Gerhard Hess (historian)

Frontispiece of the Prodromus Monumentorum Guelficorum with a portrait of Abbot Dominikus Schnitzer and two views of Weingarten Monastery, 1781

Gerhard Hess , also Latinized Gerardus Hess (born October 11, 1731 in Oberstetten near Ochsenhausen, † December 4, 1802 in Thuringia ) was a German Benedictine monk and historian.

Hess studied philosophy in Innsbruck and entered Weingarten monastery in 1750 . In 1752 he made his profession , in 1755 he was ordained a priest. Hess taught philosophy and theology in Weingarten. In 1777 he was appointed prior, from 1785 he was governor in the monastic rule of Blumenegg .

Hess published two papers on the history of the Guelphs and the Weingarten Monastery. A continuation failed because he no longer had the archive and library of the monastery in Blumenegg available.

Hess died in 1802, a year before the Weingarten monastery was forcibly dissolved by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and was buried in the Thuringian parish church.

Works

• Positiones ex Logica et Metaphysica , Altdorf (today: Weingarten) 1760.
• Prodromus Monumentorum Guelficorum Seu Catalogus Abbatum Imperialis Monasterii Weingartensis , Augsburg 1781 ( digitized ).
• Monumentorum Guelficorum pars historica seu scriptores rerum Guelficarum ... , Kempten 1784 ( digitized , digitized ).

literature

• Johann Jacob Gradmann : The learned Swabia or Lexicon of the Swabian writers who are now living . Self-published, Ravensburg 1802, pp. 234–235 (improved entry from Meusel / Hamberger: Das schehre Teutschland ).