Beda Adlhoch

Beda Adlhoch OSB (born November 19, 1854 in Ingolstadt ; † April 3, 1910 in Metten ), baptized Franz Xaver, was a Benedictine in the Bavarian monastery of Metten and professor of philosophy in Rome .

biography

Franz Xaver Adlhoch attended the Latin school in Ingolstadt and then the grammar school in Metten. In 1872 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck . In Innsbruck he was ordained a priest in 1878 . After graduating as Dr. theol. In 1879 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Metten, where he received the religious name Beda when he was professed. In 1881 he was sent from the monastery to study philology at the University of Würzburg . From 1886 he was employed as prefect in the monastery seminar in Metten. In 1891 he was sent to Rome as a professor of philosophy at the S. Anselmo religious school . As a teacher of philosophy, he admittedly complied with the ecclesiastical guidelines and followed themThomas Aquinas ; at the same time, however, he tried to overcome the narrowness of (neo) scholasticism by also resorting to the philosophical thinking of the early Middle Ages. After his return to Metten in 1899, he worked as a lecturer in exegesis and church history in the monastery 's house study until his death in 1910.

Works (selection)

• Praefationes ad Artis scholasticae inter Occidentales fata , Brno 1896–98.
• On the Vita S. Mauri , in: Studies and Communications 26 (1905)
• On the scientific explanation of atheism , Fulda 1905.
• Numerous articles in the studies and communications , in the Philosophical Yearbook of the Görres Society and in the Revue de philosophie .

literature

• Willibald Rauscher, Nekrolog: P. Dr. Beda Adlhoch , in: Studies and communications from the Benedictine and Cistercian order 31 (1910) 379–383.
• Michael Kaufmann, Mento mori. In memory of the deceased conventuals of the Benedictine abbey of Metten since the reconstruction in 1830 (history of the development of the Benedictine abbey of Metten, Part V), Metten 2008, 218f.
• August Lindner, The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in what is now the Kingdom of Bavaria, who deserve science and art From the year 1750 to the present , Vol. 2, Regensburg 1880.
• Wilhelm Fink , History of the Development of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten. Vol. 1: The profession book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1), Munich 1927, 86f.
• Pius Engelbert , History of the Benedictine College St. Anselm in Rome. From the beginning to the present (Studia Anselmiana 98), Rome 1988, pp. 58 and 120f.