Kajetan grate

Kajetan Rost OSB (born November 11, 1748 in Bamberg ; † February 16, 1804 there ) was a German Benedictine , university professor and from 1796/1799 until his death in 1804 abbot of Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg.

Life

Kajetan Rost was born in Bamberg on November 11, 1748, entered the Benedictine order, where he made his profession on September 14, 1767 . Rost, who studied at the University of Bamberg and completed his studies with the Dr. theol. graduated, was then ordained a priest in 1771 and was subsequently Kastner , office director and then prior . From 1783 to 1786 he also appeared as a teacher of church history at his alma mater .

After the then coadjutor Franz Stöhr passed away, Rost was elected abbot (coadjutor) of Michelsberg Abbey on March 30, 1796. His blessing but he only received less than a month after the death of his predecessor Gallus Brockard . From May 26, 1799 until his own death on February 16, 1804, he was the last abbot of the Michelsberg monastery in Bamberg. After the burden of billeting (1796–1801), which was very oppressive for the monastery, in which Rost managed to slowly reduce the debt it had taken on, the property of the monastery was confiscated by the Bavarian troops towards the end of 1802 and the end of the monastery was heralded.

A short time after the dissolution of his monastery, Rost died on February 16, 1804 at the age of 55 in Bamberg.

literature

August Lindner: The writer and deserved to science and art members of the Benedictine order in what is now the Kingdom of Bavaria . Regensburg 1880, p. 190 .

Web links

• Kajetan Rost in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)