Joseph Maria Hiendl

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The coat of arms of Joseph Maria Hiendl

Joseph Maria Hiendl OSB (* December 1, 1737 in Straubing ; † June 25, 1796 ) was a German abbot .

Life

After he had entered the Benedictine monastery in Oberalteich , he made his profession in September 1754 and celebrated his primacy in November 1760. He then worked as a chaplain in Nonnberg , later as a professor in Freising and pilgrimage priest in Bogenberg . In 1772 he became abbot of his monastery; From 1782 to 1796 he was also elected President of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation .

In addition, Hiendl was scientifically active and promoted the library and the natural history cabinet of the monastery; he was also director of the Bavarian Electoral College and was made an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1782 .

An oil painting by the fresco painter Franz Anton Rauscher , which he created in the year of his death in 1777, shows the Bavarian Elector Max III. Joseph handing over his rights to Abbot Hiendl ; it hangs in the privately owned former castle brewery Gossersdorf (Straubing).

Works

  • Prodromus mathematicus, seu prolegomena matbematica. (Regensburg, Englerth 1765) ( BSB , limited preview in the Google book search)
  • Funeral speech for the once Revered, Highly Born Mr. Petrus [Gerl], the famous and liberated monastery, and monastery test subjects most worthy abbot ... (Regensburg 1781) ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Oratio ad senatum et populum academicum in templo almae et archiepiscopalis universitatis salzburgensis ante trienalem rectoris magnifici electionem et universitatis visitationem dicta die June 18, 1785 (Salzburg 1785) (digitized: MDZ , DDB , limited preview in Google book search)

literature

  • Hans Neueder: Oberaltaich. History of an important Bavarian Benedictine monastery , Regensburg 2012, pp. 257–275.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
predecessor Office successor
Johann Evangelist Schifferl Abbot of the Benedictine monastery Oberalteich
1772–1796
Beda Aschenbrenner
Petrus Gerl Abbot praeses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation
1782–1796
Karl Klocker