Corbinian gardener

Corbinian gardener (* 14. June 1751 Schwaz in Tyrol ; † 24. May 1824 in Ischl ) was Benedictine - Father , a university professor in Salzburg , lawyer and historian.

Live and act

Corbinian Gärtner, son of Anton Dominik Gärtner, carer in Tratzberg , and Anna Steur, attended the Jesuit high schools in Hall in Tirol and Innsbruck . This was followed by a study of philosophy in Salzburg. He entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg in 1769 , made his profession in 1770 , studied law and theology here and was ordained a priest in 1774. He initially worked as a tutor in the monastery and as confessor of the Ursulines . With his younger brother, Father Johann Evangelist Hofer (1757-1817), he went on a long study trip through Europe, visiting Würzburg , Mainz , Wetzlar , Göttingen and Paris . During their visit to Paris in 1789 , the two travelers witnessed the storming of the Bastille .

After his return, Corbinian Gärtner was promoted to Dr. theol. and Doctor iuris utriusque . At the same time he received the professorship for canon law at the University of Salzburg . From 1792 he also read about diplomacy and German private law , from 1804 to 1807 also about civil procedure law and feudal law . He was the first professor at the Benedictine University to teach canon law in German and no longer in Latin - despite resistance from the Salzburg court. From 1807 to 1810 he was the last rector of the University of Salzburg. As rector, he administered the university fund with great care during the extremely difficult times of the coalition wars; The library and the physical cabinet were considerably expanded. After the university was closed, he taught at the Lyceum for a short time . He was also active as a legal practitioner: in 1805 he became a real court judge, acted as a councilor to the electoral supreme judicial authority and, under Bavarian rule, to the second instance. On June 28, 1812, after resigning from his teaching post, he returned to his monastery and ran the monastery library.

On May 24, 1824, he died during a spa stay in Ischl , in whose brine baths he had sought a cure from jaundice in vain. He was buried in the local cemetery there.

It went down in Salzburg historiography as the continuation of Judas Thaddäus Zauner's chronicle . His biographer Schulte judges: "He is not an excellent writer, but shows great diligence and a historical basis" .

Works

• De jure capitulorum Germaniae condendi statuta , Salzburg 1794.
• Academic attempt on Vogtey law in general with application to the h. Archbishopric Salzburg , Salzburg 1794.
• Henry IV's letter of grace for Austria , 1795;
• Apology for the academic attempt on bailiwick law in general with application to the Archbishopric of Salzburg , 1796.
• Apology of the academic constitution , Salzburg 1796.
• De jure s. Pontificis in erectione academiarum Germ. cathol. 1795?
• Corpus iuris eccles. catholicorum novioris, quod per Germaniam obtinet, collegit. rec. atque notis illustr. 2 parts, Salzburg 1797 and 1799.
• History and constitution of the military order of Ruperti knights, etc., established in 1701 for the Salzburg land nobility , Salzburg 1802. Digitized
• The special Austrian canon law in aphorisms , Salzburg 1807.
• Life story of Prince Hieronymus Franziskus de Paula , Archbishop of Salzburg , 1812.
• Salzburg's learned conversations , 4 booklets, Salzburg 1812 ff.
• The Lack of Catholic Priests for the Lack of Bishops , Salzburg 1818.
• Introduction to common and German church law with special consideration for Bavaria and Austria. According to the system of the royal Bavarian spiritual councilor Maurus Jakob v. Schenkl , Augsburg 1816.
• New Chronicle of Salzburg , continuation of the work started by Judas Thaddäus Zauner . Salzburg 1816-1826.
  • ( Part IX : Salzburg (Mayr) 1818).
  • History of the peasant emigration from Salzburg under Archbishop Firmian. = Chronicle of Salzburg, Volume 10 = New Chronicle of Salzburg, fourth part. Salzburg (Verlag Franz Xaver Duyle) 1821.
• Prayer and edification books

literature

• Gerald Hirtner and Christoph Brandhuber: Between Bastille and Benedictine University . Rector P. Corbinian Gärtner OSB of St. Peter in Salzburg (1751–1824). In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches . Vol. 122 (2011), pp. 369-479.
• Johann Friedrich von Schulte :  gardener, Corbinian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 377.
• Gardener P. Corbinian. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 389.

Web links

• The rectors of the Benedictine University of Salzburg (1622–1811) on the website of the Salzburg University Library