Bonaventure Brem
Bonaventura Brem (* 1755 in Kaufbeuren ; † August 4, 1818 in Weißenau ) was the last abbot and imperial prelate of the Premonstratensian - imperial abbey Weißenau , south of Ravensburg .
Life
The inscription on his (not contemporary) tombstone gives a brief description of his life:
- Resting place of the abbot Bonaventura Imperial Prelate of Weißenau
- He was born to Kaufbeuren 1755, put the order profession from 1776,
- was elected abbot November 3, 1794, and died August 4, 1818
- What i. Years eleven hundred forty-five donated
- Gebiz von Ravensburg from German piety
- Weißenau, Rot's eldest daughter and Schussenried's mother
- was swept away in the year one thousand eight hundred and three
- of the current of the spirit of the times destroying spiritual pens
- Weissenau counted among the forty-nine prelates
- largely worthy of the honor, Bonaventure was the last.
- His ashes rest gently until the resurrection of the flesh.
The monastery library
Abbot Bonaventure left a private library, which contained about two to three thousand volumes. It largely consisted of old prints and manuscripts that were rescued from the monastery library ("Bibliotheca Minoraugiensis") , which was sold to the wind after the dissolution of the monastery in the course of secularization . The books in the private library are marked with: "Bonaventura Abbas Minoraug." (Bonaventura Abbot of Weißenau). This rescued inventory, too, after Abbot Bonaventura's death, was initially housed in Liebenau Castle by a friend of his friends , but subsequently went scattered ways (see Binder, 1995).
literature
- Helmut Binder: Fate of the Weißenau library after the monastery was dissolved. In: Helmut Binder (Ed.): 850 Years of Premonstratensian Abbey Weissenau 1145–1195. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0414-1 , pp. 489-505.
- Elke Wenzel: The medieval library of the Abbey of Weißenau. (= European university publications. Series 15: Classical languages and literatures 73) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32206-2 . (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1996).
- Bernd Martin Rohde: The copy book of Innozenz Bamberger: a manuscript from the Premonstratensian Abbey Weissenau (Ravensburg), created 1793–1804, today Pp.254.4 ° in the Central and University Library of Lucerne . Diploma thesis, postgraduate course paper curator at the Advanced Study Center of the University of Basel. [Self-published], Basel 2008 (67 pp.: Ill., Describes a manuscript from the private library of Bonaventura Brem and the probable route of this and several prints from Weissenau / Liebenau to Lucerne).
Web links
- Fonts by Bonaventura Brem are listed in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
- Klaus Graf: Upper Swabian aristocratic libraries. May 15, 2006, accessed on January 7, 2018 (On the fate of the Weißenau library).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brem, Bonaventure |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonaventure Abbas Minor Eye |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, last Reich prelate and abbot in Weissenau monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaufbeuren |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 4, 1818 |
| Place of death | Weißenau |