Johann Jakob Schleich

Johann Jakob Schleich OSB (* 1622 in Schwarzach (Lower Bavaria) ; † August 12, 1668 in Metten ) was a monk and abbot in the Bavarian Benedictine Abbey of Metten .

biography

Johann Jakob Schleich is said to have been the son of a court clerk in Schwarzach (Lower Bavaria) and grew up in poor circumstances after the early death of his parents. Since 1641 he was in the Metten Monastery and in 1647 he was ordained a priest. In the monastery he held the office of prior from 1655–58. After the sudden death of Abbot Augustinus Gerlstötter , Johann Jakob Schleich was elected by the Metten monks on March 21, 1658 as a compromise candidate as the new abbot.

Abbot Johann Jakob Schleich took over from his predecessors a monastery that was heavily indebted due to the large expenses for the structural repairs that were necessary after the Thirty Years' War . Economic setbacks and financial demands by the Regensburg bishops for the transfer of the Stephansposching parish resulted in a further deterioration in the financial situation.

Nevertheless, Abbot Johann Jakob Schleich promoted the maintenance of science in the monastery. At his invitation, religious and monks from foreign monasteries lectured as teachers of philosophy in the monastery, such as the Dominicans Johannes Steuber from Koblenz and Albert van der Hayden as well as the Benedictine Ildephons Thaler from Stift Seitenstetten , Peter Wollgschaffen from Stift Sankt Peter (Salzburg) and Willibald Lendler from Ochsenhausen Monastery in Swabia.

literature

• Wilhelm Fink , History of the Development of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten. Part 1: The Book of Professions of the Abbey (Studies and Communications on the History of the Benedictine Order and its Branches, Supplement 1/1), Munich 1926, p. 38.
• Maurus Gandershofer , The Merits of the Benedictines von Metten for the Care of Science and the Arts , Landshut 1841, p. 16.
• Rupert Mittermüller , The Metten Monastery and its Aebte: An overview of the history of this old Benedictine monastery , Straubing 1856, pp. 176–179.

predecessor	Office	successor
Augustine Gerlstötter	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1658–1668	Roman Schäffler