John VI Pfister

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John VI Pfister (* in Würzburg ; † September 13, 1641 in Ebrach ) was abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach from 1637 to 1641 .

Life

John VI Pfister was born in the second half of the 16th or the first half of the 17th century in Würzburg, Lower Franconia . The sources are silent about the names of his parents, and any siblings of the future abbot are not mentioned. Johannes grew up in the royal seat and probably attended Latin school here . He later went to the local university and studied law here, among other things, so that he soon received his doctorate.

During the occupation of the monastery by the Protestant Swedes in the Thirty Years' War , the monk Johannes Pfister accompanied his abbot and predecessor Johannes V. Dressel into his exile in the Rhineland and the Palatinate. In 1636 he returned to the completely impoverished monastery. After the death of Johannes Dressel in the spring of 1637, Johannes was elected that same year under the chairmanship of Abbot Georg Kihn of the Bildhausen monastery .

On February 2, 1638, the Benediction took place by the Würzburg bishop Franz von Hatzfeld . The newly elected abbot traveled to Würzburg especially for this purpose and was consecrated in the cathedral of his native city. During his short term in office, the Ebrach monastery suffered from many troop movements. Nevertheless, Johannes Pfister was able to keep his abbey. John VI Pfister died on September 20, 1641 and was buried in the monastery church. One of his successors, Petrus Scherenberger, later had a memorial epitaph set up in the church.

literature

  • Adelhard Kaspar: Chronicle of the Ebrach Abbey . Münsterschwarzach 1971.
  • Josef Wirth: The Ebrach Abbey. To commemorate eight hundred years. 1127-1927 . Gerolzhofen 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. Wirth, Josef: The Ebrach Abbey . P. 40.
  2. Wirth, Josef: The Ebrach Abbey . Ibid.
  3. Kaspar, Adelhard: Chronicle of the Ebrach Abbey . P. 158.
predecessor Office successor
Johannes V. Dressel Abbot of Ebrach
1637–1641
Henry VI. usher