Bernhard von Waging

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Bernhard von Waging (* around 1400 ; † August 2, 1472 in Bergen near Eichstätt ) was a German Benedictine monk and an important representative of the late medieval reform movements in southern Germany.

Life

Bernhard von Waging was probably born around 1400 in Arnsdorf near Salzburg . 1423 enrolled him at the University of Vienna and received his finally the title of Arts Bachelor . In the early 1430s he became an Augustinian canon in the Indersdorf Abbey near Dachau . In 1446 he moved to the Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee , where he made his profession on December 8, 1447 and five years later on February 5, 1452, he became prior under Abbot Kaspar Ayndorffer († 1461). In this office, Bernhard undertook several trips, mainly to promote the late medieval monastery reforms and the union efforts of the Melker, Kastler and Bursfeld observance . Most of his writings and several correspondence also date from this period. In 1465 Ulrich von Landau succeeded him in the office of prior. In 1467/68 Bernhard went to the Bergen monastery near Eichstätt as a pastor and confessor , which he had already visited for a longer period in 1461, where he also died on August 2, 1472. He is probably buried in Bergen, a burial place is not known.

Services

Bernhard von Waging played a decisive role in the late medieval reform processes in southern Germany. The overview of his works shows that he dealt with numerous current issues of clergy and monastery reform in the 15th century.

contacts

Most of his writings were commissioned in response to a specific, mostly letter, request, which indicates his high authority in questions of reform processes within late medieval monastic and clerical communities.

Bernhard was in connection with Johann III. von Eych , Nikolaus von Kues and Johannes Schlitpacher .

Further relationships can be proven to Indersdorf, Regensburg, Salzburg, Augsburg, Freising and Hieronymus von Mondsee.

Works

The article in Werner Höver's lexicon of authors offers a comprehensive but supplementary overview of Bernhard's works and their handwritten tradition.

  • (1450?) De forma servanda in excommunicando et qualiter sententia excommunicationis in subditos ferenda sit
  • (1451/52) Laudatory doctae ignorantiae
  • (1455) Acta visitationis et reformationis
  • (1456) Epistola seu tractatus de esu carnium; De materia eucharistiae sacramenti
  • (1458) Confessionale seu tractatus de confessione; Tractatus de morte necnon de preparatione ad mortem seu speculum mortis
  • (1459) Defensorium laudatorii doctae ignorantiae; De cognoscendo Deum
  • (1460) Declaratio huius passus regulae S. Benedicti
  • (1461) Consolatorium seu remediarium tribulatorum; Exhortatio commendatoria simul quod ad bonum initiatoria eius, cui ista scripta specialiter sunt facta ("Tractatus de consecratione monialium")
  • (1461/62) Ordinarium missae practicum
  • (1462) Speculum (seu monitorium) pastorum et animarum rectorum
  • (1463) Defensorium speculi pastorum
  • (1463/64) De spiritualibus sentimentis et perfectione spirituali
  • (1464/65) Remediarius contra pusillanimes et scrupulosos

In addition, numerous sermons and letters have come down to us from Bernhard von Waging.

literature

  • Bernhard Pez: Bibliotheca ascetica antiquo-nova . 12 volumes, 1713–1733.
  • Georg Westermayer :  Bernhard von Waging . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 456.
  • Edmond Vansteenberghe: Autour de la Docte ignorance. Une controverse sur la théologie mystique au XVe siècle (= contributions to the history and philosophy of the Middle Ages , Volume 14, 2/4). Aschendorff, Münster 1915 DNB 365104965 .
  • Martin Grabmann : Bernhard von Waging (died 1472), prior of Tegernsee, a Bavarian Benedictine mystic of the 15th century . In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , vol. 60 (1946), pp. 82–98.
  • Paul Wilpert: Bernhard von Waging. Reformer before the Reformation. In: Walter Goetz (ed.): Festgabe for His Royal Highness Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria . Bayerische Heimatforschung, Munich 1953, pp. 260–276.
  • Hubert Vogel:  Bernhard von Waging. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 117 ( digitized version ).
  • Werner Höver: Art. Bernhard von Waging. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Vol. 1 (1978), col. 779-789.
  • Ulrike Treusch: Bernhard von Waging (1472), a theologian of the Melker reform movement. Monastic theology in the 15th century? (= Contributions to Historical Theology , Volume 158). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-16-150842-4 (slightly revised dissertation University of Tübingen 2010, 356 pages).
  • Victoria Hohenadel: “Sequere me” - A letter to Bernhard von Waging (edition and investigation). In: Franz Xaver Bischof, Martin Thurner (ed.): The Benedictine monastery reform in the 15th century in German-speaking countries (= publications by the Grabmann Institute for Research into Medieval Theology and Philosophy , Vol. 56). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005539-8 , pp. 159-183.
  • Victoria Hohenadel: The Consolatorium tribulatorum of Bernhard von Waging. Editorial history edition and literary historical study (= contributions to the history of old monasticism and Benedictineism . New series, volume 1). Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-10386-9 (Dissertation University of Munich 2013/2014, 310 pages).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond Vansteenberghe, Autour de la Docte ignorance. Une controverse sur la théologie mystique au XVe siècle Münster 1915 (contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages 14, 2–4).
  2. ↑ Alois Anger Pointner: Nicholas of Cusa and Bernard of Waging . in: Amperland , 1st year, 1965, pp. 3–5.
  3. ^ Franz Hubalek: From the correspondence of Johannes Schlitpacher von Weilheim . The Codex 1767 of the Melk Abbey Library. Diss. Vienna 1963.
  4. ↑ Werner Höver: Art. Bernhard von Waging . In: Author's Lexicon, Vol. 1 (1978), Sp. 779-789.
  5. ↑ Printed in the arrangement of the Carthusian Antonius Volmar in Pez, Bibl. Asc. V, 1724, pp. 1-404.
  6. ↑ Printed by Pez, Bibl. Asc. VII, 1725, pp. 447-525.
  7. ↑ An overview can be found in Höver, Art. Bernhard von Waging. In: Author's Lexicon, Vol. 1 (1978), Sp. 779-789.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard von Waging
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine monk and representative of the late medieval reform movements in southern Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1472
Place of death Bergen near Eichstätt