Benedikt Braunmüller

Benedikt Braunmüller

Benedikt Braunmüller OSB , baptismal name Anton (* March 12, 1825 in Rötz , Upper Palatinate , † June 12, 1898 in Munich ) was a German historian, Benedictine and abbot in the Bavarian monastery of Metten .

biography

After completing high school in Regensburg with the grade of "excellent", Anton Braunmüller began studying philosophy at the local lyceum in 1845. In order to finance his livelihood, he had accepted the position of tutor with the District President Freiherr Friedrich von Zu Rhein. He moved to Munich with the Zu Rhein family in 1847 and continued to study philosophy and theology there. At the University of Munich he listened to professors Ignaz Döllinger , Daniel Haneberg and Franz Xaver Reithmayr and lived in the Ducal Georgianum . After completing his studies, he entered the Regensburg seminary in 1849 and was ordained a priest on July 16, 1850 .

In the following year he asked for admission to the Benedictine Abbey of Metten. During his profession on October 24, 1852, he received the religious name Benedict . In the following years, Benedikt Braunmüller worked as an educator in the seminary and as a teacher at the grammar school of the Metten monastery and as a novice master at the monasteries of Lambach (Austria) and St. Bonifaz in Munich, which are associated with Metten . After Abbot Utto Lang's death, Benedikt Braunmüller was elected as his successor on March 17, 1884. As abbot, his concern was the renewal of monastic life and the economic security of the Metten monastery.

As a historian, Benedikt Braunmüller was mainly interested in church and order history, but also in local and regional history. In all these areas, in addition to his work as a teacher and abbot, he has left publications.

Works (selection)

• Contributions to the history of education in the first three centuries of Christianity (program at the end of the academic year / Gymnasium zu Metten, 1854/55), Regensburg 1854.
• On the educational status of the monasteries of the fourth and fifth centuries (Metten program, 1856), Landshut 1856.
• Der Natternberg , in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 17 (1873) 3–62, 125–184, 299–316.
• Contributions to the history of the eastern Danube region and the Counts of Bogen (Progr. Metten, Studien-Anstalt im Benediktiner Stifts, 1872/73), Landshut 1873.
• Comments against the new Petrensia on the heights of Pleinting , in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 17 (1873) 370–379.
• The praiseworthy Counts of Bogen , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria 18 (1874) 87–146.
• The accused counts of arches , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria 19 (1876) 3-66.
• Hermann, Abbot of Niederaltaich , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Niederbayern 19 (1876) 245–328.
• Sossau, its church and pilgrimage , Straubing 1877.
• Short report on the apparitions of UL Frau bei Mettenbuch , 3rd edition Deggendorf 1878.
• Historical news about St. Hosts in the Deggendorf grave church , Deggendorf 1879.
• A word to solve the question about the underground passages , in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Oberpfalz 34 (1879) 260–262.
• Deacon and Abbot Ato at a synod in Regensburg , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 2 (1881).
• Contributions to the history of checking , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 36 (1882)
• The series of the Aebte in the monastery checking , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 3 (1882)
• Confederation letters of the St. Emmeram monastery in Regensburg , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 3 (1882).
• Series of the Aebte of St. Emmeram in Regensburg , in: Studies and communications from the Benedictine and Cistercian orders 4 (1883).
• Monumenta Windbergensia, part 1. Tradition , in: Negotiations of the Historisches Verein für Niederbayern 23 (1884) 137–179.

literature

• Benedikt Contzen, obituary for Abbot Benedikt Braunmüller, in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 27 (1906) 797-801.
• Michael Kaufmann, Benedikt Braunmüller OSB (1825–1898). Abbot von Metten , in: Contributions to the history of the diocese of Regensburg 23/24, 1989/90, 774–784.
• Friedrich Lauchert :  Braunmüller, Benedikt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 211 f.
• August Lindner, The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in what is now the Kingdom of Bavaria, who deserve science and art. Supplements , 1884.
• Bernhard Ponschab, Nekrolog: Abbot Benedict III. von Metten, (Benedikt Braunmüller), † June 12, 1898 , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate 51 (1899) 277–294.

Web links

• Entry to Benedikt Braunmüller on medals online

• Portrait of Abbot Benedikt Braunmüller on the homepage of Metten Monastery

predecessor	Office	successor
Utto II. Lang	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1884–1898	Leo Mergel
Rupert Mutzl	Abbot praeses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation 1885–1891	Rupert Mutzl