Beda Menzel

Beda Menzel (born January 2, 1904 in Braunau ; † August 29, 1994 ) was a German Benedictine (OSB) and church historian .

Life

The son of the master tailor Franz Menzel and his wife Anna, b. Opitz, attended the elementary school and the high school of the Benedictines in his hometown. After graduating from high school in 1923, he entered Broumov Abbey . He completed his novitiate in Břevnov Monastery . From 1924 to 1928 he studied Catholic theology at Charles University . After serving in the Czechoslovak Army , he was ordained a priest on July 1, 1928 in the Church of the Seminary in Prague. He completed a second degree for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of history and geography from 1928 to 1934 in Munich and Prague . In 1932 he was in Prague for the Doctor of Philosophy PhD , and 1933 and 1934 he passed the teacher checks off. From 1937 to 1939 he headed the Braunauer Stiftsobergymnasium. During the whole of the Second World War he was pastor of the monastery parish Ruppersdorf . On November 27, 1945, he and Abbot Dominik Prokop fled to Metten Monastery . From 1947 to 1963 he headed the Johannes Nepomuk High School .

Fonts (selection)

• The abbey church in Rohr. A work by Egid Quirin Asam (1722) . Regensburg 1959, OCLC 632574117 .
• with Franz Schöbel: Houses of God from home. A home book of the Giant Mountains and Braunauer Ländchen . Kempten 1966, OCLC 1018210747 .
• Abbot Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch of Břevnov-Braunau. Origin, environment and sphere of activity . Koenigstein im Taunus 1969, OCLC 462862594 .
• Fate of Braunau Abbey in Rohr under the government of Abbot Dr. Dominik Prokop 1926–1969 and their effects . Munich 1980, OCLC 144817012 .

literature

• In memoriam. P. Dr. Beda Menzel OSB . in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches . 106.2 (1995), pp. 493-495, ISSN  0303-4224 .