Bonifaz Woehrmüller

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Bonifaz Wöhrmüller OSB (born December 15, 1885 in Altötting , † October 25, 1951 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and the fifth abbot of St. Boniface's Abbey in Munich.

Life

Wöhrmüller was born as Franz Wöhrmüller in Altötting. He grew up with his two siblings in Munich, where his father had found work. After graduating from the Ludwigsgymnasium, he went to the scholastic school in Metten and in 1904 joined the St. Boniface Abbey in Munich; there he was given the religious name Boniface . This was followed by a study of theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , the solemn profession on October 4, 1908 and the ordination to priesthood on June 16, 1909 in St. Anna by the Apostolic Nuncio Andreas Frühwirth . Wöhrmüller worked as a cooperator and catechist in St. Bonifaz from 1909 to 1915, as a preacher from 1915 to 1919, from 1915 also as novice master and from 1917 as prior . After the death of Gregor Danner (abbot from 1904 to 1919), he was elected his successor on June 12, 1919. The abbot's benediction followed on July 20 . He became the first abbot of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation after the end of the monarchy in Bavaria .

Wöhrmüller died in Munich in 1951 and was buried in the crypt of St. Bonifaz.

The theological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1922.

His motto was Ambulemus in lumine - Let us walk in the light ( Isa 2, 5).

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

  • The royal commandment. Small chapters of charity , Verlag J. Kösel & F. Pustet, Kempten 1921.
  • God's favorite devotion , J. Pfeiffer, Munich 1922.
  • Good news. A little book about good will , Ars sacra publishing house, Munich 1929.
  • Manly Christianity. Thoughtful chapters for men and women , Kösel & Pustet Munich 1934.
  • (Author), Burchard Housen (translation), Meinrad Hennus (translation), Het Koninklijk gebod , S. Franciscus Dr., Mechelen 1935.
  • (Author), Ulla Vedel Berrum (translation), En liden Bog om den gode vilje (= Pauluskredsen, Paulus-Kredsens skrifter, Series 3, Number 3), Paulus-Kredsen København 1935.
  • (Author), Giorgio Zunini (translation), La lieta novella , Morcelliana, Brescia 1959.

Journal articles (selection)

Reception of the latter of the two articles

  • Irmingard Böhm, literary trailblazers of secularization , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order, year 94, 1983, pp. 518-537.
  • Harm Klueting , Catholic Enlightenment - Enlightenment in Catholic Germany (= Studies on the 18th Century, Volume 15), Meiner, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-7873-1107-6 , pp. 193–194. available online

Literature on Bonifaz Wöhrmüller

  • Brigitta Klemenz (Ed.): Living stones. St. Boniface in Munich, 150 years of Benedictine abbey and parish; an exhibition by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Boniface Munich and Andechs and the Bavarian Main State Archives on the 150th anniversary of the foundation by King Ludwig I .; Munich, November 17, 2000 to January 14, 2001 . Archive of the St. Bonifaz Abbey, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-921635-60-8 (exhibition catalogs of the Bavarian State Archives; 42).
  • Article Wöhrmüller, Bonifaz , in: Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography), version of September 18, 2011, available online
  • Anselm Bilgri , Bonifaz Wöhrmüller, Abbot of St. Bonifaz in Munich (1885–1951), in: Georg Schwaiger , (ed.), Christenleben im Wandel der Zeit, Vol. 2: Pictures of life from the history of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Munich 1987, pp. 408-421.
  • Brigitta Klemenz, Abbot Bonifaz Wöhrmüller - Fifth Abbot of St. Bonifaz , available online in: http://sankt-bonifaz.de (last accessed: January 12, 2018).
  • St. Bonifaz - Geschichte, in: http://www.sankt-bonifaz.de (last accessed on: July 3, 2013). Online since: June 4, 2012
  • NN, in: 'Critical Online Edition of the Nunciature Reports Eugenio Pacellis (1917–1929)', URL: <www.pacelli-edition.de/Biographie/29148> (Date January 12, 2018) Last change: July 31, 2013
predecessor Office successor
Gregor Danner Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Boniface in Munich and Andechs Monastery
1919–1951 		Hugo Lang
personal data
SURNAME Woehrmüller, Boniface
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and fifth abbot of St. Boniface (Munich)
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1951
Place of death Munich