Franz Anton Rohrer

Franz Anton Rohrer (born November 18, 1832 in Stans , Nidwalden , † September 3, 1882 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss church historian, priest and from 1872 to 1873 librarian in the St. Gallen Abbey Library .

Life

Franz Rohrer came from a family in the Buochs ​​community in Nidwalden. He received his first higher classes in philosophy at the monastery school in Einsiedeln . After a brief predilection for medicine, he turned to theology and went to Tübingen . The conclusion he was in seminary to Chur (now Theological College Chur ). In Einsiedeln he became a member of the Swiss Student Association , of which he was president from 1854 to 1856. At the beginning he belonged to the right wing of the association, which saw salvation in the denominational march. Under the influence of Felix Gmür , with whom he had a lifelong friendship, a change took place in him; he became an implacable opponent of his former ideas. After the club newspaper Späte Rosen had established itself, in 1857 he founded the follow -up newspaper MONTH-Rosen with like-minded people , making him the first German editor of the club organ.

Rohrer was ordained a priest in 1856. He was then prefect and professor at the Schwyz college . In 1858 he became a member of the committee of the reorganized SZZ. From 1860 to 1867 he was pastor in Kerns . After working as the rector of the Altdorf Cantonal School from 1867 to 1872, he became a collegiate librarian in St. Gallen in 1872 . In 1873 he was appointed as a history professor at the Cantonal School of Lucerne . In Lucerne, where he was also canon , he became a member of the historical association of V Orte in 1866 and was also the actuary of the journal Der Geschichtsfreund - communications of the historical association of the five cities of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug , which he after Death of Alois Lütolf continued to publish.

In 1882 Rohrer was able to clarify through the first correct analysis of the document from 840 that the Lucerne monastery was not handed over to Murbach by King Pippin , but that this document from 840 was merely a confirmation of a gift from Pippin by men or their services to the Lucerne Monastery acted. Like his colleague Josef Leopold Brandstetter , Rohrer believed that Lucerne was originally a Murbach branch and was founded as such around 730/40.

Fonts (selection)

• Pope and ban. A word for understanding. Räber, Lucerne 1860.
• What special difficulties stand in the way of a prosperous development of the elementary school in the mountain areas and how can they best be overcome? Gull, Zurich 1863.
• The " Christian castle law " and the "Christian association". A contribution to Swiss politics from 1527 to 1531. Räber, Lucerne 1876.
• Reform efforts of the Catholics in the Swiss quarter of the diocese of Constance 1492–1531. In: The history friend. 33 (1878), pp. 1-67.
• The so-called Waldmann Concordat. In: Yearbook for Swiss History . 4 (1879). ( pdf )
• The beginnings of Lucerne. In: The history friend. , 37 (1882) pp. 269-288.

literature

• Canon and Prof. Franz Rohrer. Necrolog. In: Month-Roses , IX. Booklet, p. 160.

Web links

• Literature by Franz Rorer in the convent library
• Literature by and about Franz Anton Rohrer in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spelling of the family name also Rorer
2. ^ The Abbey of St. Gallen. Contributions to the Baroque Age. Thorbecke, 1990, p. 78. ISBN 978-3-7995-0392-1
3. ^ Sebastian Grüter: History of the Swiss student association. Walter, 1925, p. 302.
4. ^ ^{A b} Correspondence between Philipp Anton von Segesser (1817–1888). Benziger, 1987, p. 183, footnote 5.
5. ^ Franz Rohrer, first German editor of the month roses. In: Sebastian Grüter: History of the Swiss Student Association. Walter, 1925, pp. 144-145.
6. ^ Swiss journal for history . 7 (1957), Allgemeine Geschichtforschende Gesellschaft der Schweiz , 1957, p. 46 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Baptist Näf	Librarian from St. Gallen 1872–1873	Otto Zardetti