Basil Meggle

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Basilius Meggle (born July 4, 1754 in Stühlingen , † January 30, 1830 in Mammern ) was a Benedictine , philosopher , priest and poet .

Life

Basilius Meggle attended the Latin schools in Constance and Villingen and the university in Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1777. He made his profession of St. Peter on September 18, 1778 and was ordained a priest on October 18, 1779. At the time of the abolition of the St. Peter monastery , he was prior to St. Ulrich in the Black Forest . He then lived in St. Peter until 1817, then in Freiburg and Triberg and finally as a guest in the Rheinau monastery , where he died in their governorship in Mammern .

Works

Basilus Meggle had great poetic talent, several books appeared in print, especially poems, elegies and epigrams .

literature

  • Julius Mayer: History of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter , 1893
  • Hermann Wiegand: Latin poetry from the prelate monastery of St. Peter in Upper Austria. Peter Basilius Meggle OSB from Stühlingen (1754-1830) . In: Achim Aurnhammer et al. (Ed.): Between Josephinism and early liberalism. Literary life in southern Baden around 1800 . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9284-4 , pp. 465-496

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Mayer, History of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter , p. 223, 1893
personal data
SURNAME Meggle, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine, philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuehlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1830
Place of death Mammers