Eugen Gebele

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Abbot President Eugen Gebele OSB

Eugen Gebele OSB (born April 10, 1836 in Osterbuch , today a district of Laugna ; † August 8, 1903 in Augsburg ) was a Catholic priest, Benedictine abbot and abbot president of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation .

Life

The son of a carpenter was born as Ernst Gebele in the Swabian Osterbuch and attended high school near St. Stephan in Augsburg . Gebele studied theology at Dillingen University and was ordained a priest on July 21, 1861 . Initially a secular priest, he worked as a chaplain in Langenreichen and Marktoberdorf , and from 1863 at St. Maximilian in Augsburg.

In 1868 the clergyman joined the St. Stephan Abbey in Augsburg and became a Benedictine . On June 6, 1869, Gebele took the religious vows and was given the name Eugene .

In 1870 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Munich. From that year until 1889, Gebele taught philosophy, history and geography at the Augsburg high school near Sankt Stephan. As the successor to Priest Georg Razinger, he took over the role of preacher at the study church for the three Munich high schools by a ministerial resolution of March 21, 1869. With a rescipt of January 17, 1871, he was relieved of this position upon request; His successor was the priest Georg Schmiduber, beneficiary of St. Peter in Munich. Because of a sore throat, he finally had to give up teaching.

On March 11, 1889, he was elected Abbot of St. Stephan of Augsburg, and on April 28 of that year he received the benediction . At the same time he was also the prior of the branch monastery Ottobeuren . In 1897 Gebele was promoted to Abbot President of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation, i.e. the highest-ranking Benedictine in Bavaria. He held all offices until his death. Eugen Gebele died completely unexpectedly on August 8, 1903, after a short period of malaise with a heartbeat , as the obituary puts it.

He published several historical treatises. The best known is the work published in 1870: Life and Work of Bishop Hermann von Augsburg .

literature

  • Christof Paulus: Father Eugen Gebele as historian , 2009 (available in the Augsburg city archive)
  • Augsburger Postzeitung , entertainment paper (supplement) No. 66, of August 22, 1903: obituary with photo

Web links

  • Eugen Gebele in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Linsmayer (ed.): Annual report on the K. Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1868/69. F. Straub, Munich 1869, p. 26
  2. ^ Anton Linsmayer (ed.): Annual report on the K. Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1870/71. F. Straub, Munich 1871, p. 26
  3. ^ Digital scan of the book
predecessor Office successor
Raphael Mertl Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Stephan Augsburg
1889–1903 		Theobald Labhardt
Rupert Mutzl Abbot praeses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation
1897–1903 		Johannes Leo von Mergel
personal data
SURNAME Gebele, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebele, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Benedictine abbot and Bavarian abbot president
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Laugna , district of Osterbuch
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1903
Place of death augsburg