Burkhard Heer (librarian)

Burkhard Heer (born August 2, 1653 as Andreas Heer ; † October 14, 1707 ) was the librarian of the St. Gallen monastery from 1691 to 1705 .

Live and act

Father Burkhard came from Rorschach . On June 29, 1671 he made his profession in the monastery of St. Gallen . He was ordained a subdeacon in 1676, a deacon in 1677 and a priest on September 19, 1682. The first Mass was followed on 11 October 1,682th

From 1691 to 1705 Burkhard Heer headed the St. Gallen monastery library . When Father Hermann Schenk took over the library office again in 1705, he became a sub-librarian. Together with Schenk he worked on a library catalog that should also have included books from the monastery libraries in Rorschach and St. Johann . Father Burkhard mastered the Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian languages ​​and wrote a (now lost) text on Hebrew psalms .

literature

• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, p. 338, no.379.
• 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. 85 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hieronymus Lindenmann	Librarian of St. Gallen 1691–1705	Columban Bishop