Boso of Merseburg

Boso († November 1, 970 in Bavaria ) was a Benedictine monk (OSB) and the first bishop of Merseburg .

Nothing is known about Boso's birth, except that he was of Bavarian origin. He was trained in the Regensburg Cathedral Monastery of Sankt Emmeram .

On behalf of Emperor Otto I , Boso evangelized east of the Saale in the Sorbian area . For this he was given ample church income by the ruler. Because he knew the language of his mission area, he was successful in preaching the Christian message.

In a forest near Zeitz , Boso had a stone church built at a place he named after his name ( Buosenrod , mentioned in a document in 976). A Sorbian holy grove was cleared for the construction of the church.

Boso was ordained the first bishop of Merseburg in 968 by Adalbert von Magdeburg . He died in 970 and was buried in the Johanneskirche in Merseburg.

He was beatified on November 1st or December 29th as a memorial day .

literature

• Central Europe around 1000, Exhibition Guide, Volume 2 . Ed .: Alfried Wieczoreck u. Hans-Martin Hinz, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1544-8
• Jakob Torsy (Ed.): Lexicon of the German saints, blessed, venerable and godly. JP Bachem, Cologne 1959; meanwhile: Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht: The big name day calendar. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i. B. 2002, ISBN 3-451-27308-X
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Boso. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 712.

Web links

• Wilhelm Gaß :  Boso . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 188 f.
• Schlesinger, Walter:  Boso. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 482 ( digitized version ).
• Peter Neumeister: Boso . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Bishop of Merseburg 968–970	Giselher