Johann Georg Seidenbusch

Johann Georg Seidenbusch, contemporary painting

Johann Georg Seidenbusch (born April 5, 1641 in Munich , † December 10, 1729 in Aufhausen ) was a formative person in the German church landscape of the Baroque period . In 1666 he was ordained a priest in his hometown . His life's work was the oratorio in Aufhausen (see Aufhausen Abbey ).

Life

He spent his childhood in his parents' house in Munich. He developed his love for Christ and the Church in a good, middle-class environment . In 1659 he completed his high school studies at the Jesuit high school in Munich (today: Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). His decision to become a priest was made relatively early on. In 1666, after studying theology in Munich, he was ordained a priest. As a young priest, a year after his ordination, he moved to Aufhausen near Regensburg . There he was appointed pastor . He brought a small statue of the Virgin Mary with him to Aufhausen , which he had saved from being thrown away as a student from a previous building of today's Bürgersaalkirche . For this statue of the Virgin Mary he built a small wooden chapel . Even with this simple building, he showed his artistic skills. The pilgrimage of Maria Schnee zu Aufhausen grew out of the simple devotions he held in front of his figure of Mary since his student days . Here in Aufhausen, in addition to his deep piety and pastoral instinct, he also developed a love of painting . Many influential contemporaries noticed his talent.

At the Viennese imperial court, for example, his landscapes , portraits and simple devotional pictures were very popular. A friendly relationship arose here with the Habsburgs . He was also very popular there as a composer . After all, it was the imperial family that promoted the printing of its first little book with sacred chants.

Since 1672 he had established a kind of Vita communis with his assistant priests. From this an oratorio grew under his hand in Aufhausen, the first in German-speaking countries. In 1701 an oratorio was written in Vienna and in 1707 in Munich. In 1672 the first own church was consecrated, which Seidenbusch built for his figure of Mary and his congregation .

When he died on December 10, 1729, he left behind a lively community based on the ideal of St. Philip Neri and an equally lively pilgrimage . In 1736 construction began on today's Maria Schnee pilgrimage church , which was consecrated in 1751. The tower was not completed until 1761. The builder of the current pilgrimage church was Johann Michael Fischer from Burglengenfeld . A work of art of a special kind is the altarpiece of the Madonna and Child, which probably comes from the Dürer School .

The oratorio in Aufhausen was abolished in the 19th century. The last member of the convent died in 1886. In the 2000s, a new foundation was established that endeavored to initiate a beatification process for Seidenbusch.

Johann Georg Seidenbusch created the original form of the Salve-Regina song, Gegrüßet du, Königin ( GL 536).

literature

• Adalbert Ebner: Probst Johann Georg Seidenbusch and the introduction of the Congregation of St. Philipp Neri in Baiern <Bayern> and Austria . Bachem in Comm., Cologne 1891 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
• E. Garms: Provost Johann Georg Seidenbusch (1641-1729) and the oratorio in Vienna at the time of Emperor Leopold I. In: Wodrazka, PB (ed.): Philipp Neri, the apostle of joy and the oratorio. With selected sources of oratorian life, Bonn 2008, pp. 163–167 (further literature ibid. P. 284 f.).
• Hans Pörnbacher:  Seidenbusch, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 178 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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• Johann Georg Seidenbusch: Catholic devotional exercise . Straubing, 1676

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 141.
2. ↑ Web presence of the Aufhauser Oratorianer ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.mittelbayerische.de/regensburg-land/artikel/georg-seidenbusch-soll-selig-haben/1161692/georg-seidenbusch-soll-selig-haben.html