Idesbald Eicheler

Idesbald Eicheler OCist (* December 5, 1896 in Antwerp as Josef Eicheler ; † July 6, 1971 in Windeck , district Dattenfeld ) was a German Cistercian abbot of the Marienstatt Abbey and historian.

Life

Josef Eicheler, whose father was a merchant from the Westerwald , attended the Marienstatt private grammar school in the Marienstatt Abbey and a grammar school in Hadamar , took part in the First World War and entered the Marienstatt Cistercian monastery in 1922, which he knew from school. He took the religious name Idesbald (after the Cistercian Idesbald von Dünen, 1090–1167, from what is now the Belgian monastery Ten Duinen ). He was ordained a priest in 1926 and continued his theology studies at the University of Friborg in Switzerland. There he was in 1930 with a dissertation on the congregations of the Cistercian order. Origin of the Cistercian Congregations and their relationship to the constitution and the general chapter of the order .

In 1936 Idesbald Eicheler was elected as the successor to Eberhard Hoffmann as the 50th Abbot of Marienstatt. In January 1971 he resigned from office. He died six months later.

literature

• One hundred years of repopulation of the Marienstatt Abbey 1888–1988 . Book and art publisher Abtei Marienstatt, Marienstatt 1988.
• Konrad Fuchs:  Idesbald Eicheler. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , column 305.

Web links

• 800 years of Marienstatt. Highlights from the history of the abbey (chronological overview of the history of the Marienstatt Abbey)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Published in: Studies and Communications for the History of the Benedictine Order and its Branches (SMBO), Vol. 49 (1931), pp. 55–91, 188–227 and 308–340. Eicheler was novice master from 1930 .
2. ↑ 800 years of Marienstatt. Highlights from the abbey history