Athanas Gugger

Athanasius Gugger OSB (* August 8, 1608 ; † January 24, 1669 ) was a monk in the monastery of St. Gallen , priest, teacher and poet of Latin dramas, hymns and odes.

Life

Athanas Gugger was born in st. Gallic Berneck born as Jakob Gugger. At a young age he was sent to St. Gallen to attend school - the exact date is not known . At the age of almost eighteen he was accepted as a novice in the monastery of St. Gallen. A year later he made his profession . In 1635 he became a teacher for the Humaniora at the monastery school in St. Gallen and Mariaberg; on March 1 of the same year he was ordained a priest in Constance . He later switched to teaching at the St. Johann monastery in Toggenburg , which belonged to the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen, where he stayed until 1639. From 1641 to 1642 he was sent to Ingolstadt to study both rights. He died on January 24, 1669 after a long illness.

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In the period from his return to 1664 he wrote several dramas, edited the Alexandreis , Hymni Sacri and Odae Sacrae . The latter both emerged u. a. on the occasion of translation celebrations of saints, resp. their relics; this is then casual poetry . The titles of the dramas, which are handwritten in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen , are S. Notkerus (1642), Julianus Apostata (1643), Justus et Pastor (1644), Joannes Gualbertus Innocens (1645), Crisorius sive homo impius (1646 ), Edmundus Puer (1647), S. Babylas et socii (1648), Vitus M. cum Sociis MM. (1651) and Divus Othmarus (1660/1661). The material of the dramas is largely historical and hagiographic (cf. Notker II. , Julian Apostata , Johannes Gualbertus , Edmund of Abingdon , Babylas , Vitus and Othmar ). Most of the dramas are tragedies or tragicomedies, Edmundus Puer is the only comedy. They can be classified in the category of the Latin order drama . With the exception of Divus Othmarus , which was performed with great baroque pomp in the cloister courtyard in St. Gallen, these are school theater productions that were very common and enjoyed great recognition at this time.

Scientific activity

In addition to his work as a teacher and poet, Athanas Gugger also edited the Alexandreis of Walter von Châtillon .

literature

Maya Seiler: 400th birthday of a priest. Athanas Gugger, monastery poet and teacher, was born on August 8, 1608. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. August 8, 2008 ( online ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
Mentioned by Ildefons von Arx : Stories of the Canton of St. Gallen. Third volume. St. Gallen 1813, p. 273 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

↑ JA Bishop: Theater history of the St. Gallen monastery and the St. Gallic landscape in the Baroque era 1628–1798. In: Communications to the fatherland. History. 39, pp. 37-42 (1934).
↑ J. Duft: German and Neo-Latin monastery literature at the time of the Baroque. In: Werner Wunderlich (Ed.): St. Gallen, history of a literary culture. Volume 1. UVK Fachverl. für Wissenschaft und Studium, St. Gallen 1999, ISBN 3-908701-06-6 , pp. 397-423.
^ Alexandris, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni libris X comprehensa, auctore Gualtero de Castellione, ex veteribus mss. library 8. Galli et Montis Angelorum, in lucem edita. Opera RPF Athanasii Gugger S. Galli Monachi. In Monasterio S. Galli. Formis eiusdem. Anno partae salutis 1659 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Gugger, Athanas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gugger, Athanasius; Gugger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Religious in the monastery of St. Gallen
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1608
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1669

[1] JA Bishop: Theater history of the St. Gallen monastery and the St. Gallic landscape in the Baroque era 1628–1798. In: Communications to the fatherland. History. 39, pp. 37-42 (1934).

[2] J. Duft: German and Neo-Latin monastery literature at the time of the Baroque. In: Werner Wunderlich (Ed.): St. Gallen, history of a literary culture. Volume 1. UVK Fachverl. für Wissenschaft und Studium, St. Gallen 1999, ISBN 3-908701-06-6 , pp. 397-423.

[3] Alexandris, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni libris X comprehensa, auctore Gualtero de Castellione, ex veteribus mss. library 8. Galli et Montis Angelorum, in lucem edita. Opera RPF Athanasii Gugger S. Galli Monachi. In Monasterio S. Galli. Formis eiusdem. Anno partae salutis 1659 ( digitized version ).