Bonifaz Rüedlinger

Bonifaz Rüedlinger (* 1587 ; † November 24, 1627 ) was the librarian of the St. Gallen monastery from 1624 to 1627 .

Life

Bonifaz was the son of Heinrich Rüedlinger from Sidwald in Toggenburg and Katharina Geiger. Two of his sisters and one of his nieces were Franciscans , and another sister entered the Dominican order . He made his profession on September 29, 1604 in the monastery of St. Gallen . He then studied philosophy, mathematics and theology in Dillingen , among others with the well-known Jesuit Jeremias Drexel . In 1608 he was ordained a subdeacon in Dillingen , and in 1609 in Constance he was ordained a deacon . In December 1613 he was ordained a priest in Constance and was then active as a pastor first in St. Gallen, then from 1615 in Stein (Rothenflue). He died on November 24, 1627 at the age of forty of the consequences of a stroke and was buried in the Boniface crypt in the Fulda Cathedral .

Act

From 1618 to 1621 Bonifaz was governor in St. Gallen, then minister preacher and finally from 1624 monastery librarian and monastery master builder. He led the renovation of the Gallus minster as well as the new construction of the St. Otmarskirche and the sacristy, drafted the plans for a new monastery building in St. Gallen and a model for the new building in St. Johann . He enriched the cultural life in the monastery through his activities as Kapellmeister, music teacher and chorale writer. He also knew how to embroider precious altar covers and wrote some comedic poems. In 1626 he was sent to Fulda together with six other St. Gallen conventuals , where he became a preacher in the Church of the Redeemer.

literature

• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, p. 274 f., No. 224.
• Franz Weidmann : History of the library of St. Gallen from its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the millennial jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 80.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jodocus Metzler	Librarian of St. Gallen 1624–1627	Beat Keller