Benedikt Geygis
Benedikt Geygis SOCist (born April 2, 1752 in Bremgarten as Nikolaus Synesius Geygis; † September 21, 1818 in Wettingen ) was a Swiss Cistercian . From 1807 until his death he was abbot of the Wettingen monastery .
Life
Benedikt Geygis took his religious vows in the Wettingen monastery in 1772 and became a priest in 1775. He was then from 1779 to 1785 librarian and professor of theology at home studies, from 1798 also vicar in Spreitenbach . 1785 Gross waiter appointed, he succeeded in the time of the Helvetic Republic to improve weakened monastery economy again. On April 20, 1807 he was elected abbot and on October 18, 1807 in Wettingen by the nuncio Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata .
He died of a sudden death on September 21, 1818 and left a handwritten history of the monastery at the time of the French invasion, which was published in the Cistercian Chronicle in 1893 , and a diary.
Works
- History of the Wettingen church during the revolution . In: Cistercienser Chronik 5, 1893, pp. 1–13, 33–51, 65–82.
literature
- Dominikus Willi: Album Wettingense. Limburg ad Lahn, 1904.
Web links
- Benedikt Geygis in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of July 31, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geygis, Benedict |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geygis, Nikolaus Synesius (baptismal name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Cistercians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremgarten AG |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1818 |
| Place of death | Wettingen |