Augustin Koch

Augustin Koch (born June 13, 1754 in Žďár nad Sázavou , † November 24, 1831 in Rajhrad ) was a Moravian Benedictine and abbot of the Rajhrad Abbey in Moravia .

Life

Augustin Koch was born in 1754 in the shadow of the Saar Cistercian Abbey , where he also received his schooling. Joined the provost's office in Raigern and ordained a priest in 1779, he then held parish positions in Domaschow and Schwarzkirchen (there for 25 years). He was very interested in agriculture and improved the yield of the parish estates. After Emperor Franz I had detached the Raigern provost from the Břevnov Abbey in 1813 and allowed an abbot, Koch was elected the first abbot on May 18, 1813.

Here, too, as in his pastoral positions, by introducing new agricultural methods, he made the extensive but devastated by the Napoleonic wars of the monastery lands into a model estate that attracted great attention at home and abroad.

literature

• Some features from the life of the deceased member of society, the revered abbot and prelate Augustin Koch in Raigern. Announcements from the Imperial-Royal Moravian-Silesian Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Natural History and Regional Studies in Brno 22, Brno 1831, pp. 258–260
• Mattausch:  Koch, Augustin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 13.