Hieronymus Lindenmann

Hieronymus Lindenmann (born June 10, 1638 as Johann Lindenmann ; † January 13, 1709 ) was the librarian of the St. Gallen monastery in 1691 .

Live and act

Hieronymus came from Goldach . In 1652 he is attested in the monastery of St. Gallen, where he made his profession on May 6, 1655 . In 1660 he became a subdeacon , in 1661 a deacon . He then left St. Gallen for Paris to study law there.

After receiving his doctorate on December 18, 1663, he was a teacher at the Disentis Monastery , where he was appointed dean in 1668. However, he returned to St. Gallen in the same year, from where he set off for Murbach together with other conventuals . Back in St. Gallen, he became a brother instructor and apostolic notary in 1672, and a brother instructor in 1674. The transfer to St. Johann followed . From 1683 he was back in St. Gallen and held various monastery offices. From March 17 to November 27, 1691 he was in charge of the abbey library .

literature

• Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, p. 322, no.325.
• 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, p. 85.

predecessor	Office	successor
Constantius von Sonnenberg	Librarian of St. Gallen 1691	Burkhard Heer