Chrysostom Hanthaler

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Chrysostomus Hanthaler (born January 14, 1690 in Mehrnbach , Upper Austria ; † September 2, 1754 in Lilienfeld , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian Cistercian monk , historian and numismatist .

P. Chrysostomus Hanthaler

Johannes Adam Hanthaler was born as an unmarried child, the son of a farmer's girl. After studying law, philosophy and theology in Salzburg , he joined the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld in 1716 and took the religious name Chrysostom. He was ordained a priest on May 1, 1718 and soon after became master of novices and subprior . He achieved great merits as a monastery librarian through cataloging work. In 1733 he was transferred to Marienberg in Burgenland, which at that time belonged to Hungary, for a few years , returned to Lilienfeld in 1737 and served his abbot Chrysostom Wieser as provincial secretary. During his entire life as a religious he researched the history of the Lilienfeld monastery; Today, 22 manuscript volumes in the monastery archive bear witness to this, as do numerous publications. His main work, the Fasti Campililienses , provides a comprehensive history of the Lilienfeld Monastery that is closely linked to the history of the country and the nobility. Today, Hanthaler is regarded as a highly gifted representative of the early enlightenment in the Church , but the value of his work is significantly impaired by the adoption and citation of sources he invented on Austrian and monastery history in the Babenberg era. In 1742 he had edited the falsified annals of a monk Ortilo , who cited a missing work by a chaplain of Margrave Adalbert, Alold von Pöchlarn . Already contested by contemporaries, the sensational source finds were proven to be forgeries in the 19th century, but the possibility was left open that Hanthaler still had a real Lilienfeld source available for individual information, which has since been lost.

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  • Fasti Campililienses. 2 volumes (in 4). Ilger, Linz 1747–1754, (digital copies: Volume 1, 1 , Volume 1, 2 , Volume 2, 1 , Volume 2, 2 ).
  • Fastorum Campililiensum Continuatio seu recensus diplomatico-genealogico Archivii Campililiensis. (Edited by Johann Ladislaus Pyrker ). 2 volumes. Beck, Vienna 1819–1820, (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
  • Notulæ anecdotæ e Chronica Illustris Stirpis Babenbergicæ in Osterrichia dominantis, Quam Vir Reverendus Aloldus de Peklarn, Serenissimi quondam Austriæ Marchionis Adalberti from Anno MXXXIV. usque ad annum MLVI. Capellanus conscripsit, a Fr. Ortilone Uno è primis Monachis Campiliensibus sub finem Seculi XII. excerptæ. Praxel, Krems 1742, ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME Hanthaler, Chrysostom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanthaler, Johannes Adam (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cistercian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Mehrnbach
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1754
Place of death Lily field