Friedrich Pfluger

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Friedrich Pfluger (born March 5, 1772 in Solothurn ; † January 29, 1848 in St. Urban Monastery , Pfaffnau ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman.

Life

Friedrich Pfluger was the youngest of nine children of the carpenter Urs Jakob Pfluger (born July 8, 1729 in Solothurn; † March 8, 1800) and his wife Anna Maria Kieffer (born December 3, 1730 in Altreu; ​​† unknown) in Solothurn. He attended the Jesuit college and then the grammar school in Solothurn. After attending grammar school, he resigned due to an invitation from Abbot Karl Ambros Glutz-Rüchti (born September 13, 1748 [with baptismal name Urs Karl Heinrich Felix Franziskus] in Solothurn; † October 28, 1825 in St. Urban, Pfaffnau) 1791 in St. Urban Monastery in the novitiate of the Ciestly Order . On January 1, 1792, Urs Viktor Pfluger made his religious vows and was given the monastery name Friedrich; on August 27, 1797 he was ordained a priest. During his stay in the monastery he studied philosophy, mathematics, physics and theology.

In 1806, the government of Lucerne asked the abbot Ambrosius to file accounts from 1803 (when the monastery began to self-govern) until 1806. This did not recognize the right to billing and the abbot was given a date until September 1808. In response to a renewed request to postpone the abbot, the government arranged for him to be arrested on September 23, 1808 because it assessed the behavior as a refusal to obey. The arrest took place in Lucerne. Due to the obviously unjustified actions of the government, there were no weighty reasons that would justify a justification, there was a stir and unrest in the population, but Abbot Ambrosius remained in custody. He was also not allowed to re-enter the monastery. The fate of the aged abbot caused a sensation all over Switzerland at the time , because he was well known as a scholar in mathematics, physics and hydraulic engineering, plus the fact that his brother Peter Glutz-Ruchti (born September 18, 1754 in Solothurn; † 29 March 1835 ibid) was the Landammann of Switzerland. The convent of St. Urban surrendered after a second decision of the government administration of the monastery a committee of three Conventual. Friedrich Pfluger was represented in this committee as chairman, who led the administration to the satisfaction of the convention. Abbot Ambrosius renounced his abbot status in 1813 and returned to his monastery as a simple religious priest .

On February 10, 1813, Friedrich Pfluger was elected abbot in St. Urbans. One of his first official acts was to ask the government for permission to accept novices, which he was allowed to do in 1814. In 1821 he founded a grammar school in the monastery, which, however, had to be closed in 1833 due to the new political conditions, "... because this monastery school no longer corresponds to the spirit of the advanced time in science". The inner monastery school was expanded at the same time, however, as Abbot Friedrich Pfluger acquired a selected collection of books and physical instruments. The collection of ancient Roman coins was also increased by half, making it one of the richest in Switzerland. The library, which had suffered greatly during the Swiss Revolution from 1798 to 1803, was increased by more than 4,000 volumes under him.

Abbot Friedrich Pfluger also owned a triple private collection of Swiss and papal coins. He had made a catalog himself for the papal coins, which contained biographical notes on the popes concerned and which was the largest collection in Switzerland at the time. In addition, the third collection was a collection of documents (“ Gatterer Collection ”), which had been created by Professors Gatterer (father and son). In 1838, after the death of the younger Gatterer, he was able to acquire this collection from his savings and, in addition to 4000 parchment documents, it also contained various script samples from the past centuries, interesting seals, seal sticks and many stamps.

Abbot Friederich Pfluger also promoted the musical development in St. Urban, so the monastery had Leopold Nägeli (born May 5, 1804 in St. Urban, Pfaffnau; † March 24, 1874 in Lucerne) a well-known composer and conductor. Friedrich Pfluger also made sure that a greenhouse was created for exotic plants. In 1841 he opened the teacher training institute, which lasted until 1848, but was then closed due to the political developments after the Sonderbund War .

Around 1830 the advances of radical Swiss liberalism towards an anti-clerical struggle, but above all against the monasteries, came to a head, so the government forbade St. Urban monastery to accept novices and sold part of the monastery goods against the will of the Convention. During this time the Trappist monk Ferdinand von Geramb stayed with his brothers because of the political situation in the monastery and with whom Ferdinand Pfluger became friends.

Friedrich Pfluger was Abbot General of the Swiss Cistercian Congregation for twelve years until it was repealed by the government. In 1847, after the fall of Lucerne, numerous federal troops were quartered in the monastery and a war contribution of 500,000 francs was imposed on the monastery .

In 1848, after the death of Abbot Friedrich Pfluger, the government forbade the election of a new abbot. Because the canton needed the monastery property to repay the special association costs, the monastery was dissolved.

Works

  • Sermon at the Brotherhood Festival of Mary, the painful Mother of God. Held in Sursee on April 12th in 1807. Thuringia, Lucerne 1807.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1850 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Waltraud Hörsch: Friedrich Pfluger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 2, 2010 , accessed October 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jolanda Cécile Schärli: Conspicuous religiosity: prayer healings, cases of possession and enthusiastic sects in Catholic and Reformed areas of Switzerland . disserta Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95425-016-5 ( google.de [accessed on October 17, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Swiss Church Newspaper . Räben, 1847 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Analecta Cisterciensia . Editiones Cistercienses, 1968 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Pfluger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1848
Place of death St. Urban Monastery (Pfaffnau municipality)