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Bernhard Schwindel (born July 12, 1787 in Neudörfl , † December 9, 1856 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Cistercian and abbot .

life and work

Joseph Schwindel attended schools in Sopron and Szombathely . In 1805 he entered the Neukloster Abbey and took the religious name Bernhard . He studied theology at Heiligenkreuz Abbey , made his solemn profession in 1808 and was ordained a priest in 1810. Then he taught at the monastery high school until 1830. From 1830 to 1839 he was the parish administrator in Sankt Lorenzen am Steinfelde (today: part of Ternitz ).

Schwindel was abbot of Neukloster Abbey from 1839 until his death. He developed a great deal of activity in many areas of intellectual and social life (e.g. in beekeeping ), but his economic management maneuvered the monastery into such a difficult situation that his successor, Abbot Benedikt Steiger , after unsuccessful attempts at renovation in 1879, tried to integrate the monastery into the Heiligenkreuz Abbey had to ask.

Works

• (Ed.) Quinti Horatii Flacci , Opera expurgata et accuratis notis illustrata in usum studiosae juventutis , Vienna, Friedrich Volke, 1825; Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838.
• Topography of the Archduchy of Austria . 13 (= 1/9). The Cistercian monastery in Neustadt , Vienna, Wenedikt, 1835.

literature

• A. Strommer:  Vertigo Bernhard (Joseph). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 63.
• Benedikt Kluge, Das Neukloster in Wiener-Neustadt, in: Sebastian Brunner (Ed.), Ein Cistercienserbuch , Wien, Woerl, 1881 / Paderborn, Salzwasser, 2013, pp. 220–279 (here: 172–174).