Chrysostomus Stadler

Chrysostomos Stadler (born March 23, 1665 in Rothenthurm as Franz Karl Stadler , † May 18, 1721 in the provost of Sankt Gerold ) was a Swiss Benedictine priest .

Life

Chrysostomos Stadler was the son of the Schwyz councilor and landlord Mathias Stadler. He went to Einsiedeln monastery , where he made his profession on November 21, 1682 . He was ordained a priest on March 26, 1689. After Easter 1689 he became a teacher of rhetoric in Einsiedeln, and during Holy Week 1693 he was prefect of the monastery school. On September 23, 1693 he moved to Bellinzona as professor of philosophy . In 1696 he was again a teacher of rhetoric at the Einsiedeln monastery school and in the autumn of the same year he was promoted to professor of philosophy there. In 1700 he became professor of theology and confessor of the convent . He is said to have endeavored to upgrade science in the monastery.

Stadler was Chapter Secretary from April 1705 to July 1708. His brother Joseph Anton Stadler was the leader of the opposition movement against the aristocratic regime . As a consequence of the "Stadler trade" he was beheaded on September 17, 1708 in Schwyz . Chrysostomus Stadler is said to have been one of the intellectual heads and a brilliant speaker of the movement and therefore had to leave the Einsiedeln monastery after his brother was executed. In 1713 and 1714 he was pastor in Eschenz . In 1714 he again attracted attention with a sharp sermon, so that he was subsequently banished to the Saint Gerold provost. There he rose to be provost . Stadler also stood out for his commitment to poor relief.

Works (selection)

• In 1708 he wrote a political treatise in which he theoretically justified popular sovereignty.
• Varia quaesita circa potestatem Confessariorum Einsidlensium mota et resoluta. Einsiedeln 1715.
• Quesnellus Elarvatus per 39 antitheses. Ex quibus contentos in 101 damnatis Propositionibus errores haud difficulter depraehendere licebit. Schadler, Einsiedeln 1718.

literature

• Joseph Tschudi: Einsiedlische Chronik or history of the monastery and the pilgrimage to Maria Einsiedeln. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1823, p. 186 f.
• Fabian Brändle: The democratic Bodin: Joseph Anton Stadler: landlord, democrat, witch hunter. In: Swiss Journal for History , Volume 58 (2008), pp. 140–142.
• Fabian Brändle: Stadler, Chrysostomos. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 10, 2013 , accessed May 2, 2019 .

Web links

• Entry in the profession book in the monastery archive in Einsiedeln