Joseph Michael Schwaiger

Joseph Michael Schwaiger (born September 28, 1841 in St. Johann in Tirol , † May 17, 1887 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer and pastor .

Life

Schwaiger was born as the son of farmers Anton Schwaiger and Anna, née Mayrl, at Hof Lechen in Almdorf, St. Johann in Tirol. The father died early. After attending the Borromäum College and theological studies in Salzburg, Joseph Michael Schwaiger was ordained a priest in 1865.

He worked as a pastor in Unken until 1870 . From 1870 to 1875 he was professor at the Borromäum, then again in pastoral care, namely in Fuschl , Böckstein and Ellmau and, from 1884, as a spiritualist in the prince- archbishop's seminary in Salzburg , where he died at the age of 44.

Schwaiger, ailing all his life, is said to have written as a high school student; He never got beyond this level in his literary, epigonal “neo-romantic” works. These texts, some of which were self-published and are now difficult to access, are unlikely to have been widely used at the time either. Only "Die Kinder Tannwald-Ott's", a village story with a clearly attached clerical tendency, originally appeared as a serial novel. " Andreas Hofer " (1881 also as a book), the verse novella (in Nibelungen stanzas) "Das Lied von der Treue", a new version of "Ein Edelmann" (1871), 1882 in the newspaper " Stadt Gottes ". The play “ Aloisius von Gonzaga ” (first in 1882 in “Vier kleine Dramen”, published independently in 1891) is said to have existed in 1900 in four editions. In addition, Schwaiger published articles in the “Salzburger Chronik” and brochures for the Salzburg Press Association, such as “What does it cost?”, 1874. Other works: Simon Petrus and Simon Magus in Rome, 1873 (drama); At the lake, 1880 (poems); Four Little Dramas for Children and Verse, 1882; Bergrosen, undated (poems);

literature

• SP Scheichl:  Schwaiger, Michael Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 415.
• Gertraud Pfaundler-Spath: Tirol Lexikon, Innsbruck 2005, p. 503
• New Tyrolean Voices, August 1, 1871, Salzburger Zeitung, 18, Salzburger Kirchenblatt, 26, Salzburger Chronik, May 26 and 27, 1887, Brümmer; Giebisch-Gugitz; Kosch, 3rd edition; Nagl – Zeidler – Castle 3, pp. 929f .; Lexicon of the Catholic German Poets ..., arr. by F. Wienstein, 1899; M. Feichtlbauer, in: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. 57, 1917, p. 178ff .; Kurt Adel: Nobility, Spirit and Reality (1967)