Heinrich Widmann

Heinrich Widmann OSB (born November 13, 1689 in Straubing ; † October 14, 1758 in Mallersdorf ) was a German Benedictine , abbot in Mallersdorf Abbey and professor of philosophy at the University of Erfurt .

biography

Heinrich Widmann made his profession on October 28, 1710 in Mallersdorf Monastery and received his philosophical and theological training under Johannes Evangelist Rottner. After being ordained a priest in 1714, he was initially employed in pastoral care in the churches supervised by the monastery. During this time he was already making a name for himself as an excellent preacher. He was then given offices in the monastery before he took over the position of director of the seminary for noble youth in the Regensburg Schottenabtei Sankt Jakob .

In 1723 he received the extraordinary professorship for philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt and in 1726 the second full professorship for philosophy (morality) and was also dean of the faculty. The activity in Erfurt was probably owed to the Regensburg Schottenkloster, which was connected to the university via the Schottenkloster there and sent monks to study philosophy and theology and to take on professorships at the Philosophical Faculty in Erfurt. Like his predecessor from the Regensburg Schottenkloster, Heinrich Widmann also gave his public lectures in the auditorium of the Erfurt Schottenkloster.

When Heinrich Widmann returned to Mallersdorf in 1728, he took over the office of prior in the monastery . On August 5, 1732, he was finally elected abbot of Mallersdorf Abbey. During his term of office, the baroque redesign of the monastery church and the expansion of the monastery buildings took place. During this time, Mallersdorf Monastery housed the joint novitiate and study of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation . Abbot Heinrich Widmann held the office of visitor in the congregation.

Abbot Heinrich Widmann died on October 14, 1758 of the consequences of a serious fall that had already occurred in April. The eulogy and funeral speech for the deceased, which was published in Regensburg, was held by Abbot Petrus Gerl from the monastery checking , who, like Heinrich Widmann, came from Straubing.

Works (in selection)

Theology and philosophy

• Dissertatio theologica de poenitentia ad mentem SS. Anselmi & Thomae, publicae disputationi expostia, in Monasterio ad Montem S. Joannis Apost. & Evangelistae Mallerstrophiensi Congregat. Benedictino-Bavaricae . praeside Joanne Evangelista Rottner defendentibus Henrico Widman et Ernesto Schmid, Munich 1714.
• Monile animae rationalis sive libertas , Erfurt 1728.

Sermons

• The silk bush adorned by divine grace, namely Johann Georg Seidenbusch 64-year-old priest. Leich Sermon , Regensburg 1730.
• That Bey, day and night, brightly shimmering Nunmehro star-light veiled by clouds of death, Weyland The Venerable High and Well-Borne Lord, Mr. Bernardus de Baillie, Des… Closters Ord. St. Benedict. whose Schotten at St. Jacob in Regenspurg Most glorious abbot ... Bey of his thirtieth, held on May 27, 1743, presented to a prestigious auditorium through a speech of praise and mourning , Stadt am Hof ​​1744.
• The fruit-full vines of the most glorious blood-stuff Joannes Nepomucenus , Regensburg 1744.
• Two loud trumpets, ie holy life of the 2 servants of God Fidelis Mart. and Joseph of Leonissa, Ordin. Capucin. , Straubing 1747.
• The by the high death Weyland Des Hochgebohrnen Mr. Josephi Ferdinand. Maximilian. Of salvation. Rom. Reichs Graf von Leublfing… September 1st. and this month the 1st Sunday, when on the feast of the HH Schutz-Englen Anno 1748. Broken high counts coats-of-arms-weights On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th igists held the 16th of September to a high-nobility and wealthy auditorio at an openly Traur-Cantzel, And given in print on repeated request , Regensburg 1748.
• The high priest crowned by God and crowning his God against him Namely ... Mr. Dominicus Des already counting over the toe Saeculum Closters Ober-Altaich Ord. S. Benedicti Worthy Abbot ... At the high festival of his other religious profession On public Cantzel … October 24th on the 21st Sunday after Pentecost Anno 1751.… presented , Straubing 1752.

literature

• August Lindner: The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in today's Kingdom of Bavaria from 1750 to the present , Volume 1, Regensburg 1880, p. 287f.
• Petrus Gerl : Seelig-speaking of the Weyland Venerable, Highly Noble-Drilled Mr. Henrici, of the Highly Commendable-Exempten Closter-Stifts on the mountain S. Joannis Evangelistae zu Mallerstorff OSP Benedicti Most Worthy Abbot , Regenspurg 1758 ( digitalisat on bavarikon.de).

predecessor	Office	successor
Korbinian rod	Abbot of the Mallersdorf Monastery 1732–1758	Henry VII Madlseder