Johann Erhard Blarer from Wartensee

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Prince Abbot Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensees

Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee (* 1554 in Rapperswil , rule Rapperswil ; † probably 1594 ) was prince abbot of the prince monastery of Kempten from 1587 to 1594 . The best-known achievement of this prince abbot is the founding of Typographia ducalis Campidonensis around 1593 in Kempten . Today's Kösel-Verlag has its origins in this former court book printer.

The prince abbot comes from a Swiss nobility who have called themselves von Wartensee since 1286 . Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee was the son of Johann Kaspar Blarer von Wartensee and Elisabeth von Syrgenstein and was born in Rapperswil in 1554. In 1584 he took part in the election of abbot as a collegiate capital, from which dean Albrecht von Hohenegg emerged as prince abbot. Blarer von Wartensee then took his position as dean.

After Hohenegg's death, Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee became prince abbot of Kempten. In 1593 he founded the pen printing house. Under him the state order was also improved. Wartensee tried to put a stop to the increasing decline of monastic life in Kempten during the reign of Prince Abbot Eberhard von Stein by giving the novices their academic education at the University of Dillingen .

The successor to the founder of the Hofdruckerei was Johann Adam Renner von Allmendingen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Spindler (founder), Christoph Bauer, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century. ( Handbook of Bavarian History ); Part 2. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 , p. 313.

literature

  • Friedrich Zollhoefer (Hrsg.): In Eduard Zimmermann, Friedrich Zollhoefer: Kempter coat of arms and symbols including the city and district of Kempten and the adjacent areas of the upper Allgäu. In: Heimatverein Kempten (Ed.): Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund. 1. Delivery, No. 60/61, Kempten 1960/61, p. 25f.
predecessor Office successor
Adalbert IV von Hoheneck Prince Abbot of Kempten
1587 - 1594 		Johann Adam Renner from Allmendingen
personal data
SURNAME Blarer von Wartensee, Johann Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abbot, prince abbot in the prince monastery Kempten (1587–1594)
DATE OF BIRTH 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil , Herrschaft Rapperswil , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1594