and although he was about the same from about the 4th years of age / but he did nothing else / than being able to walk hard enough with those toes on the ground / ignoring the sacred and secular means previously used / especially with promises and training of various pilgrimages / he finally bit Monday , November 18th , when it came to an end 1680th year after Augspurg to the very pious and godly Fr. Marco de Aviano , Capuciners come / and afternoon at 3 o'clock on de m Hochfürstl. Bischöffl. Fron-Hof received the holy Benediction , next to the veten trust and faith placed in God / there he was reſtituiret by the divine omnipotence in continenti to a pre-conceived condition in ſo far / that he is not alone now completely / and the same as another man / He could step and walk on his right foot / but he would also have completely disintegrated and healed the four or five open damages above / only that he was still somewhat hard and sagging because of the shortened right foot / and bains going up in the hip go Which the ends have signed with their eyes and signed with their own hand. Antonius Günter / Pastor of Biberbach Johann Ulrich Spindler / Hoch-Gräfl. Fuggerian nurse there. Five honest and completely undefiled men / as Matthæus Rauch / Frantz Böhm / Georg Leis / Sebaſtian Endriſt / Geörg Barthelme / and next to them Maria Kellerin Wittib / and deß Caſpar Zimmermann's ancestor. "
  6. ^ Franz Anton Veith: Bibliotheca Augustana, complectens notitias varias de vita et scriptis eruditorum, quos Augusta Vindelica orbi litterato vel dedit vel aluit. self-published, Augsburg 1785, Alphabetum I ( in the digital collections of the Augsburg University Library ), page 38 ff. "( a ) Cum ſermo de Antonio GINTHER inciderit, non ineptum fore cenſui, pauca de eodem annotare; ne forte Viri hujus zeloſiſſimi, tum pietate, tum eruditione & præcipue SS.Scripturarum ſcientia inſignis, memoria (ut fieri plurimum aſſolet) cum tempore penitus intereat. Natus eſt Fridbergæ oppido in limitibus Bavariæ, qua ea Sueviam reſpignis, ſito, anno a reparata alum doloribus correpta, omni jam humana ope deficiente, B. Antonio devovit, & divino ſervitio a ſe mancipandum fore ſpopondit. Hinc præter ſpem feliciter genito, dum ſacro fonte tinctus eſt, Antonii nomen manſit ſe quoaſſtra, utaria geoſſtra, it matris adimplendo parem ſe redderet, egreſſius, ſacerditio ſuſcepto, non ita multo post parochiæ Biberbacenſi præfectus eſt.In eo munere poſitus Templum, thaumaturgo Chriſti crucifixi ſimulachro celebre, ad eam magnificentiam, qua hodiedum viſitur, non ſine maximis curis adduxit. Durante hoc ipſo opere Romam profectus, alloquio INNOCENTII XI. frui meruit, & præcipue gratia ac favore Card. MARESCHOTI, qui eundem, Sacellani ſui domeſtici honore auctum, apud ſe retinere viribus omnibus allaborabat. At Noſter , utpote nec auri nec honorum appetens, in Germaniam remeare maluit, priſtinamque repetere ſedem. In hac per 46. annos apoſtolicis laboribus, omnibusque, quæ in ſacerdotem & parochum cadunt, virtutibus egregie defunctus, poſt diutinum morbum pientiſſime vitam finiit circa annum MDCCXXIV.
    Doctrinæ & pietatis ejus documenta inveni ſequentia. I. Report of the holy and miraculous Creuz to Marckt Biberbach. Augspurg . 1683. II. Christian Tugendpiegel, presented in an eulogy by H. Bernard . 4 to. 1715. III. Currus Iſrael & Auriga ejus ducens hominem chriſtianum, per vias rectas & in S. Scriptura fundatas, in cœlum 4 o. Auguſtæ. Sunt Conſiderationes prædicabiles in Dominicas & Feſta anni, octies Auguſtæ recurſæ: Præmittitur eisdem Hiſtorica Relatio de S. Cruce in Biberbach . IV. Mater amoris & doloris, quam Chriſtus in cruce moriens omnibus ac ſingulis ſuis Fidelibus in Matrem legavit, per ſacra emblemata, figuras Scripturæ, conceptus prædicabiles & c. explicata . 4 o. Auguſtæ . Opus quater ibidem recuſum. V. Speculum Amoris & Doloris in diviniſſimo Corde Jeſu incarnati . 4 o. Auguſtæ . Opus itidem ſaltem to Auguſtæ recuſum. VI. Unus pro omnibus. he Chriſtus Jeſus, Dei Filius, pendens in ligno pro homine indigno. Opus omnibus Chriſtum crucifixum amantibus, meditantibus ac prædicantibus & c. maxim proficuum . 4 o. Auguſtæ . Opus poſthumum, quater itidem recuſum ibidem .
    Notandum præterea, quatuor ſupra allegat latina Opera Antonii GINTHERI Lausannæ quoque fuiſſe reimpreſſa; quod in diſſitis regionibus, præprimis Hiſpania , multum peterentur.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Kaps: Neuburg an der Donau: From the hospital chapel to today's parish church of the Holy Spirit . Online publication, Neuburg an der Donau 2012, pp. 54-61, PDF
  8. ↑ Inocencio Vicente Pérez Guillén: Fuentes Iconográficas y Emblemáticas de las Azulejerías del Hospital de Pobres Sacerdotes de Valencia in: Actas del I Simposio Internacional de Emblemática, Teruel, 1 and 2 de Octubre de 1991, Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, Excma. Disputación Provincial de Teruel, Teruel, 1994, ISBN 84-86982-43-X
personal data
SURNAME Ginther, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastor and dean
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1725
Place of death Biberbach , Swabia