Florian Watzl

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Florian Karl Watzl OCist (born November 4, 1870 in Aigen im Mühlkreis , † February 11, 1915 in Heiligenkreuz ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian, archivist of the Heiligenkreuz monastery and church historian .

life and work

Florian Watzl grew up in a parish of the Norbertine on. After graduating from the State High School in Linz , a canon from Schlägl Abbey sent him to Heiligenkreuz , where he began his novitiate on August 24, 1889 and was ordained a priest on July 25, 1894 . Abbot Gregor Pöck acted as his primary preacher .

From 1894 to 1900 Watzl was a teacher at the Heiligenkreuzer Knabenkonvikt , in 1902 he was appointed his successor in the library and archive of the monastery by the newly elected Abbot Gregor Pöck .

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1903, from 1904, he was a lecturer in Christian art history, church history , canon law and, at times, the New Testament at the Institutum Theologicum in Heiligenkreuz. From 1905 to 1906 Watzl was doing research in Rome at Campo Santo Teutonico .

He was a member of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna and belonged to the Austrian Leo Society , on whose behalf he researched papal cameras in the 13th century. Diagnosed with esophageal cancer in autumn 1914, Florian Watzl was a preacher until shortly before his death and gave his last sermon on February 11, 1915.

Works

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