Georg Michael Gaisser

Georg Michael Gaisser II (born September 16, 1595 in Ingoldingen , † August 19, 1655 in Villingen ) was an abbot of the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest , prior of the Amtenhausen monastery and Rippoldsau priory and chronicle writer .

Life

In Ingoldingen he entered the local monastery, which was subordinate to St. Georgen, and became a monk. In 1621 he became prior in the monastery Amtenhausen, in 1627 prior in the monastery Rippoldsau. In the same year, 1627, he was elected abbot of the St. Georgen monastery, which had sought and found refuge in the town of Villingen in front of Austria since 1536 . He died at the age of 60 from the facial rose from which he had long suffered.

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His diaries in two volumes from the period from 1621 to 1655 are partially preserved, Franz Simon von Pfaffenhofen purchased the manuscripts from a Swiss antiquarian and handed them over to the Karlsruhe archive; some of them were already published by Franz Joseph Mone in his source collection (p. 159 to 528). For the 900th anniversary in 1984, the Villingen city archivist Josef Fuchs republished the diaries in typewritten reproduction.

literature

• Franz Joseph Mone, Collection of Sources for Baden State History , 1854; Volume 2
• Josef Fuchs (arrangement), Villingen city archive (ed.): Diary of Abbot Michael Gaisser of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Georg in Villingen * 1595 † 1655 , 1984, two volumes.