Jakob Friedrich Bussereau

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Prelate Msgr. Jakob Bussereau
Title page of the magazine "St. Antoniusimmen" published by Prelate Bussereau, edition on his death, August 1919, with his photo and his signature.

Jakob Friedrich Bussereau (born February 2, 1863 in Hambach an der Weinstrasse , † July 2, 1919 in the Liebfrauenberg monastery near Bergzabern ) was a Catholic clergyman and founder of the order. He is also called St. Vincent de Paul of the Diocese of Speyer .

Life

Jakob Friedrich Bussereau was born on February 2, 1863, as the son of the master cooper Johann Christian Bussereau and his wife Elisabeth, born. Born Schlichter in Hambach an der Weinstrasse. Although the parents were poor, the boy was allowed to attend the Latin school in Neustadt and the grammar school in Speyer, which he graduated in 1882. In the same year he began his theological studies in Munich, where he became an active member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich in the KV . In 1885 he entered the Speyer seminary and was ordained a priest on August 19, 1886 in Speyer Cathedral by Bishop Georg von Ehrler . Bussereau celebrated his first class in Hambach, the preacher was the famous local pastor and “Palatinate calendar man” Aloys Weisenburger , who had also baptized him and gave him the first lesson.

The new priest took up his first chaplaincy in Herxheim near Landau in September 1886 ; in July 1889 he moved to Germersheim . The idea of ​​establishing an asylum for the terminally ill had already matured in Herxheim, something that the condition of his own sick and incapable of work sister had encouraged him to do. However, as the bishop's young chaplain did not listen to him and, on the other hand, never let go of the idea - also with regard to his sister in need and sick parents - he applied for the parish of Münster am Lech in the diocese of Augsburg . Bussereau became a pastor there on August 25, 1890. Here, because of a crippled orphan girl, he met the pastor Dominikusringenisen , an apostle of the disabled and founder of the Ursberg institution for the disabled . Pastor Bussereau entered this institution in 1895 as a spiritual director.

Nevertheless, his home in the Palatinate did not let go of him and he wanted to create a work similar to Pastor Ringsisen in the Diocese of Speyer. Again he went to the bishop in Speyer and this time was heard because he could already refer to the relevant experiences from Ursberg . On April 1, 1896, Jakob Friedrich Bussereau opened his home in an inconspicuous house in Herxheim near Landau with some sick people and their nurses. From then on he built and worked for 23 years at his home for the disabled, which he called "St. Paulus Stift". Right at the beginning he founded an order of women, the Sisters of Paul (with full name: Congregation of the Sisters of St. Paul), in 1905 as a male branch the Brothers of Paul (Congregation of the Brothers of St. Paul).

The visionary work took a great boom. Branch offices were set up in Queichheim , Kirchmohr , (now Niedermohr), Neuötting , Mainz , Darmstadt and Bad Bergzabern (Liebfrauenberg Monastery). The intensive care of destitute, physically and mentally handicapped people was a great need of the time, especially when the First World War caused countless crippled war invalids.

Devotional picture of St. Joseph, with a call for donations from Prelate Bussereau
First clothing of the Paulus Brothers, 1914, front center, Prelate Bussereau, to his left Bishop Michael von Faulhaber , later Cardinal-Archbishop of Munich.

Busseraeau became a prelate . He also worked as a publicist and published his magazine St. Antonius Voices and the Altöttinger Marienkalender in the Neuötting branch . At the Frauenberger Hof near Bad Bergzabern, which he had acquired in 1899, he set up a rest home for priests. This was so popular that he set up a monastery and a recreation facility with space for 125 spa guests; Kurhaus and Liebfrauenberg Monastery near Bad Bergzabern. In Queichheim, in addition to caring for the disabled, the Paulus Brothers also ran a large printing company and a publishing house for religious writings, the “St. Joseph Verlagsdruckerei ”in Landau-Queichheim.

Prelate Busserau had a heart condition in the last years of his life. When he was staying on the Liebfrauenberg near Bad Bergzabern, a catarrh set in that threw him on the sickbed. He did not recover, but died there on July 2, 1919, at the age of only 56. He was buried in the monastery cemetery of the Paulus monastery in Herxheim, Bishop Ludwig Sebastian , who also spoke at the grave, Vicar General Molz and Cathedral Chapter Prelate Joseph Schwind as well as 60 diocesan priests, his religious orders and many friends and admirers gave him the last escort .

Prelate Joseph Schwind became his acting successor as Superior of the Paul Sisters.

Both branches of Jakob Friedrich Bussereau's order exist to this day, although they are in decline. The male branch of the Paul Brothers only has three members (as of 2015).

literature

  • Joseph von Tongelen: A great dead man. Prelate Jakob Friedrich Bussereau . In: Caritas , vol. 25 (1919), 38f.
  • St. Anthony Voices given by the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Paulus in Queichheim bei Landau, vol. 21 (1919), pp. 115-143 and vol. 23 (1921), pp. 49-88.
  • Jakob Knauber : Prelate Jakob Friedrich Bussereau . St. Paulusstift, Herxheim 1928.
  • P. Ingenuin: Prelate Bussereau's 20th anniversary of his death . In: Klerusblatt, Vol. 20 (1939), pp. 370–373.
  • P. Ingenuin: Jakob Friedrich Bussereau . In: Caritas , vol. 45 (1940), pp. 8-9.
  • 50 years of St. Paulus Stift Landau-Queichheim, 1905–1955 , Festschrift, Congregation of the Paulus Brothers, 1955.
  • Franz Matt:  Bussereau, Jakob Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 76 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Albert Schwarz: Jakob Friedrich Bussereau , in: Lexicon for Theology and Church , 2nd edition, Vol. 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1958, p. 820.
  • Hermann Rieder: Jakob Friedrich Bussereau - founder of the St. Paulus Foundation . In: Herxheimer Heimatbrief, Vol. 3 (1993), pp. 44-50.
  • Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical lexicon on nursing history: who was who in nursing history . Elsevier, Urban & Fischer 2001, ISBN 3437266705 , 37f.
  • Ekkart Sauser:  BUSSEREAU, Jakob, Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 247.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive ) (incomplete and defective article)

Web links

Commons : Jakob Friedrich Bussereau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A new home for the Paul Brothers . In: francis. Journal of the Franciscan Minorites in Germany , 2015, issue 1, pp. 8–9, here p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Bussereau, Jakob Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman and founder of the order
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hambach on the Wine Route
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1919
Place of death at Bergzabern