Karl Dorn

Karl Dorn OSB (* in Amberg ; † October 20, 1537 in Metten ) was a German Benedictine and abbot of the Lower Bavarian Metten Monastery .

biography

Karl Dorn came from a poor family in the town of Amberg in the Upper Palatinate. Nevertheless, because of his talent, he was sent to Regensburg to study. Then he entered the Benedictine monastery in Metten. Here he was elected abbot on February 26, 1535. The election was confirmed on March 13 of the same year by the Bishop of Regensburg.

The German poet and humanist Kaspar Brusch praised Abbot Karl Dorn von Metten as a man of impeccable character and as a learned promoter of science and art ( vir candidus et integer, omniumque eruditione aliqua commendabilium fautor et Maecenas summus ). Karl Dorn wrote a story about the origins of the Reformation, but it has not been preserved ( Synopsis de ortu et progressu lutheranae heareseos ). He may also be the author of a history of the Duchy of Bavaria, the manuscript of which came to the central library in Munich during the secularization .

literature

• Wilhelm Fink : History of the development of the Benedictine abbey Metten. Vol. 1: The profession book of the abbey (= studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1). Munich 1927, p. 31
• Maurus Gandershofer : The merits of the Benedictines of Metten in the care of the sciences and the arts. A remembrance dedicated to the former residents of this monastery . Landshut 1841, p. 13
• Michael Kaufmann: Chronicle of Metten Abbey 766–2016 , St. Ottilien 2016, pp. 214–216
• Rupert Mittermüller : The Metten Monastery and its Aebte . Straubing 125-127

predecessor	Office	successor
Wolfgang II. Häberl	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1535–1537	Leonhard Artmayr