Berthold Sengschmitt

Berthold Sengschmitt, lithograph by Gabriel Decker , 1844

Berthold Sengschmitt OSB (born September 19, 1801 in Alservorstadt , today a district of Vienna ; † July 23, 1852 in Vienna; actually Johannes Sengschmitt , pseudonym Berthold ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic writer and archivist .

Life

Seng Schmitt, son of an Upper Austrian Weber, came after the visit of the Vienna Piarist grammar school in 1818, first in the Piarist , but left that after just one year. In 1821 he was dressed as a Benedictine in the Scottish Abbey. After his ordination in 1826 he was briefly a cooperator in the parish Stammersdorf before 1828 to the Schottengymnasium was appointed, where he first grammar , later the humanity classes after all and after the reorganization of the school from 1850 Latin and German taught. In the monastery he was also appointed secretary to Abbot Sigismund Schultes and the monastery archivist . As such, he rearranged the monastery archive and created the Abbey Scottish archive catalog (from 1846) , which is still used today . In addition, Sengschmitt wrote a six-volume pen chronicle , which lasted until 1848, and a necrologium of the Schottenstift with numerous biographical information .

Not only was Sengschmitt an enthusiastic Germanist and one of the first religious teachers who, despite Metternich's censorship, encouraged his students to study German-language literature ; he was also active as a dialect poet and wrote poems in a Lower Austrian dialect approximated to Viennese . Although his poems mostly remained unpublished, researchers today compare them with the works of Ignaz Franz Castelli , Joseph Misson and Johann Gabriel Seidl .

Works (selection)

• Estreicha Liadln
• The rhyming and the absurd

literature

• Othmar Helferstorfer : Obituary for Berthold Sengschmitt . In: Annual report of the united kais. High school to the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1852 . Vienna 1852, p. 19 f.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sengschmitt, Berthold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, p. 113 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Geist: Berthold Sengschmitt, an unknown dialect poet from the Schottenstift . In: 132nd annual report of the Schottengymnasium in Vienna. Issued at the end of the school year 1952/53 . Vienna 1953, pp. 5–15.
• Sengschmitt P. Berthold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005,ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 175.