Gilbert Helmer

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Abbot Gilbert Helmer

Gilbert Helmer O.Praem. (Born January 2, 1864 in Schrikowitz (Czech: Křepkovice ), Tepl district ; † March 4, 1944 in Tepl ) was a Premonstratensian . From 1900 to 1944 he was abbot of the Teplá Monastery in western Bohemia .

Life

Johann Baptist Helmer, the son of a miller from the monastery-owned village of Schrikowitz, entered the Teplá Monastery in 1884, accepted the religious name Gilbert, studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck and was ordained a priest on July 28, 1889 . This was followed by a study of the German language , which he in 1893 with the promotion of Doctor of Philosophy graduated. After 1894 Gilbert Helmer was a teacher at the grammar school of the Order of the Premonstratensian in Pilsen and then from 1900 to 1944 abbot of the Teplá Monastery. After further German studies, he read and interpreted the Codex Teplensis, a New Testament in a print from the beginning of the 15th century , written in a Middle High German dialect .

In 1901 Abbot Helmer became a member of the Bohemian Landtag , in 1903 of the Austrian Manor House , in 1928 he was a member of the regional representation of the German Christian Social in Prague , a member of the Prague Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctorate from the University of Prague . In 1927 he became vicar general for the Premonstratensian monasteries in Czechoslovakia and information provider for the order.

From 1903 to 1905, under Helmer's direction, the new building of the library of the Tepl Abbey with the state hall, the museum and the surrounding park were built. In 1921 succeeded Helmer, the Bavarian State in 1803 secularised monastery Speinshart in the Upper Palatinate repurchase whose administration he took over. In 1925 he protested unsuccessfully to the League of Nations in Geneva because of the property's own bathing facilities in the spa town of Marienbad that had been expropriated in a land reform in favor of Czechoslovakia . In the nationality struggle between the Germans and the Czechs in Bohemia before the First World War , he spoke moderately for the rights of the Germans. Like other leading members of the Christian Social Party, he was a member of the KDSt.V. Saxo-Bavaria Prague in the CV . He was an honorary citizen of Tepl, Marienbad and Weseritz .

Publications

  • The language of the young Schiller (diss.), 1893.
  • The devotion to the Sacred Heart in the German people from the 12th to the 18th century. 1914.

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