Berchtold Zimmermann

Berchtold Zimmermann (born before 1480; died after 1504) was a Swiss monk and librarian at the St. Gallen monastery .

Zimmermann is proven as lord of the convent as early as 1480. He was one of the professed under Abbot Gotthard Giel von Glattburg , who died in 1504. In 1504 he was one of the conventuals who elected Franz von Gaisberg as the new abbot . As custodian , he received the library keys from him along with instructions for the librarianship:

"Frater Berchtoldus Zimmermann should have a key to the liberi, and the Supprior or Subdechan ( Gallus head ) can be helped that the books ..."

Zimmermann took part in the canonization of St. Notker in 1514 . He died on a September 8th.

literature

• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, p. 241, no. 65.
• Franz Weidmann : History of the library of St. Gallen from its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the millennial jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 55 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Paul Staerkle: The pilgrimage to «Our Lady in the Gate» in the Minster of St. Gallen (1475–1529). in: Journal for Swiss Church History (= Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique suisse). Vol. 21 (1927), p. 171 .
2. ^ Entry on Berchtold Zimmermann in: Professes under Abbot Gotthard Giel von Glattburg (1491–1504). World Heritage Abbey Archives, Canton St. Gallen.
3. ↑ Franz Weidmann: History of the library of St. Gallen since its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the thousand-year jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 56.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich Heer	Librarian from St. Gallen at the beginning of the 16th century. Custos	Gallus head