Beda Weber
Beda Weber , actually Johann Chrysanth Weber, (born October 26, 1798 in Lienz ; † February 28, 1858 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a writer , theologian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from May 18, 1848 to April 12, 1849.
Life
After an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, he attended the Franciscan high school in Bolzano and then studied philosophy in Innsbruck . He joined the Marienberg Abbey in Burgeis in Vinschgau , where he took the name Beda . From 1821 he studied theology in Innsbruck, later in Brixen .
After ordination in 1828 he became a teacher at the high school of the Benedictines of Merano ( South Tyrol ). In 1848 he was elected as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he belonged to Heinrich von Gagern's national liberal casino faction . From August 1849 until his death he was the Catholic parish priest of Frankfurt. In this function he was also a member of the cathedral chapter of the Limburg diocese .
During his term of office, the renovation of the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew from 1854 to 1856 and the execution of the endowment agreement with the Free City of Frankfurt in 1856, which had been concluded in 1830 .
Weber died surprisingly of heart failure. His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery .
In addition to his professional career, he wrote biographies, travel guides and published the texts of Oswald von Wolkenstein .
On Castle Obermontani an original manuscript was through him the Nibelungenlied rescued from the 1323 "". This unique specimen is now kept in the Berlin State Library as the Nibelungen manuscript Codex I.
Honors
Since 1848 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
- Streets in Lienz , Bozen , Innsbruck, Bruneck and Meran bear his name.
- The Beda-Weber-Gymnasium in Merano has been named after him since 1966.
- In Merano there is a bust of Weber on the Gilf promenade (since 1907).
Works (selection)
- Das Land Tirol , 3 volumes, 1837–38
- Tyrol and the Reformation in historical pictures and fragments. A Catholic contribution to the closer characterization of the consequences of the Thirty Years War from the Tyrolean standpoint , Innsbruck 1841
- Songs from Tyrol (poems), Stuttgart 1842
- The poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein . With introduction, dictionary and variants, published by BW Innsbruck 1847
- The city of Bolzano and its surroundings , Bolzano 1987 (unaltered reprint from 1849) ( ISBN 88-7014-459-3 )
- Oswald von Wolkenstein and Friedrich with the empty pocket , Innsbruck 1850
- Sermons to the Tyrolean people , Frankfurt a. M. 1851
- The valley Passeier and its inhabitants , Innsbruck 1852
- Character Pictures , 1853
- Handbook for travelers in Tyrol . In a gang; after the larger work "Das Land Tirol" improved and corrected many times, Innsbruck 1853
- Cartons from German church life , Mainz 1858
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Weber, Beda . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 169–177 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Bäumker : Weber, Beda . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 283-285.
- Florian Huber: Religious Ethnographies. Religion, space and nation in pre-March country descriptions . In: Hannes Obermair , Stephanie Risse, Carlo Romeo (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion - Cittadini innanzi tutto. Festschrift for Hans Heiss . Vienna-Bozen: Folio Verlag, 2012, pp. 12–31. ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 (on the meaning of Beda Weber's country descriptions).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Beda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weber, Johann Chrysanth (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Writer, theologian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lienz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1858 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |