Augustin Grüniger

Augustin Grüniger OSB (* December 12, 1824 in Altendorf as Johann Joseph Grüniger ; † March 14, 1897 in Gries-Quirein ) was a Swiss Benedictine monk . From 1887 until his death he was abbot of the Muri-Gries Abbey in Bozen ( South Tyrol ).

biography

The son of the innkeeper Bernhard Ignaz Grüniger and Katharina Rosa Diethelm studied at the monastery school in Muri from 1836 . After the Muri monastery was abolished by the government of the canton of Aargau in January 1841 , Grüniger continued his studies at the St. Michael College in Friborg . There he was a co-founder of the Swiss Student Union . In 1846 he was accepted as the first novice in Gries, where Muri Abbey had meanwhile moved . In 1848 he laid the profession from a year later, the ordination . From 1850 to 1857 he worked as a teacher at the college in Sarnen (forerunner of the Obwalden canton school ).

From 1858 Grüniger worked as a chaplain in Marling , from 1860 as a teacher of philosophy in Gries. In 1863 he returned to Sarnen, where he was teacher and rector of the college for the next 24 years. 1884 awarded him Bürgergemeinde Sarnen also the honorary citizenship, a year later, rural community of Canton Obwalden . This happened because of his contributions to the modernization and expansion of the college to a grammar school with boarding school. On November 8, 1887, Grüniger was elected Abbot of Muri and Prior of Gries. In 1892 he led the move of the convent of the abolished Benedictine convent Hermetschwil to Habsthal .

literature

• Ephrem Omlin: The clergy of Obwalden from the 13th century to the present. Sarnen 1984, p. 279.

Web links

• Roland Sigrist: Grüniger, Augustin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Bonaventure III. Foffa	Abbot of Muri-Gries 1887–1897	Ambrosius II. Steinegger