Jos Metzler

Hermannum Josemann's "Predicanten Latin" ( Vorarlberg State Library ).

Jos Metzler (also: Pater Jodocus Metzler , Jost Metzler or Mezler and Jodocus Metzlerus or Jodoci Mezleri ; * 1574 in Andelsbuch ; † April 7, 1639 in Wil ) was an Austrian-Swiss monk , monastery librarian in St. Gallen , chronicler , lawyer and Writer . He also used the pseudonym : Hermannum Josemann .

Life, study and work

Jos Metzler was born in Andelsbuch as the son of the Bregenzerwald Landammann Kaspar Metzler and his wife Ursula Berlinger. In 1593 he joined the Benedictine order and studied philosophy and theology in Dillingen until 1595, and canon law in Rome from 1601 to 1603 , graduating with an excellent degree.

In 1604 Metzler was appointed abbey librarian in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen . In 1605 he was made subprior and novice master , and from 1605 he was appointed abbot governor of Wil (St. Gallen) and St. Johann in the Thurtal . Several times during this period up to 1613 he was sent to Rome for the St. Gallen Monastery . Among other things, in a canon law dispute between the Prince Abbot of St. Gallen and the Bishop of Constance, Jakob Fugger , with his interventions and submissions in court on March 1, 1613, he was able to reach a decision in favor of the St. Gallen Monastery. As a result of this decision, an ecclesiastical ordinariate was created in St. Gallen and Metzler was appointed vicar general on August 22, 1614 , an office he held until 1620.

Works

Metzler wrote a history of the St. Gallen monastery and other Benedictine monasteries, the book of the dead and the list of abbots of the St. Gallen monastery, legal works for training in the monastery school and many other works. However, a considerable part of these has been lost. Metzler wrote a pamphlet against the Protestants under the pseudonym Hermannum Josemann .

The works by Metzler reproduced here are only a selection and are therefore incomplete.

Albert Danner, Jodocus Mezler: Logica de demonstratione eiusque fine scientia disputatio. 1595.
Jodocus Metzler: Orationes centum quinquaginta ad psalmos. St. Gallen, end of the 16th / beginning of the 17th century
Hermannum Josemann (pseudonym of Jos Metzler): Predicanten Latin: This is / Drey questions / many Catholics give up all the evangelical predicants mentioned / but never thoroughly answered bißhero; Now written in rhymes for new. Useful and necessary to read for all Christians , provided by Hermannum Josemann / lovers of truth . Ingolstadt / Mainz / Rorschach 1607.

Jodocus Metzler (translator): Miraculous signs, according to Maria, the mothers of God, to Sannt Gallen in the Munster at the time of Abbot Ůlrichs deß VIII., Abbot Gotthart and Abbot Francisscen etc. done, without the old original and several Zädelin, so also in it, brought together. St. Gallen 1608.

Jodocus Mezler: Jodoci Mezleri San-Gallensis de Viris Illustribus Monasterii sui Libri II. De Viris Illustribus Monasterii S. Galli, Ord. S. Bened. Libri II, 1721. In: Thesaurus Anecdotorum Novissimus: Seu Veterum Monumentorum, praecipue Ecclesiasticorum, ex Germanicis potissimum Bibliothecis adornata collectio recentissima.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Metzler, Jodok or Jost . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, p. 202 ( digitized version ).
Meyer von Knonau: Mezler, Jodocus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 669.
Vorarlberg State Museum: 900 years of Andelsbuch. Exhibition catalog of the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum No. 90, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz 1980.
Eberhard Tiefenthaler: Biblos. Vol. 29, 1980, No. 3, pp. 193-220.
Franz Xaver Bishop : Metzler, Jodokus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Jos Metzler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Jos Metzler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Regarding the excellent academic success, there is a letter from Cardinal Aldobrandini to the Abbot of St. Gallen dated May 31, 1603 - see Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.
↑ Last from 1625 until his death in 1639.
↑ Information in the paragraph quoted from: Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.
^ Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.
↑ According to Eberhard Tiefenthaler in Biblos , vol. 29, 1980, issue 3, pp. 193–220, the authorship of Jos Metzler for this pamphlet can be assumed with great probability in this regard.

predecessor	Office	successor
Mauritius Enk	Librarian of St. Gallen 1604–1624	Bonifaz Rüedlinger

personal data
SURNAME	Metzler, Jos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Metzler, Jodocus; Mezler, Jodocus; Metzler, Jost; Mezler, Jos; Metzlerus, Jodocus; Mezleri, Jodoci; Hermannum Josemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Monk, monastery librarian in St. Gallen, chronicler, lawyer, writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1574
PLACE OF BIRTH	Andelsbuch
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1639
Place of death	Wil

[1] Regarding the excellent academic success, there is a letter from Cardinal Aldobrandini to the Abbot of St. Gallen dated May 31, 1603 - see Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.

[2] Last from 1625 until his death in 1639.

[3] Information in the paragraph quoted from: Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.

[4] Vorarlberger Landesmuseum: 900 years Andelsbuch , p. 49.

[5] According to Eberhard Tiefenthaler in Biblos , vol. 29, 1980, issue 3, pp. 193–220, the authorship of Jos Metzler for this pamphlet can be assumed with great probability in this regard.