Hildebrand de Hemptinne

Hildebrand de Hemptinne OSB (born June 10, 1849 in Gent , † August 13, 1913 in Beuron ) was a Belgian Benedictine monk , abbot and first abbot primate of the Benedictine order .

Grave in the Beuron Abbey

life and work

Félix de Hemptinne came from a Belgian industrial family. After voluntary military service with the Papal Zouaves , he joined the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin zu Beuron (founded as a priory in 1863) on Ash Wednesday 1869 as a postulant , where he was given the religious name Hildebrand . On June 12, 1872, he was ordained a priest in Limburg Cathedral by Bishop Peter Josef Blum . In the same year, Father Hildebrand was a member of the founding convention of the Belgian Maredsous Abbey , from 1874 he worked again in Beuron, from 1875 (after the expulsion of the Benedictines) in the Servite monastery of Volders , and finally in Erdington (Birmingham) . From 1881 to 1885 he was prior in Maredsous, then chief assistant to Archabbot Maurus Wolter in Beuron, from 1890 to 1909 second abbot of Maredsous. Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on July 12, 1893 at the same time as the founding abbot of the Primate Abbey of Sant'Anselmo on the Aventine in Rome and as the first abbot primate of the Benedictine Confederation newly founded with the Breve Summum semper . De Hemptinne was instrumental in founding the Benedictine Abbey of Maredret .

Hadelin de Moreau: Cathedral Hildebrand de Hemptinne . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1930.
- German: Hildebrand de Hemptinne. Monk of Beuron, Abbot of Maredsous, first primate of the Benedictine order 1849–1913 . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1938.

personal data
SURNAME	Hemptinne, Hildebrand de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hemptinne, Félix de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian Benedictine, abbot and abbot primate
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ghent
DATE OF DEATH	August 13, 1913
Place of death	Beuron