Gregor Martin Lechner

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Father Gregor Martin Lechner OSB (born September 18, 1940 in Neumarkt-St. Veit ; † September 22, 2017 in Göttweig ) was a Benedictine of the Göttweig Abbey, an art historian and associate professor.

Life

Lechner was born on September 18, 1940 in Neumarkt-St. Veit was born in Bavaria. From 1962 to 1967 he studied theology in Freising as a seminarist for the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising. He completed his studies in art history and Byzantine studies in Munich in 1971 with a doctorate. From 1971 to 1973 he was a member of the Dominican Order . During this time he also worked for the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1974 he entered the Benedictine monastery in Göttweig, made his simple profession in 1975 and was ordained a priest in the same year by Bishop Franz Žak . In 1978 his solemn religious profession took place.

Lechner was a religion professor in Krems from 1974 to 1998. Between 1975 and 1978 he worked as a chaplain and from 1978 to 1981 as parish vicar in Göttweig. 1975 to 1978 he was the librarian and archivist of his monastery; from 1978 he was responsible for the art treasures of the monastery as curator. From 1979 to 2015 he was lecturer for iconography at the art history institutes of the universities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck and Salzburg. In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck . From 2001 to 2006 he worked as a department head for cultural studies and as head of the center for image studies at Danube University Krems .

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The list of his publications on art-historical topics includes numerous essays, exhibition catalogs, lexicon articles and reviews. For many years he was a member of the editorial team of the magazines Das Münster and Studien and Mitteilungen on the history of the Benedictine order . In 1981 he was accepted into the Bavarian Benedictine Academy. Gregor Martin Lechner received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and the Great Decoration for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria. On September 22, 2017, he died of severe cancer in Göttweig.

literature

  • Clemens Anton Lashofer: Göttweiger Professbuch. Supplements for the years 1886 to 1999. Göttweig 1999, pp. 182–194.
  • Werner Telesko , Leo Andergassen (ed.): Iconographia christiana. Festschrift for Father Gregor Martin Lechner OSB on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2005. ISBN 3-7954-1767-8

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personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Gregor Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt-St. Vitus
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2017
Place of death Göttweig