Benedict Abbot

Benedikt Abbt (born November 3, 1768 in Diedorf , † February 16, 1847 in Augsburg ) was a Bavarian Catholic theologian and member of parliament.

Career

Abbot entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra in 1786 . He took his religious vows on November 13, 1787. He was ordained a priest on December 17, 1791 and received his first license to practice pastoral care on October 31, 1793. He continued his theology studies that he had begun in Augsburg from 1797 at the University of Salzburg . In 1798 he returned to Augsburg and taught philosophy at the Reichsstift St. Ulrich and Afra , later theology and canon law. After secularization in 1803 he was pastor at St. Ulrich and Afra until the reorganization of the parishes in Augsburg in 1810 and city pastor at St. Georg from 1811 to 1814 . On June 29, 1814 he received the St. Ulrich parish back and stayed there until his death.

He was entrusted with the supervision and management of the Catholic schools by the royal Bavarian government. From 1818 he was a representative of the Catholic clergy of the Upper Danube district in the Bavarian custody . On November 1, 1821, he was appointed cathedral chapter in Augsburg. Due to the loss of legitimation after his appointment, he resigned from parliament on February 11, 1822. In 1823 he voluntarily renounced the cathedral canonical .

Fonts

• Catechism for children of the lowest class , Augsburg
• Lessons of the Sacraments of Penance and the Altar , Augsburg, 1817
• Catholic sermons and homilies on all Sundays of the church year , Augsburg, 1822/23, 2 vol.
• Priestly address to a jubilant couple , 1833

Web links

• Benedikt Abbt in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History