Gelasius Hieber

Gelasius Hieber

Gelasius Hieber (born September 22, 1671 in Dinkelsbühl ; † February 12, 1731 in Munich) was an Augustinian hermit and was called the best pulpit speaker in Bavaria .

After attending a Latin school, Hieber entered the Munich monastery of the Augustinian Hermits in 1691. From 1692 he studied at the University of Ingolstadt and then worked there and until 1705 in Regensburg as a preacher. From 1706 to 1724 he preached regularly in Munich in the Augustinian Church and was very popular. As an advocate of the Upper German literary language , the then slightly Bavarian written language in the Catholic South, he was (co-) editor of Parnassus Boicus , one of the first scientific German-language journals from 1722 to 1727 . There he turned u. a. against the Protestant poetics in the tradition of Martin Opitz and its linguistic basis, the (East) Middle German (generally referred to as Upper Saxon , as Luther German ). His goal was to elevate the Upper German literary language to the standard language of all of Germany, to a cultural language on a par with Latin and French. On the one hand, this should be based on the Upper German, especially the Bavarian electoral chancellery style; But above all, on the other hand, with this 'true Hoch-Teutschen' the Catholic-South German preaching style was supposed to take over the rule in the German-speaking area - a linguistic-political project with which Hieber the claims of the Wittelsbachers to the Roman-German imperial crown (that of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel registered) linguistically supported. A generation later, however, after a sometimes violent scholarly dispute, the (East) Central German-influenced written language of the Protestant north took over the function of a national German written language.

Gelasius Hieber later founded the Society for the Promotion of Spiritual Life in Munich , the forerunner of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works

Listings of Hieber's writings that should be handled with care include:

• [Agnellus Kandler]: Kurtze Constitution of Life ARP Gelasij Hieber Ordin. Hermit. S. Augustini appointed preacher in Munich , in: Newly continued Parnassus Boicus, Oder Bayrischer Musen-Berg […], 3rd assembly [1736], 17th report, pp. 57–78, here pp. 74–78.
• Johann Caspar Lippert: Continuation of the news from the former learned societies in Baiern , in: Treatises of the Churfürstlich-Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vol. 2, Munich 1764, 1st part, pp. 3–48, here p. 12f.
• Klement Alois Baader: The learned Baiern or lexicon of all writers who produced or nourished Baiern in the eighteenth century , Vol. 1 [no longer published], Nuremberg and Sulzbach 1804, Sp. 503–505.

Works by Hieber (selection):

• Echo of the wedding Te Deum Laudamus, held at the splendid entry of both the most luminous brides Caroli Alberti Churvnd Erb-Printzen der Landen zu Bayrn / and Mariæ Amaliæ Gebohrnen Ertz-Hertzogin from Austria / vnd Kayserlichen Printzessin […], Munich: Straub , 1722.
• Sanct Johannes-Seegen / Explained by the glorious Saint Benno bishop of Meissen in Saxony / at the high fiery celebration of his second Sanonizazions-Sæculi […], Munich: Straub, 1723.
• The one and sixtieth chapter Isaiæ of the Prophet laid out during the most solemn eight-day celebration of the thousand-year jubilee of the Hochgefürstet-Bischöflichen Domb-Haupt- und Mutter-Kirchen zu Freysing , Freising: Immel, 1725.
• Davidic sound and echoes of the Hundred One and Thirtieth Psalms, as Your High Princely Grace Joannes Franciscus des Heil. Rom. Reichs Prince and Bishop of Freysingen / etc. the magnificent choir chapels of the miraculous Gnaden-Bildnuss Mariæ in the [...] Stifft and Closter Ettal [...] on September 15, 1726. Highly inaugurated, and at the same time before Selber his second holy salvation and Mess-Opffer [...] sacrificed , Munich: Straub, 1726.
• Preached religious history / that is / Jesus Christ and his churches evidently presented from the beginning of the world to the end of time [...] Married preached to the people in public Cantzel / but now after the oratorical thread is loosened for more convenient use / in front of everyone in put this Les shape . 3 vol., Vol. 1 (1726) and 2 (1729) Augsburg and Dillingen: Bencard, vol. 3 (1733) Regensburg and Stadtamhof: Gastel.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ on this in detail Beck: The 'Strasbourg Oath' in the early modern period , 2014

literature

• Andreas Beck: Catholic-Bavarian prose propaganda in Opitzian-poetological tradition: Gelasius Hieber's "Sprach-Lehr" and "Von der Teutschen Poeterey" (1723-25) in the "Parnassus Boicus". In: Thomas Althaus and Nicola Kaminski (eds.): Rules of the game Baroque prose. Historical concepts and theoretical textures of “unbound speech” in the literature of the 17th century (= Simpliciana. Supplement 7). Lang, Bern 2012, pp. 309–332.
• Andreas Beck: The “Strasbourg Oaths” in the early modern period. Model study on pre- and early Germanistic discourse strategies (= Gratia. Vol. 52). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, on Parnassus Boicus pp. 125-311.
• Max Dreher: The Augustinian Hermits in Munich. in the age of the Reformation and the Baroque (16th to mid-18th century) (= studies on church history. Vol. 1). Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2003.
• Ludwig Hammermayer :  Hieber, Gelasius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 106 ( digitized version ).