Hermes Halpaur

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Keystone of the coat of arms of the entrance gate of the Jesuit College Speyer

Hermes Halpaur (also Hermes Halbbauer ; * in the 16th century; † February 17, 1572 in Fulda ) was an Austrian Jesuit , preacher and theologian.

Live and act

He came from Carinthia and entered the Jesuit order in Vienna in 1552 . As a result, he became a close collaborator of Petrus Canisius . In 1559 Hermes Halpaur taught philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt .

In 1561, Emperor Ferdinand I summoned the Jesuits to Innsbruck . Halpaur was one of the first members of the order to work there and had been sent by Petrus Canisius, who soon followed suit himself. Hermes Halpaur worked in Innsbruck, among other things, as a preacher at the Hofkirche , where, according to Beda Weber, he "refreshed all minds through the clarity, intimacy and urgency of his lecture" . He looked after the emperor's unmarried daughters Magdalena of Austria , Helena of Austria and Margarethe of Austria as confessor.

When the Jesuit College Speyer was founded in 1567 , Father Hermes Halpaur became its first rector. He had already been in Speyer as provisional cathedral preacher since the fall of 1566, succeeding Father Lambert Auer , and soon afterwards began teaching his order at the cathedral school. In 1571 his brother Peter Michael Brillmacher replaced him as rector and was able to successfully continue Halpaur's development work.

In the same year he was sent to Fulda , where he arrived on November 24, 1571. Here Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach had applied for the establishment of a religious establishment, whereby, among other things, one fell back on Father Hermes Halpaur. On February 17, 1572, he collapsed dead during a sermon in Fulda Cathedral .

literature

  • Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , Part 3, Volume 1, pp. 64–66, Pilger Verlag Speyer, 1954

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Heinrich von Lang: History of the Jesuits in Baiern , Nuremberg, 1819, p. 102; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Beda Weber : Tirol and the Reformation , Innsbruck, 1841, p. 377; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Paul Graf von Hoensbroech : The Jesuit Order , Volume 1, p. 436, 1926; (PDF digital scan)
  4. ↑ Christoph Weber : The Jesuits in Fulda , in: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , year 34, Fulda, 1958, p. 30; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Halpaur, Hermes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Half-peasant, Hermes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, preacher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1572
Place of death Fulda