Joachim Suppan

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Abbot Joachim II. Suppan after a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber

Joachim Suppan OSB (born October 23, 1794 in Graz , † October 1, 1864 in St. Lambrecht ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Lambrecht's Abbey from 1835 until his death in 1864 . As Joachim Röck was another abbot with the religious name Joachim in office a few years earlier , Suppan was often written as Joachim II . In addition, he appeared for many years as a university lecturer and was sometimes rector at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Joachim Suppan was born on October 23, 1794 as the son of a master shoemaker in Graz; his baptismal name was Johann . One of his sisters, Stanislaia Suppan, later joined the Ursuline Convent in Graz . Johann Suppan himself entered the novitiate of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht on September 29, 1811, at the age of 16 . There he initially attended the home school before studying theology for three years at Admont Abbey . A few days before he was solemnly professed (August 3), Suppan was ordained a priest on July 25, 1816. Subsequently, he began to study natural sciences at the Lyceum in Graz and attended lectures in physics and mathematics at the University of Graz . The latter educational institution he graduated in 1819 with the promotion for Doctor from philosophy. He then taught mathematics and physics in Gorizia from 1819 to 1822 , in Innsbruck from 1822 to 1835 and from 1823 at the University of Innsbruck . At the same time, Suppan was a supplement for theoretical and moral philosophy , as well as for educational sciences . In addition, he was rector of the university in 1831 and dean of its faculty in 1832 and 1835 .

He could not accept a call to the University of Vienna because he had been elected abbot of the St. Lambrecht monastery in 1835 . After Rupert Schmidmayer and Kilian Drocker had acted as administrators for the past 15 years , Suppan was the next abbot since Ferdinand Herzog, who left office in 1820 . Like his predecessors, he was instrumental in rebuilding the abbey after the devastation of the Napoleonic Wars . So he managed to finance the interior and exterior restoration of the monastery, which included a spacious park with rare tree and shrub species. He also had the old chapel and the now to ruin ruined castle largely restored. In addition, Suppan, who was considered a great patron of science and music, had the boys' choir built in the rooms of the former hospital in the year he was elected abbot.

In the same year the grammar school, which existed before the abbey was abolished in 1786, was added. At the end of the 1840s he achieved public rights for the collegiate high school . Both the Boys' Choir and the Stiftsgymnasium existed until 1932. After the old hospital was converted, he had a new Abbey Hospital built and also initiated the construction of a beneficiary house . During his tenure, Matthias Pangerl reorganized the archive and expanded the collection of the monastery library. During this time, a multi-volume real catalog was created, which is still in use today, around 200 years later. In 1857 Suppan, who was also a member of the agricultural society in Gorizia, was involved in the 700th anniversary of Mariazell . Throughout his life he published some works, be it in the form of articles, funeral speeches or travel diaries.

As St. Lambrecht's guide to spiritual, personal and material prosperity, Suppan died on October 1, 1864, around three weeks before his 70th birthday, of the consequences of a stroke in St. Lambrecht Abbey.

Works (selection)

  • Joachim Suppan: Hypsometry by means of physical observations, or theoretical-practical instructions for making meteorological observations and for barometric altitude measurement along with the outline of thermometric and botanical altitude determination . Verlag der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung, Innsbruck 1834.
  • Joachim Suppan: Funeral speech, delivered in the kk university hall at the funeral service held at the kk Leopold-Franzens-University after the death of Sr. Majesty Franz I, Emperor of Austria etc. etc, on March 18, 1835 . Verlag der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung, Innsbruck 1835.
  • Joachim Suppan: Academic speech at the annual celebration of the restoration of the kk Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck . Innsbruck 1835.
  • Travel diaries and travelogues ( Hss. Stiftsarchiv St. Lambrecht).

literature

Web links

  • Joachim Suppan in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 244 years chair of experimental physics , accessed on October 28, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Kilian Drocker (Administrator) Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey
1835–1864 		Alexander Setznagel
personal data
SURNAME Suppan, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suppan, Johann (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor, Benedictine and abbot
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1864
Place of death Saint Lambrecht