Basil Perger

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Basilius Perger OSB ( June 12, 1734 - July 7, 1807 ) was a monk , mathematician and astronomer .

Life

Perger was born in 1734. In 1755 he made his profession in the monastery Ochsenhausen . Four years later, while Abbot Benedikt Denzel was still in office , he was ordained a priest in 1760 . He then taught philosophy, theology, mathematics and physics in the monastery. In Geisenhof's section on Abbot Romuald Weltin , he describes Perger as a "learned astronomer and mechanic" .

Invoices from the instrument maker Georg Friedrich Brander from Augsburg can be found in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives in Stuttgart from 1768 . This shows that Brandner supplied precision optical and astronomical instruments to the monastery. A small note with the question: "Has the Observatory Astronomicum been built and provided with a quadrant and sector" can be found under the monastery accounts in the main state archive in Stuttgart from the year 1788. The observatory in the corner tower of the south-eastern pair of towers has a rotating dome viewing window world's only from the 18th century preserved Azimutalquadranten .

In September 1982, the two science historians Bracher and Bachmann from the Deutsches Museum in Munich were entrusted with the research into who built the azimuth quadrant of the observatory . In September 1982 they happened to find a statement from the monastery in the Stuttgart State Archives, which says: “ This summer RP Basilius has made a very large iron quadrant in the Mathematicum observatory, with Aloysi Weißhaubt earning 154.58 guilders. Item 2 journeyman locksmiths p 33 weeks a 3  fl 99 guilders. "

The total expenditure for the equipment of the observatory amounted to 8,914 guilders . Perger is also believed to be the modernizer of the 1955 decommissioned and finally 1968 demolished water lift on the Krummbach .

Perger died on July 7, 1807.

literature

East facade of the Ochsenhausen Monastery (2015). Perger's observatory is located in the left tower of the pair of towers on the left.
  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version ).
  • Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume).
  • Hans-Jörg Reiff, Gebhard Spahr , Dieter Hauffe: Ochsenhausen Monastery. History, art, present. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1985, ISBN 3-924489-27-0 .

Web links

Commons : Klostermuseum Ochsenhausen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Geisenhof: Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, p. 194.
  2. ↑ Hans-Jörg Reiff, Gebhard Spahr, Dieter Hauffe: Ochsenhausen Monastery. History, art, present. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1985, p. 80.
  3. ^ Dehio : Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, p. 513.
  4. ↑ Hans-Jörg Reiff, Gebhard Spahr, Dieter Hauffe: Ochsenhausen Monastery. History, art, present. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1985, p. 81.
personal data
SURNAME Perger, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, university professor and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1734
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1807