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Gallus Kopf († July 3, 1519 ) was the librarian of the St. Gallen monastery .

Kopf was one of the professed in St. Gallen under Abbot Gotthard Giel von Glattburg , who died in 1504. In 1504 he was one of the conventuals who elected Franz von Gaisberg as the new abbot. In 1506 he appointed him subdean. His office was that of the disciplinarian. He was supposed to encourage students to study and to good discipline, to protect them from drunkenness and all frivolity, as often as necessary, to rehearse them and to warn them to support the cellar master in looking after the dining room.

From 1505 he was in charge of the monastery library. Gallus Kopf took part in the canonization of St. Notker in 1514 .

literature

• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, No. 67, p. 241.
• Franz Weidmann : History of the library of St. Gallen from its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the millennial jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 55 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Gallus head in: Professes under Abbot Gotthard Giel von Glattburg (1491-1504).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   World Heritage Abbey Archives, Canton St. Gallen.
2. ↑ Communications on the late medieval educational history of St. Gallen. Historischer Verein des Kantons St. Gallen (publisher), Fehr'sche Buchhandlung, 1939, p. 20. ( limited preview in Google book search)
3. ^ Paul Staerkle: The pilgrimage to "Our Lady in the Gate" in the Minster of St. Gallen (1475–1529). in: Journal for Swiss Church History (= Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique suisse) Vol. 21 (1927), p. 171 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Berchtold Zimmermann	Librarian from St. Gallen at the beginning of the 16th century.	Anton Vogt