Athanasius Miller

Athanasius Miller OSB (born September 22, 1881 in Wolfartsweiler as Max Miller , † April 17, 1963 in Leutkirch (Salem) ) was a German Benedictine .

Life

He attended the schools of the Emmauskloster and the Seckau Abbey . In September 1901 he entered the Archabbey of Beuron . After his profession on October 15, 1902, he studied in the Maria Laach Abbey . After he was ordained a priest on September 22, 1909, further Bible studies took him to Strasbourg, Jerusalem and the Middle East. In Beuron he taught the Old Testament at the home school from 1911 and was also prefect of the clergy.

From 1922 he taught at the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo . On May 8, 1949, Pius XII appointed him. as secretary of the Pontificia Commisio de re biblica . Due to increasing blindness, he asked to be relieved of this task in 1962.

Fonts (selection)

• From the Christian museums of Rome . Stuttgart 1925.
• The ancient Roman liturgy . Stuttgart 1925.
• Peterskirche and Vatican . Stuttgart 1925.
• The Song of Songs . Bonn 1927, OCLC 781277687 .
• The Psalms, Latin and German. With the Cantica of the Roman Breviary and an appendix . Freiburg im Breisgau 1937, OCLC 781878493 .
• with Johannes Schildenberger : The Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament. Translated and explained. Volume 4. Department 3. The books Tobias, Judith and Esther . Bonn 1941, OCLC 174529155 .
• The 7 Swabians or the trip to the monastery. An adventurous story . Beuron 2011, ISBN 978-3-87071-251-8 .

literature

• Johannes Schildenberger: P. Athanasius Miller , In: Erbe und Einsatz 57,6 (1981), pp. 455-456, ISSN  0013-9963 .
• Pius Engelbert : Sant'Anselmo in Rome. College and University. From the beginnings (1888) to the present , 2nd edition, EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2012, pp. 186–190, ISBN 978-3-8306-7532-7 .

Web links

• Athanasius Miller in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)