Berthold Egger

Berthold Egger CanReg (born November 15, 1852 in Frankenburg , Upper Austria , † July 13, 1891 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Augustinian canon and publicist.

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Berthold Egger, first name Anton, was born on November 15, 1852 in Frankenburg am Hausruck as the son of a master carpenter . The mother died early. He began his high school studies in Salzburg and finished them in Melk. After graduating from high school, he studied theology in Linz for two years, but dropped out after two years and enrolled for law. He also broke off this course and instead entered the Augustinian Canons of Klosterneuburg . He began his novitiate on September 13, 1874 and celebrated his first mass on November 4, 1877. He made his solemn profession on September 22, 1878. In the same year he became a cooperator at the parish of Floridsdorf .

In 1879 Egger published the calendar for the Austrian-Hungarian Catholic clergy for the first time (Vienna 1879, C. Fromme) and in 1882 founded the correspondence sheet for the Austrian Catholic clergy , whose management he had to temporarily resign due to illness. The paper was then continued by his brother Rudolf Eichhorn . After recovering, Berthold Egger was transferred to Hietzing as a cooperator in 1883 , from where he was in charge of editing the correspondence sheet for seven years . In addition, there was the literary journal Augustinus in 1884 and the pastoral journal Hirtentasche, edited by Edmund Langer in Tetschen , in 1888 . In Hietzing, Egger founded a Catholic-political association that he himself led. It is also thanks to him that the Christian socio-political journal Arbeiter was published between 1886 and 1887.

literature

• Berthold Otto Černík: The writers of the still existing Augustinian canons of Austria. From 1600 to the present day . Kirsch, Vienna 1905, p. 264 ff.
• Egger, Berthold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 221.