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
- Works by and about Joseph Maria Hiendl in the German Digital Library
- Hiendl, Josef Maria in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)
Individual evidence
predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hiendl, Joseph Maria |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hiendl, Joseph Maria OSB |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Benedictine; Abbot of the Oberalteich monastery |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1737 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Straubing |
DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1796 |
Place of death | Oberalteich |