Cornel Dora

Cornel Dora (* 1963 ) is a Swiss historian , English scholar and collegiate librarian from St. Gallen .

Life

Dora was elected to this office by the Administrative Council (the executive branch of the diocese of St. Gallen ) on November 1, 2013 , after having worked as a deputy monastery librarian in St. Gallen from 1996-2001.

He received his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1993/94 on the subject of Augustinus Egger von St. Gallen, 1833–1906: a bishop between the culture war, social question and modernism conflict .

Works (selection)

When books are “right”: Jusitia and her helpers in manuscripts from the St. Gallen Abbey Library. Catalog of the annual exhibition, St. Gallen Abbey Library, November 30, 2014 to November 8, 2015. Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen, ISBN 978-3-905906-14-1 .
with Franz Xaver Bischof: Local church on the way: the diocese of St. Gallen 1847–1997. Festschrift for the hundred and fiftieth year of its existence. With a contribution by Fabrizio Brentini. Verlag am Klosterhof, St, Gallen, ISBN 978-3-906616-43-8 .
(Ed.): Schepenese : The Egyptian mummy in the St. Gallen Abbey Library. Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen, ISBN 3-90661645-2 .

Father for the poor: Otmar and the beginnings of the St. Gallen monastery. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-905906-33-2 .

Web links

Literature by and about Cornel Dora in the catalog of the German National Library
Oldest monastery plan in St. Gallen on YouTube , accessed on April 25, 2019. Cornel Dora on the importance of the St. Gallen monastery plan in an article in Sternstunde Philosophie , 2017

Individual evidence

↑ Cornel Dora at the head of the St. Gallen Abbey Library . srf.ch. February 21, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
↑ Cornel Dora: Augustinus Egger von St. Gallen, 1833-1906: a bishop between culture war, social question and modernism conflict . Diss. Phil. I Zurich, 1993/94, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-908048-23-0 , p. 668 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ernst Tremp	Librarian of St. Gallen since 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Dora, Cornel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss historian, English scholar and collegiate librarian from St. Gallen
DATE OF BIRTH	1963

[1] Cornel Dora at the head of the St. Gallen Abbey Library . srf.ch. February 21, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2010.

[2] Cornel Dora: Augustinus Egger von St. Gallen, 1833-1906: a bishop between culture war, social question and modernism conflict . Diss. Phil. I Zurich, 1993/94, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-908048-23-0 , p. 668 .