Conrad Fischer

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people of the same name see Konrad Fischer .

Conrad Fischer (born November 24, 1631 in Krenkingen ; † June 6, 1701 in Forbes ) was provost of the Augustinian Canons' monastery in Forbes in South Bohemia , today Borovany, Czech Republic from 1677 to 1701 .

Life

Conrad Fischer was born on November 24, 1631 in Krenkingen as the son of the surgeon Caspar Fischer . He should be the last of the five children who outlived their father. An epitaph-style inscription can be found in Fischer's book on the history of Borovany Monastery and was entered there after his death by the subsequent provost, Christian Preidfelder, who came from Slavkovský les.

The emigration of Conrad Fischer, who, like his brother, Johannes Fischer , traveled to Austria to follow a spiritual calling, should therefore have taken place at the end of the 1640s. His ordination took place on February 13, 1651, before he turned 20. His trace can be found again as a canon and professor in Klosterneuburg Abbey on the Danube. In 1663 he was seconded with other canons to the Borowan colony, Bohemia, where he was elected on April 21, 1677 as the successor to Georg Jauda as the second provost since the foundation of the monastery.

In 1682 he had the Žižka oak felled at the extinct Žižka farms in a symbolic action . This served the Czech population as a memorial for the Hussite leader Jan Žižka . In their place he built a chapel dedicated to John the Baptist . This received the Latin inscription Hic locus olim exosus Joannis nativitate Zizkae, nunc ex asse nativitati Joannis Baptistae (“This place hated for the sake of the birth of Johann Žižka is now entirely dedicated to the birth of John the Baptist”). During his time as provost, from 1693 he wrote a book on the history of the monastery, which is currently archived as a manuscript in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň and comprises 216 pages.

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• Pharmacopoeia of Caspar Fischer, Krenkingen, manuscript from 1617 (year of binding).
• Jaroslaus Schaller: Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia: it describes all cities, towns, lordships, castles, country estates, noble residences, monasteries, villages, as well as ruined castles and cities ... Budweiser district. Volume 13, Prague / Vienna 1789.
• Johann Müller: The most interesting stories from Bohemian history in chronological order. Prague 1840 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Johann Trajer: Historical-statistical description of the Diocese of Budweis. Budweis 1862.
• Herbert Pexa: A travel expense report from 1683 from Forbes (Borovany) in southern Bohemia via Upper Austria to Passau and back. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 139, Linz 1994, pp. 47–78 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Anton Schubert: Documents and registers from the former archives of the monasteries in Bohemia that were abolished by Emperor Joseph II. Wagner University Bookstore, Innsbruck 1901.
• Alois Jirásek: Staré pověsti české. 2011.
• Tomáš Hunčovský, Petr z Lindy a založení augustiniánského kláštera v Borovanech. Mezi tradicí a výzkumem, in: Martin Gaži (ed.), Památky jižních Čech 8, České Budějovice 2017, pp. 83–98, s. P. 83.