Johann Baptist Näf

Johann Baptist Näf (born August 9, 1827 in Untereggen ; † September 11, 1911 in Salzburg ) was a resigned Swiss pastor and librarian.

Life

Johann Baptist Näf came from Untereggen. After his ordination on April 10, 1852 and subsequent doctorate on September 6, 1852, he was first vicar of the cathedral in St. Gallen and then chaplain in Kirchberg and Eggersriet . For the years 1854 to 1856 he was elected pastor in Widnau . After disputes about his choice broke out shortly thereafter, he gave up in October 1855 and taught as a professor at the College of Schwyz and the College of St. Michael before working as a librarian in the St. Gallen Abbey Library from 1868 to 1872 . In his statement of accounts for the year 1872 to his higher authority, the administrative council of the Catholic denomination part of the canton of St. Gallen, he introduced the section on visits by scholars to the St. Gallen monastery library.

In 1872 Näf went to Salzburg and from then on he worked as a writer for many years, where his knowledge of foreign languages ​​benefited him. Even in his early days in Salzburg he participated in studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , also as editor of the same. In the third year he wrote an article about the Montserrat Monastery , in the fourth year about the Archbishop of Sydney Johann Beda Polding, known in Australia as John Bede Polding (1794–1877), and in the 26th year about the Benedictines in Mexico . At the Borromeo , Näf taught Italian as a professor and language teacher, and previously also French and English. From 1872 to 1886, as librarian at St. Peter 's Abbey Library, he compiled a 13-volume catalog with the library's holdings, which made fundamental reorganizations possible. Partial catalogs of these holdings were made in 1910 and 1912, which are still in use today.

Even after he moved to the senior citizens' asylum of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul in Budapest kept Näf's friendship loyal to the pen. In 1911, in the Studies and Communications on the History of the Benedictine Order and its branches, the treatise he wrote The Library of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Gallen appeared. Brief history of the same and their most important manuscripts. From an old St. Gallen man.

Archabbot Willibald Hauthaler (1843–1922) held the blessing of his body . The St. Gallen monastery librarian Adolf Fäh was present from Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salzburg-Mülln death register, tom. XIV, fol. 84. In: Matricula. Retrieved December 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Näf Johann Baptist. In: Swiss Church History. Volumes 72–73, Paulusverlag, 1978, p. 286.
3. ↑ The study of legal manuscripts from the St. Gallen Abbey Library from the 16th to the 19th century - highlights from the history of the Abbey Library's users. In: Lukas Gschwend : Crossing borders and new horizons. Contributions to the legal and regional history of Switzerland and Lake Constance. Dike, Zurich / St. Gallen 2007, p. 425. ISBN 978-3-037-51000-1
4. ^ The Abbey of St. Gallen. Contributions to the Baroque Age. Thorbecke, 1990, p. 78. ISBN 978-3-799-50392-1
5. ↑ ^{a b} Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Volumes 32–33, Verlag Anton Pustet , Salzburg 1911, pp. 755–756.
6. ↑ Professors and Prefects. In: Twenty-sixth pass (program) of the Prince Archbishop's Collegium Borromäum zu Salzburg at the end of the school year 1875. Verlag des Collegium Borromäum, Salzburg 1875, p. 3.
7. ^ Salzburg, St. Peter. In: Ulrich Faust ; Waltraud Krassnig: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Austria and South Tyrol. Part 3. EOS, St. Ottilien 2002, p. 382. ISBN 978-3-830-67091-9
8. ^ Salzburg - Salzburg 3 - Archabbey St. Peter 1.8. In: Handbook of the historical book collections. Burgenland - Carinthia - Lower Austria - Upper Austria - Salzburg. Vol. 3, Austrian National Library (Ed.), Olms-Weidmann , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1996, p. 313. ISBN 978-3-487-41730-1
9. ↑ The library of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Gallen. Brief history of the same and their most important manuscripts. From an old St. Gallen man. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. NF 1 (1911), pp. 205-228, 385-404.

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Eduard Buchegger	Librarian from St. Gallen 1868–1872	Franz Anton Rohrer