Bruno Albers

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Bruno Albers ( OSB ) (born June 29, 1866 in Adenau as Paul Maria Franz Albers , † March 19, 1941 in Beuron ) was a German Benedictine , church historian and university professor .

Life

Paul Albers was the son of the secret medical councilor Paul Ludwig Oskar Albers. His grandfather was the medical professor Friedrich Albers at the University of Bonn .

After attending high school in Essen Paul Albers went to All Saints in 1887 in the novitiate of the Benedictine Abbey of Beuron , where he of Abbot Maurus Wolter the religious name of St. Bruno got on the timing and on All Saints Day 1891 a year, the Eternal profession took off . From 1888 to 1992 he studied philosophy and theology in Beuron and was ordained a priest on September 14, 1892. After further special theological studies at the Collegio Sant'Anselmo in Rome, he became Dr. theol. PhD. From 1895 Father Bruno lived in the Archabbey of Monte Cassino in Italy, where he taught church history, Christian archeology and patrology at the seminary there under Archabbot Bonifaz Krug from 1897 . His research was particularly focused on the monastic and monastic habits of the Middle Ages. In 1912 he was prior of the Italian Abbey of Farfa . After Italy entered the war in 1915, he was expelled as an alleged spy. He returned to Germany to study classical philology at the University of Bonn from 1915 to 1918 . From 1919 to 1932 he worked as a religion teacher (since 1921 teacher) in Bonn, Königswinter and Siegburg. Since 1922 he was incardinated as a diocesan priest in the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1931 he retired as a teacher and then lived in Herrig , from where he worked as a clergyman in Merzig, Bonn and Pützchen . In 1939 Bruno Albers returned to his professed monastery in Beuron in the Danube Valley , where he died two years later as a house wafer .

Works (selection)

  • Consuetudines Monasticae Vol. IV. Consuetudines fructuarienses necnon cystrensis in Anglia monasterii et congregationis vallymbrosanae . Soc. Ed. Castri Casini, Montecassino 1911.
  • Investigations into the oldest monastic habits: A contribution to the history of the Benedictine order of the X. – XII. Century . Lentner, Munich 1905, reprint Bremen 2013.

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SURNAME Albers, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albers, Paul Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Adenau
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1941
Place of death Beuron