Gerold Brandenberg

Gerold Brandenberg (born January 3, 1733 in Zug , † January 4, 1818 in St. Fiden ) was the collegiate librarian of the St. Gallen monastery from 1773 to 1774 .

Life

Gerold Brandenberg was the son of the Zug government councilor and governor Jakob Bernhard and Helena Barbara Zurlauben. He made his profession in 1749 in the monastery of St. Gallen. In 1757 he became a priest . Initially working as a teacher of rhetoric and as a prefect at the St. Gallen monastery school, he taught philosophy from around 1761 , later also theology . In 1773 he was first a law teacher, later a librarian, and in 1774 a pastor in Rorschach .

Act

During his activity as a pastor in Rorschach, Father Gerold introduced the normal school and had the church expanded. Appointed official in St. Gallen in 1785 , he and Pankraz Vorster were in opposition to Abbot Beda Angehrn (especially on questions of the economy and the participation of the Convention) . Gerold Bernhard describes him as one of the ringleaders several times in his diaries. In 1788 the priest was therefore transferred to Ehaben (Breisgau), where he served as governor from 1789 . From June 1795 to October 1796 he worked as governor in Rorschach.

During the French invasion , Father Gerold made great contributions to the rescue of the monastery archive and library . In 1798 Abbot Pankraz Vorster appointed him as overseer and administrator of the monastery property and the property that had been withdrawn from French access. Brandenberg did not take the citizenship oath and went to the monastery in Füssen (Bavaria). From 1803 he lived again in St. Gallen with Father Innozenz Bernart and finally in St. Fiden . Gerold Brandenberg wrote the continuation of the St. Gallic monastery chronicle and left a. a. a diary from the years 1770 to 1800.

literature

• Werner Vogler: Brandenberg, Gerold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Zug 1929, pp. 401-402.
• 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, pp. 166-169.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich Berchtold	Librarian of St. Gallen 1773–1774	Magnus Hungerbühler