Augustine Fink

Augustine I. Fink baptismal name Simon Eusebius Finckh (* before 1670 in Wolfach ; † October 1720 in St. Blasien ) was a German clergyman and abbot of the St. Blasien monastery in the Black Forest from November 19, 1695 to October 1720.

He studied at the Germanikum from 1670 to 1674 and played a key role in the reconstruction of the Berau provost and the Berau monastery .

Twice, in 1702 and 1713, he had to get to safety in the Wislikofen provost during his tenure as abbot . In 1713 his prelate felt compelled to ask General Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars to spare the besieged city of Freiburg im Breisgau .

Augustinus Fink had Francesco Antonio Giorgioli paint the New Minster . For the construction of the tower, he tried to have stone blocks from Roggenbach Castle removed. However, this did not succeed because the mortar turned out to be too firm and the cuboids cracked rather than loosened. An organ by Joseph Schid from Laufenburg and a new inlaid choir stalls, made by Konversen , came into the New Minster . In 1717 a hammer forge with a water channel was built, and in 1720 a nail forge . A well-equipped pharmacy and laboratory were set up as early as 1699.

coat of arms

A red lily on a gold background on a green three-mountain, above it a soaring finch.

literature

• Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott (eds.), St. Blasien 200 years of the monastery and parish church. ISBN 3-7954-0445-2 .
• Exhibition catalog 1983, The Thousand Year St. Blasien, 200th anniversary of the cathedral. 2 volumes. ISBN 3-7617-0221-3 .
• Paul Booz , architectural and art history of the St. Blasien monastery and its domain . Schillinger, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-89155-264-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Booz and Marianne Booz (arrangement and editors), History of architecture and art of the St. Blasien monastery and its domain . P. 227 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Romanus Vogler	Abbot of St. Blaise 1695 - 1720	Blasius Bender