Edmund Götz (Benedictine)

Edmund Götz, lithograph by Gabriel Decker . 1844

Edmund Götz OSB (born March 18, 1792 in Sternberg , Moravia ; † April 28, 1862 in Vienna ; actually Joseph Götz ) was an Austrian Benedictine and politician .

Life

Götz joined the Wiener Schottenstift in 1811 after attending grammar school in Olomouc and the philosophical classes in Vienna . In 1814 he moved briefly to the Augustinian canons of Herzogenburg , but returned to the Scots the following year, where he made his profession in 1816 and was ordained a priest. From 1819 to 1830 he taught at Schottengymnasium the Grammatikalklassen . In 1826 he was appointed subprior and in 1830 prior of the Schottenstift - an office which he held until his death under the abbots Andreas Wenzel , Sigismund Schultes and Othmar Helferstorfer . In 1845 he was appointed to the Vienna archbishopric consistory . From 1847 he was also pastor of the monastery parish .

In the revolutionary year of 1848 Götz was elected to the newly formed municipal council of the city of Vienna . As a result, he was a member of deputations of the municipal council to Frankfurt am Main to the imperial administrator Archduke Johann and to Olomouc to the new Emperor Franz Joseph I. For his services he was made a citizen of Vienna, among other things, in 1850 he received the Knight's Cross of Franz-Joseph -Order .

Works

• Exercises in translating from German into Latin according to FW Döring's instructions . 2 volumes. Vienna 1824–1825.
• Vocabularium Graeco-Latinum cum duplici appendice brevis grammaticae Graecae . Vienna 1826 (2nd edition 1838).

literature

• Scriptores Ordinis S. Benedicti, qui 1750-1880 forunt in Imperio Austriaco-Hungarico . Vienna 1881, p. 139 f. ( online ).
• Albert Hübl: History of teaching in the Schotten Abbey in Vienna . Fromme, Vienna 1907, p. 140.