Anton Maria Kobolt

Anton Maria Kobolt (wrongly often Kobold ; born November 16, 1752 in Ingolstadt ; † November 28, 1826 in Altötting ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and historian .

Life

Kobolt was the son of an officer. From 1764 he first attended school in Ingolstadt, then in 1765 he moved to the Burghausen Jesuit College . There he was trained in philosophy until 1773 . From 1773, he completed the study of philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt to the promotion of Dr. phil. before he also devoted himself to the study of theology and both rights there. On March 29, 1777 he was finally ordained a priest in Eichstätt .

Kobolt was appointed canon at the Collegiate Monastery of Altötting by electoral decree of April 29, 1777 . He took this position in 1778. He stayed in Altötting until the end of his life. In 1795 or 1810 the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a member.

Publications (selection)

• Baierisches Schehrten-Lexikon: what all scholars of Baierns and the Upper Palatinate, without distinction of the classes and religion, which up to the XVIII. Century and up to the end of the year 1724. lived and wrote there, with their both printed and unprinted writings are described and contained in alphabetical order. Hagen, Landshut 1795 ( online ).
  • Additions and corrections to the Baierischen Schehrten-Lexikon. Storno, Landshut 1825 ( online ).

literature

• Edmund von Oefele :  Kobolt, Anton Maria . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 366.
• Klement Alois Baader : The learned Baiern or lexicon of all writers, which Baiern produced or nourished in the eighteenth century , Volume 1, Nuremberg 1804, Col. 600 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Anton Maria Kobolt  in the German Digital Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Baader names 1795 as the year of his admission (as early as 1804), the Academy itself states 1810 as the year of admission in its data set .